A Foreshadowing Of Evil: Kurt Schlichter's "The Attack"

Good Wednesday, all.

I don’t usually do book reviews, but I believe in recognizing good work when I come across it. You may or may not be familiar with Kurt Schlichter. He’s a retired Army Colonel, attorney, author and columnist over at Townhall.com. For the record, I don’t know Mr. Schlichter, have never met him, I don’t represent him in any way, nor do I personally profit from recommending his works. But I think his latest offering deserves to be read by those of us worried about the future of our nation.

His latest novel, “The Attack,” has just recently been released. It’s what I would describe as historical-speculative fiction, in that it’s told as a series of interviews with individuals who were involved or witnessed the events being written about, an event that has not come to pass (though I fear it might one day).

I don’t want to give away too much of the story. But the basic premise of the book is a recollection of taking what happened in Israel on October 7th, and transplanting it into the US, except on a nationwide scale and over multiple days. The events come to be known as The Attack. All of the depravity, all of the butchery that the world witnessed on that day is rained down on the US. The book is not some gore fest, but Schlichter doesn’t hold back on spelling out the evils visited on unprepared Americans that, in hindsight, are able to see the seeds that were planted that led to the events of The Attack.

But as I have gotten deeper into the book, I found myself getting increasingly angry at what’s been done to our country for the last three years. Anyone with their eyes open, who’s recognized the intentional threat being let across our border through the collaboration between the “Biden” White House, global elites and corrupt Third World governments realizes the very real possibility of the events in Schlichter’s book actually coming to pass. Throw in countries and terrorist groups who hate us, and you’ve got the recipe for disaster.

I still can’t get over what the Supreme Court did this week over the issue of “Biden” trying to tear down the razor wire that Texas has installed along the border. I knew Chief Justice John Roberts would be a squish on the issue, but I’m still surprised that Justice Amy Coney Barrett chose to side with the three Obama/Biden whack-job leftists in greenlighting the Border Patrol to resume cutting away Texas’ border protection efforts.

But then again, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised by Barrett’s betrayal. Matt Walsh had a good opinion piece today over at The Daily Wire that recounted some of the times that Barrett has sided with the Court’s leftists. She’s voted against so-called ghost guns, rejected a challenge to Illinois’ ban on “assault rifles,” blocked a challenge to Indiana University’s mandate that all students and staff must be vaccinated against Covid. She even supported the State of Illinois using its police powers enshrined in the Constitution to compel lockdowns and shutter businesses and schools in the name of public health. But, if Barrett is so concerned about public health, as Walsh points out, then what logic is there in allowing in millions of unvaccinated illegals carrying any number of Third World diseases into our country?

The last time I checked, the Constitution pretty clearly lays out the roles and responsibilities of the federal government, and one of those is to control not only immigration, but to prevent invasion as well of every state in the Union. But if the federal government refuses to enforce its own laws that it’s charged with enforcing, then what are the states supposed to do? If Barrett was touted as some kind of strict Constitutionalist when she was nominated by President Trump, shouldn’t she be able to reason out that an intentional failure in one part of the Constitution demands an opposite response from the States?

But it goes beyond the poor decisions being made by those on the Court. Those who are facilitating the illegals being here are evil; those within our borders who are helping them along are just plain stupid, craven and self-serving.

History is full of nations and empires that have faced threats from outsiders who’ve been able to infiltrate and undermine their society; history also has many examples of those on the inside being willing to sell out their nation, their fellow citizens, for a few pieces of silver or a longer time period of getting to hold the reins of power. Right now, that’s what the US is facing. The global elitists hate us because we represent the last fortress against their wished-for world domination. The Islamic terrorists hate us because they despise our Western culture and its perceived permissiveness. And our so-called leaders are ready and willing to facilitate letting God-only-knows-who into the country because they’re convinced that the millions of illegals that they’re letting in will vote Democratic for the next ten generations. Two exterior groups that hate us and one interior group that’s willing to let the country our parents and grandparents built be destroyed as long as they get to sit on top of the rubble at the end.

And it’s the collaboration amongst this Axis of Evil that ultimately sparks the events detailed in “The Attack.” One “interview” with a surviving terrorist even has him crowing about how easy it was to get into the US under “Biden,” how “his” policies helped to sow the seeds of the events in the book. “Biden” and his masters can’t think beyond the immediate perceived benefit of importing millions of presumed Democratic voters with no forethought about the long-term effects on those who will be most affected by these policies. And they’re arrogant enough to think the dangers that they’re letting walk in will never touch them or anyone they care about.

Like Sirius Black said in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” the devils are inside the walls. And thanks to “Biden,” we’re all suffering for it already; and if Schlichter’s fiction turns to fact, we’ll be missing the days when the worst thing in recent memory was 9/11.

Thanks for reading.