Sebastian Gorka: A War Cannot be Won Without Admitting What You’re Fighting

“You cannot kill your way out of this war. You cannot use Predators to destroy an ideology. That’s the bottom line.”

The Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda share the same strategic objectives, and yet the Obama administration refuses to admit the danger posed by befriending the former. Such willful blindness will make it impossible for the US to defeat the jihadists, warns Sebastian Gorka of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

In an interview with Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio, Gorka explains that the desire to be rid of dictators in the Middle East and Northern Africa is leading to an acceptance of the Muslim Brotherhood that completely ignores its use of opportunities to “strengthen their call for Shariah law, for fundamentalism, for autocracy”—just like Al Qaeda does.

Besides their similarity of goals, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda also share overlapping membership, with all the top Al Qaeda members historically having been members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Gorka believes that the only way to defeat the jihadist ideology of the two groups is to provide counter narratives of the world for their members to turn to. Yet without recognizing that its enemies are in fact motivated by ideology, the United States is unable to provide alternative ideas, and ultimately will be unsuccessful against the jihadists.