From the last Morning Jolt of the week:

Fewer Islamists Freely Roam the Streets of Europe This Morning
Good morning — and in many ways, it is a good morning. Always better to hear about sleeper cells of terrorists being arrested than sleeper cells of terrorists being activated.
Dozens of terror suspects were arrested in Belgium, France, and Germany early Friday, a day after Belgian authorities said that they halted a plot to attack police officers by mere hours.
Eric Van der Sypt, a Belgian federal magistrate, told a news conference Friday in Brussels that 13 people had been detained in Belgium in connection with the plot, with another two arrested in neighboring France. He added that a dozen searches had led to the discovery of four military-style weapons including Kalashnikov assault rifles.
On Thursday, Belgian police had moved against a suspected terrorist hideout in the eastern town of Verviers. In the ensuing firefight, two terror suspects were killed, while a third was wounded and arrested.
At the time, officials said the militant group targeted in the raid included some who had returned from Syria. Authorities have previously said 300 Belgian residents have gone to fight with extremist Islamic formations in Syria; it is unclear how many have returned.
. . . Meanwhile, French police arrested at least 12 people in anti-terrorism raids in three towns around Paris, the city prosecutor’s office said early Friday.
Also Friday, Berlin police said that they had taken two men into custody on suspicion that they were recruiting fighters and procuring equipment and funding for the Islamic State group, better known as ISIS, in Syria.
The two were picked up in a series of raids involving the search of 11 residences by 250 police officers. Authorities said the raids were part of a months-long investigation into a small group of extremists based in Berlin. However, they also said there was no evidence the group was planning attacks inside Germany.
Raids and a serious effort to root out the Islamist radicals returning from the Middle East could be the silver lining to the abominable attacks in Paris.
I’m thinking of a little anecdote from Tony Robbins:
“Confidence and competence is not the same thing,” Robbins tells SUCCESS, following his return from a recent seminar tour through Australia and India. “No one should go into their garden and chant, ‘There are no weeds. There are no weeds. There are no weeds.’ For people to be true leaders, they have to first see things as they are, not worse. Then see it better than it is, and then make it the way you see it.
Seeing a problem is not really a bad thing; if you see a problem, you can deal with it. If you see the weeds, you can pick the weeds. One of the worst and most dangerous circumstances is to have a problem and to not see it, or to walk around with a false sense of security that a problem has been solved.
Which brings us to Jonah’s latest bit of brilliance:
The Obama administration seems to believe that the wonder-working power of their words can get everyone to stop believing their lying eyes and ears. It’s tempting to ask, “How stupid do they think we are?” But the more relevant question is, “How stupid do they think the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are?” Whatever appeal the Islamic State may or may not have in the larger Muslim world, Barack Obama insisting “it is not Islamic” surely makes no difference whatsoever. And as for the jihadists, it’s not like his words speak louder than his drone strikes.
It’s true that the Obama administration has had remarkable success playing word games. They “created or saved” millions of jobs — as if that was a real economic metric. (For what it’s worth, I do or save 500 pushups every morning). They decimated “core al-Qaeda,” with the tautological definition of “core al-Qaeda” being “the parts of al-Qaeda that we have decimated.”
But this is different. Those distortions were political buzzphrases intended for domestic consumption and a reelection campaign. This is a much bigger deal. The threat of Islamic extremism transcends Obama’s theological hubris and lexicological shenanigans. All that Obama’s insipid rhetorical gamesmanship does is send the signal to friend and foe alike that he can’t or won’t see the problem for what it is.
Not only does Obama not see the problem for what it is, he behaves as if he doesn’t want us to think of it as much of a problem at all. Look at what Obama has spent the past few days talking about: Faster broadband. Methane emissions. Mandating paid sick days. It’s as if he wants to talk about everything except the guys who have infiltrated Europe and no doubt, the United States as well, who are planning terror attacks.