As France was gathering its dead, dying, and maimed from the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where last week Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel careened over victims in his white lorry, Andrew C. McCarthy reminded readers of Hillary’s foremost concern in the face of terrorist attacks:

“Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.”

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 19, 2015

On social media, supporters of Islamic State cheered the truck attack.

From NRO’s Andrew McCarthy:

I know, I know: you’re just relieved that she didn’t find a video to blame this time. Still, Clinton’s remarks are criminally stupid. So much so, they overwhelm even the criminal recklessness for which the FBI has just given her a pass on felony charges. She clearly mishandled mounds of classified information, but it appears doubtful that she read much of it. Or maybe she did read it but learned nothing from it, since politicizing intelligence and purging the Islam from Islamic terrorism is strict Obama-Clinton policy.

Contrary to White House blather, people do not commit mass-murder attacks because of economic privation or over trifling slights. They commit it because they are seized by commands that they take to be divine injunctions rooted in scripture, their devotion to which will determine whether paradise or eternal damnation awaits.

… we don’t believe in much of anything anymore, we discount the pull of ideology. But everything about this enemy, from the pecking order of its leaders to its ruthless methods, from the targets it chooses to the ends it seeks, is all about ideology — fiercely held by its adherents because it is scripturally based. If we don’t face up to the fact that ideology is the core of the challenge we face — that we do not have the luxury of ignoring ideology until after it catalyzes murderous action — we cannot defend ourselves.

July 16 marked the one-year anniversary of the terror attacks in Chattanooga, Tenn. David French in NRO points out:

In the year since Chattanooga, America has suffered more than double the number of domestic-terror casualties it suffered in the previous fourteen years going back to 9/11. In the last 18 months in France alone, terrorists have killed 236 innocent civilians and wounded 588. And these numbers don’t include the casualties suffered by fellow NATO allies Belgium and Turkey.

So expect the terror attacks to continue, if not escalate. So long as jihadist safe havens remain abroad and large numbers of extremists live in the West, we’re only a half-step away from seeing actual urban guerilla warfare in Europe’s great cities. Weak horses don’t win wars.

On social media, supporters of Islamic State cheered the truck attack.