This is from 2013, so I guess if you wanted to defend her, you could say it was six years ago and she’s had a chance to learn, grow and change.

Have you seen anything from her since she burst on the scene to suggest that’s actually happened?

Didn’t think so.

Apparently Omar thinks “America” and “Britain” should be described in the same ominous tones as “Al Qaeda” and “Hezbollah,” or rather, that none of them should be described that way because the whole thing is a big joke. Watch for yourself and then we’ll talk more:

A recently discovered video shows @IlhanMN mocking Americans for their anxiety about al-Qaeda, equating US armed forces to al-Qaeda and Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/VBuKhAHjjE — The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) April 11, 2019

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This comes on the heels of her describing the 9/11 hijackers as “some people who did something” and then getting into a very public Twitter debate with Dan Crenshaw over it, and Rob told you all about that. And really, the two go together perfectly well. Why would you get all worked up about some people who did something? That’s all they were, right?

You silly Americans are such idiots for fearing this bogeyman.

What’s really remarkable about this is not that she thinks this way or expressed it as such. This is completely consistent with everything we’ve seen of her since she was elected to Congress. She is flip and condescending. She thinks she understands things you don’t, and she’s completely dismissive of your moral objections to the things that terrify you. All this was painfully obvious before her pronouncements of this week, or the discovery of this video.

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No, what’s really remarkable is the fact that, even six years ago, she felt perfectly safe expressing herself this way in a videotaped interview. Now granted, she probably did not envision herself at that time running for Congress, and it looks like one of those cable-access kinds of shows that seven people watch. But clearly, Omar expects her beliefs and attitudes to be acceptable at least among the limited left-wing audience that’s watching, and why wouldn’t she?

This has pretty much been the left’s attitude toward terrorism since about two years after 9/11: American overreacted, America is just as bad, America provoked it by supporting Israel, more people die from falls in the bathtub than from terrorism, most terrorists are white Christians, etc. You’ve heard all this.

So now we’ve got two members of Congress completely willing to express these ideas publicly (don’t forget Rashida Tlaib) and you’ve got a media not very willing to call her out because she’s a Trump antagonist and they need to protect those. But we should pay attention: This is basically the way the left thinks about terrorism, and they’re perfectly willing to stand behind an anti-Semite terrorism apologist like Omar because she more or less carries their water.