NEW YORK NEXT? – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:  As a New Yorker, I take this very seriously.  A new ISIS video mentions Washington as being on their target list, but John McCain is warning New York.  The warning is reasonable.  ISIS would love to best Al Qaeda, its rival, in an operation in New York.  From Newsmax: 

New York City could be the next terror target, Arizona Sen. John McCain warns in a radio interview on Sunday.

Following the Paris attacks on Friday that left 129 dead and 352 wounded, McCain blamed President Barack Obama's "failed, feckless foreign policy" for placing "the world in more crises than any time since World War II," McCain told John Catsimatidis, host of "The Cats Roundtable" on AM 970 in New York.

"I am sure that [Abu Bakr al] Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS (the Islamic State), has already told some of these young men, go into the refugee flow and call us when you get to Berlin, New York, Paris, wherever it is," McCain said.

Officials believe ISIS is responsible for the coordinated attack in Paris, and at least one of the attackers is thought to have entered Europe as a Syrian refugee. That has led New York Rep. Pete King and presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, both U.S. senators, to call for the halt to the influx of Syrian refugees into the United States.

McCain said the United States must be "very, very careful ... Our hearts go out to them, but we can’t endanger the security of the United States of America."

And there's this, from CIA Director Brennan, by way of the Washington Examiner:

Terrorists are getting better at hiding their plans from global intelligence agencies and it's important to find new ways to thwart their plans, CIA Director John Brennan said Monday.

"I do hope that this is going to be a wake-up call," he said during a talk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' annual Global Security Forum. "This is not the only operation that [the Islamic State] has in the pipeline."

Though Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and injured more than 350 appeared to have been planned weeks or months in advance and were preceded by warnings that the Islamic State was planning to strike in Europe or the United States, the plotters were able to take advantage of technologies and policies that shielded their efforts from detection by intelligence agencies, he said.

"Their operational security really is quite strong," he said.

COMMENT:  Repeat after me:  "Forget this.  The real problem is global warming."  Now you're thinking Washington.

It's a pretty grim picture.  ISIS has turned out to be a sophisticated, first-class terror operation, only a year after Field Marshal Obama described them as the junior varsity.

November 16, 2015