What happened in Orlando was clearly “part of a military assault,” implicating forces of global jihad. Philip Mudd, formerly of the CIA and a commentator on CNN Sunday morning, pushed back against efforts to equate the Orlando killings and the Paris massacre: “Don’t compare this to Paris yet. Because of this, Orlando can become “a cudgel for gun control” or a “cudgel to clamp down on terrorism.”Is there any way out? He demanded that President Obama must “stop the political correctness” in a response that hadn’t yet been made. Fingerpointing was on full display in the early hours of the reporting on the United States’ most deadly mass shooting.

Source: National Post June 13, 2016 01:07 UTC