Appearing as a guest on Monday's CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, CNN National Security Analyst Juliette Kayyem used tortured liberal logic to argue that, if the U.S. bars immigrants from Muslim countries, that it would actually make America less safe, not only because it "helps" the "right wing" in Europe, but also because it "gives a sentiment or a statement to ISIS that we are what they think we are," as if ISIS might admire America more if the U.S. takes in refugees fleeing ISIS in the first place.
She also asserted that "we certainly don't want" right wing governments to "rise" in Europe because "that's not going to be good for the long-term effort to fight ISIS."
At about 11:32 p.m., when host Don Lemon turned to Kayyem for her to address the issue of restricting immigration from Muslim countries, the CNN analyst began:
No one has a monopoly on what will make America safe and secure, so I just want to give you my opinion from the security perspective, which is if you compare the United States to Europe, the one thing that makes this country relatively safe -- we don't have a relatively extreme radicalization process. We have a problem here in the U.S., but it's nothing like what they're facing in Europe. The one element that has made this country sort of an unradicalized country is its assimilation and its acceptance of others, including immigrant communities, through our history.
Then came her flaky analysis of how a right wing approach to the terrorism threat would make things worse:
And so there is a consequence for us to say we're going to close our door to a particular group of people -- and, oh, by the way, they happen to be Muslim. It helps the right wing in Europe, and we certainly don't want them to rise because that's not going to be good for the long-term effort to fight ISIS. And it gives a sentiment or a statement to ISIS that we are what they think we are.
Kayyem then concluded:
So, from the security standpoint, if I'm thinking long-term, I know we're all sort of nervous about what's going on, but thinking, taking the long view here, the one thing that makes America safe is the fact that we do assimilate these communities. We don't go to war with them. Compare that to France and Europe which really have a truly home-grown problem. That's my two cents.
