The answer involves a “courageous fighter” willing to smuggle “four pounds of anthrax in a suitcase” over the U.S. border with Mexico, and then “spread this confetti” in American population centers: “9/11 will be small change in comparison.”

This scenario is outlined by a Kuwaiti scholar and political activist who goes by the name of al-Nafisi. A lecture by him has been translated by our friends at MEMRI. They also have provided me with a bit of background on him: He has studied in Cairo, at the American University of Beirut, and he received his doctorate from Churchill College in Cambridge. He has been a visiting professor at Exeter University in England. In the 1990s he served as a political advisor to the head of the Kuwaiti Parliament. He is not known to be a member of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, or Hamas but, as you’ll see, he — and his audience — are partial to such groups.

Watch this video — it is chilling. And then let’s talk some more about whether we need to control our country’s borders; whether a serious war is being waged against us; about what to call this enemy; and whether these are people with whom we can sit down and reason.

I wonder if Pat Oliphant would be willing to watch this and whether it would influence his thinking. Probably not.