I have no doubt that radicalized Muslims have come into the US across the Mexican border. I have no doubt that at some point in the future there will be some kind of attack. Sure, we are the ones who pissed them off in the first place, but nevertheless, I am fairly certain they are already here and will attack at some point, either by dribs and drabs, in groups, or all at once. Sure it's a consequence of our own (national) stupidity, but it doesn't change the logic of it. If I were in the 'radicalized caliphate' proponents shoes, I would have spent the last decade stacking my people up in the US, and when I needed to do something that the US would find particularly objectionable, push the red button and set chaos loose. It's not even the best strategy, but it is one that I am most likely to pick in light of the organizational problems with radicalized Islam.
I would be
more surprised, strategically, if they were not already over here by the gross. If it looks like we are actually going to back off of the police state, their attack will likely be right around the corner. Their aim to prevent the US from reobtaining liberty and prosperity, because extinguishing our prosperity will bankrupt us and leave our tanks empty on the field of battle, and taking our freedom is just some kind of petty revenge. Just because the bad guys are acknowledging the existence of a threat doesn't necessarily automatically mean the threat is fake. I can totally acknowledge that our foreign policy is to blame for radicalizing the people who want to hurt us, while at the same time recognizing that there are actually people out there who want to hurt us.
Truth be told, if there were
not 'sleepers' in the US right now, then our 'enemies' would be strategic imbeciles, according to their own stated goals and plans. I would rather not underestimate them, and so I will assume that they are not imbeciles. I reckon there are already radicalized Muslims in the US, that many of them are 'passing' as illegal Mexicans (minus the added vulnerability of having to work), and that we will hear from them at some point in the future.
I also think it is important to account for reality, because if we go around saying "this is all fake" and then something happens and it was not fake, then we lose credibility. As an intelligence analyst, I would have said, "It could happen this way, or it could happen that way. Here are the indicators it will happen this way, and there are the indicators that it will happen that way."
Problem here, is there aren't much in the way of 'indicators' excepting stories like Quran and prayer shawls left south of the border, which could easily be real as it could be a practical joke by an imaginative Mexican. Chatter indicating a growing relationship between radicalized Muslims and Mexican cartels are another indicator that was tripped about a year ago iirc. The known-verified existence of radicalized Muslim militia training camps in places like Clover, SC is another pretty strong indicator, although the ones who sneak across the border likely wouldn't be caught dead near one of the known militia camps.
There is just too much to indicate that this threat is real to dismiss it out of hand as if it were fictitious. Mind you, that doesn't change the fact that the threat is a direct consequence of blowback, nor does it posit as a solution a more militarized police force. The actual solution would be to empower the citizenship in general to the regular and irregular militias of the United States, and equip and train the people at large to defend against such things without government help. Then whenever governments do arrive, the situation will already be well in hand, and so we can cut their equipment budgets in half.
