While America is distracted by Cracker Barrel’s off again-on again relationship with Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson—and A&E has embraced capitalism, for now, running a DD marathon just in time for Christmas—other, sinister news is afoot. As Ambassador Susan Rice continues her intransigent attempts to convince us we’ve suffered no successful terrorist attacks on American soil since 9/11, and that NSA officials didn’t really lie, they just “inadvertently made false representations,” Radical Islamists are promising—not threatening, but promising—attacks on New York City and Washington D.C.

In a video produced by Umar Media for Pakistan’s most dangerous terrorist group, Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), the group assures viewers it will wage jihad within the United States, and includes a map with animated bomb strikes on major U.S. cities. The video also encourages other Muslims—particularly those living in NATO countries—to follow its lead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVSIUPH6hyg

According to a translation, the video says:

“[W]hatever skills you have, whether you be a Muslim living in a NATO country, or Muslims living in Iraq, New York, or Washington, we invite them to study Islam, recite the Koran, look at its orders, then come to the mujahideen and we will train you, stand in our ranks,” it says.

“After taking training from us, reach every corner of the world, open a front in your region, rise up, the ranks are there, leaders are there; and under the leadership of our Emir-ul-Momineen Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid the mujahideen or the entire world are agreed and united, you too rise up for the establishment of caliphate.”

“I urge you to think—begin jihad against NATO countries, Americans and their allies in their own cities, in their own regions,” it adds. “Whatever skills you may have, whether he be an engineer, into electronics, chemical expert, or of intellectual and logical skills, we invite them to think….”

TTP claims responsibility for ordering the attempted car bombing of Times Square in 2010, as well as successfully planning the 2009 attack on a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan, resulting in the worst assault in CIA history with the deaths of seven CIA officers. The FBI says it is aware of the TTP video, and touts the group as dangerous but, it insists, mostly within the confines of Pakistan’s own borders, where it has successfully struck local targets. But the group appears to be “fracturing.”

A U.S. official told The Blaze, “TTP aspires to conduct attacks against the West, but the group is much more capable of striking local targets in Pakistan, where TTP is principally focused. However, if a Western passport holder—someone like Times Square bomber Faisal Shazhad—were to approach the group and offer his services, the TTP probably wouldn’t turn him away.”

Bank on it. We have witnessed that while the various intelligence agencies were overly fixated on their fellow Americans—Tea Partiers come to mind—terrorists like Nidal Hasan and the Tsarnaev brothers have successfully attacked us on our own soil despite the false assertions otherwise by Ms. Rice. All three were on the radar.

While our “leaders” continue to kowtow to Radical Islam—sending our tax dollars and the very weapons they’d confiscate from us, if they had their way, into the hands of those who desire nothing more than to see us all exterminated and an Islamic Caliphate installed—Radical Islam persists in its plan to wage jihad on the West. This is not a game. The open borders policy that the prostrate Barack Obama is mandating are not seeping only with Mexican and other South American nationals invading our nation, but also increasingly with Radical Islamists. They don’t want to chat; they don’t want to assimilate. They are hell bent on killing us. All of us. That includes you, appeasers from all political ideologies. The jihad is not coming to America. It’s already here. The only thing we can do now is prepare for the inevitable.