Neoconservative hawks and requisite jihad watchers on the Right have been sounding the alarm on the coming “Islamofascist” invasion at the country’s southern border since 9/11.
Now they see an opportunity to exploit the growing intensity of the immigration issue within the Tea Party movement and among Red State Republicans in order to advance their own agenda, which is, as Newt Gingrich said last month, a “long struggle against radical Islamists” or simply put, an ideological, if not armed, conflict with Iran, Islam and the greater Arab world.
But will this new political gambit work – or is it as desperate as the war hawks have become, trying to keep our giant military boot print firmly planted in the Middle East?
“The hysteria over terrorism infiltration on the border … is an attempt to merge and consolidate the prejudices of some conservatives and Tea Party members whose agendas might not automatically overlap (anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant factions),” offered M. Junaid Levesque-Alam, who writes and publishes the Crossing the Crescent blog.
