According to Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Senior Director of Counterterrorism for the National Security Council, terrorists around the world were able to prosper under President Biden. Now that President Trump is back in the White House, however, the United States is quickly and efficiently bringing global terrorism to heel.

From Breitbart. Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the Senior Director of Counterterrorism for the National Security Council (NSC) and a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, told Breitbart News in a lengthy exclusive interview at the White House that Trump has totally reframed how the United States approaches elimination of jihadist terrorists.

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“Let’s be clear—President Trump through his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and it’s not an accident for the first time in history a former Green Beret is the National Security Adviser, has done a 180 on our counterterrorism policy,” Gorka told Breitbart News. “Let me illustrate this by an incredible story that’s now declassified from the second week of the Trump administration. I’ve been going around the Intelligence Community, the Pentagon, our warfighters, trying to understand what happened the last four years. I was told a horrific story, especially those who are watching the bad guys 12 hours a day from our exquisite platforms, that they’d been tracking jihadis and not been allowed to do anything about it. The last administration, which was really on the side of the bad guys—if you look at the unleashing of the billions of dollars to Iran, if you look at the way they treated Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu—it was not interested in doing counterterrorism. In fact, they made it so difficult that if you wanted to take out an HVT, a high-value target, it had to go all the way up to the White House through the National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to the president, Joe Biden or to whoever was functioning with the auto-pen that day, and we thought this was insane. So Mike walked into the Oval Office with myself and with a member of my counterterrorism team in the NSC and we laid a map on the Resolute Desk of a cave complex in northern Somalia that was being used by ISIS and one of the ISIS terror groups’ key financiers, recruiters, and trainers. Mike informed the president we had been surveilling this base, this cave complex, for more than a year and a half. The president looked up from the Resolute Desk and said ‘what do you mean we’ve been watching them under Biden?’ We told him that’s exactly what happened. He said ‘kill them, and kill them now.’ With that big iconic sharpie pen he ticked the ‘go box’ on the operational orders … That’s how fast President Trump moves, and how decisive he is in taking the war to those who want to kill Americans.”

The interview, taped in mid-March at the White House in the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, was more than an hour long and in it Gorka went through in great detail four major actions Trump has already taken inside his first 100 days as president to turn the tide against radical Islamic terrorists. …

The four major actions are the strike Gorka begins to describe above that the president ordered in just his first couple weeks in office, which eliminated an ISIS recruiter hiding in a cave complex in Somalia, the capture of the mastermind behind the Abbey Gate bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) back in the summer of 2021 when then-President Joe Biden blew the U.S. withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan, a strike against an Islamic leader in Iraq, and now the most controversial of them all the president’s move to authorize the elimination of Houthis in Yemen who have been tormenting American and other ships undercutting free-flowing navigation in a region critical for global commerce. …

“Since [the first strike against the ISIS recruiter in Somalia], as you’ve seen, there have been multiple strikes in Iraq, in Syria, in Somalia, and then [in mid-March] the biggest military act the president has taken since the Inauguration, which is basically to allow naval traffic and freedom of passage through one of the most important commercial waterways in the world that has been held hostage by the Houthi jihadists of Yemen,” Gorka said. …

This interview was taped before the Atlantic magazine released the so-called Signal-gate messages, where that publication’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added inadvertently to a group chat among the senior-most members of President Trump’s administration in which they discussed details relating to the president’s decision to authorize these strikes. … Gorka also details several of what he calls “CT partners,” other nations that help the United States in counterterrorism, and what Trump expects of those partners.

“We call them ‘CT partners.’ We don’t put them in the same bucket as NATO allies—these are CT partners,” Gorka said, adding that the president expects more of U.S. partners and allies in his second term than he did in his first.

“Even more than eight years ago, the president expects our allies and our partners to step up to the plate,” Gorka continued. “People, especially the mainstream media, like to distort the phrase ‘America First’ and misrepresent it. America First is not America alone. President Trump is not an isolationist. … The fact is, we expect those who declare themselves to be friends, allies, and partners to do more in our collective interest. If you say you’re a partner, if you say you’re an ally, then behave like that. That’s why we see what the president says about NATO spending, for example.” …

Two major such “CT partners” that the U.S. national security officials met with the week this was recorded were, per Gorka, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Jordanians. Gorka said the UAE “can be of great assistance to us with regard to the Houthis and Al-Shabaab, as they’re very active in Africa in terms of investments,” and mentioned UAE’s signing of the Abraham Accords. …

As for the Jordanians, Gorka said, they are his favorite CT partner anywhere.

“As you know, I spent many years teaching counterterrorism for the Defense Department with our partners and with our allies,” Gorka said. “My favorite students outside of the U.S. military were the Jordanians. They are an incredibly, incredibly capable counterterrorism force. The King was one of the very first heads of state to come here after January the 20th.”

Gorka noted that after Trump crushed ISIS in a matter of a few months in his first term, the group’s remnants went into hiding but during Biden’s presidency it began to reconstitute. …

He pointed to multiple theaters, from the reemergence of Taliban leadership in Afghanistan to power vacuums in Africa to problems elsewhere throughout the Middle East fueled by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which funds various proxy groups like Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. …

When it comes to what he called the “circus of Iranian proxies,” Gorka said Hezbollah in Lebanon is “the crown jewel.”

“That’s the high end of the jihadi fighting force in terms of dedication, indoctrination, weapons. Hamas were always more of the foot soldiers, more of the expendable proxies for Iran,” Gorka said.

Gorka said the pager operation from Israel has brutally devastated Iran’s proxies in the region, and praised IDF and Mossad figures for their ingenuity, having spent years “seeding” the region with the pagers in what he called an “exquisite” operation. …

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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)