07.06.14 Why the White House Ignored All Those Warnings About ISIS Team Obama was told, over and over, that the Iraqi army couldn’t stop a terror group that was ready to pounce. But Washington was a prisoner to its paradox of an Iraq policy. On November 1, 2013, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited the White House, and made a rather stunning request. Maliki, who celebrated when the last U.S. troops left his country in 2011, asked Obama to quietly send the military back into Iraq and help his beleagured Air Force develop targets for air strikes; that’s how serious the threat from Sunni insurgents led by the extremist group ISIS had become.

Twelve days later, Brett McGurk, a deputy assistant secretary of state and the Obama administration’s senior U.S. official in Baghdad since the crisis began last month, presented to Congress a similarly dark warning. ISIS was launching upwards of 40 suicide bombers a month, he said, encouraged in part by the weakness of Maliki’s military and the aggressively anti-Sunni policies of the Shi’ite prime minister. It was the kind of ominous report that American intelligence agencies had been delivering privately for months.

McGurk added that ISIS had “benefited from a permissive operating environment due to inherent weaknesses of Iraqi security forces, poor operational tactics, and popular grievances, which remain unaddressed, among the population in Anbar and Nineweh provinces.”

I have a different theory, which is that the idea that man is so morally depraved that everything from spanking a child to war with another nation is a reality their mind just does not want to accept.

Bin Laden was too much a reminder of that reality so he could reluctantly be killed, but overall the liberal mind is so resistant to the reality of such evil, and in love with the fantasy that things like that were simply an aberration from man’s liberal goodness, as personified by them, and that there are no moral absolutes - Bush being even too much referring to such - that it refuses to deal with the latest example of man’s depravity until it is forced upon them, and which is often too little and too late, or choosing the wrong side. Or not knowing enough to let two evil sides alone.

In the 60’s thru drugs they sought a Garden of Eden, without God and His rule in which you just picked what you need from the government tree, then took over the administration building in their lust for power (”climbing up some other way”), to attempt to achieve a reality that only drugs and music could otherwise provide.

But what these secular seminaries turned out was a breed of souls who have largely taken over the administration building of the country by seducing a largely post-Christian populace to elect them with the delusion these pols are under, which normally one would have to be on hallucinogenic drugs to subscribe to. And which will turn the country into a Haight-Ashbury district of a sodomite francisco in the “summer of love.” And of course, provide need for more in the admin building to enforce their ideological vision of liberal Utopia, in which only the liberal elite can enjoy it at the expense of others. In a word, atheistic communism.

This is what happens when people turn from the living and true God to serve idols, silver and gold, mere pleasure and possessions, rather than putting the Lord and His kingdom first, by which blessings follow.

The focus of the true body of Christ is to look to Christ, and be in this world as He was, being a manifestly distinct people, presenting an alternative to a wicker and perverse generation, rather than institutionalized religion or longing for a return to Mayberry RFD.

Blessed be the Lord.

“Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.” (Hosea 8:3-4)

“I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.” (Hosea 8:12)

“For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.” (Hosea 8:14)

“For Israel hath forgotten his Maker...

Taint the only one to do so...

Mayflower Compact

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