Posted on 08/21/2014 5:59:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- U.S. airstrikes that have helped Iraqi and Kurdish forces recapture a strategic dam and halt, at least temporarily, the advance of ISIS terrorists on the Kurdish capital of Erbil are a welcome pushback against a relentless enemy that for a time seemed invincible. But it may be of no more strategic significance than Jimmy Doolittle's bombing run against Japan in World War II. Doolittle's raid gave a psychological boost to the United States, but it had to be followed by much sterner stuff before victory was achieved.
Just as Japan and Germany were once threats to free people, so are Islamic fanatics by whatever label they wear. The beheading of James Foley, an American photojournalist, and a threat to behead a second American kidnapped by ISIS fighters is only the latest of numerous atrocities perpetrated by these fanatics.
Writing in National Review Online, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says: "Allowing the Islamic State and its jihadist leaders to maintain their newly established caliphate in the heart of the Middle East is a national security threat to the United States and to our allies in the region."
While airstrikes, a new government in Baghdad that may, or may not fulfill President Obama's call for "inclusiveness," and support for Kurdish and other forces battling ISIS, are all helpful, something more is needed. An international coalition of armies must be created to fight and defeat ISIS. While the U.S. and Britain might help assemble it, the coalition should be led by the Kurds and Muslim nations. If ISIS and the other fanatics don't represent true Islam, the "moderates" should take the lead in restoring not only their good name, but a semblance of order. President Obama needs to say that victory is, in fact, the goal. Our enemies are certainly fighting to win.
Echoing Sen. Rubio is British Prime Minister David Cameron, who wrote for The Sunday Telegraph that what ISIS is doing in Iraq and Syria affects us all and "we have no choice but to rise to the challenge" in defeating it. "If we do not act to stem the onslaught of this exceptionally dangerous terrorist movement," he added, "it will only grow stronger until it can target us on the streets of Britain."
In fact, the preliminary "targeting" is already happening. The Mail Online reports that ISIS supporters recently distributed leaflets on Oxford Street in London. They want people to abandon Britain and join the new Islamic state. Posters declared "the dawn of a new era has begun."
Scotland Yard says it's investigating to see whether any anti-terror laws were broken. If not, new laws should be passed. This is sedition and any nation that tolerates sedition aids in its own demise. If these seditionists are aliens, they should be deported; if they are citizens, they should be arrested.
More straight talk from Prime Minister Cameron: "...this threat cannot simply be removed by airstrikes alone. We need a tough, intelligent and patient long-term approach that can defeat the terrorist threat at (its) source."
The "source" is Islamism and because it is an amalgam of religious and political doctrines, people regarded as infidels and deserving of death (that would be us) do not have enough diplomats or UN resolutions to dissuade them and so they must be eliminated or subjugated.
Cameron said Britain has recently strengthened its Immigration Act "to deprive naturalized Britons of their citizenship if they are suspected of being involved in terrorist activities." He should advocate the same for native born Britons who are being radicalized. Mosques that preach hatred of Christians, Jews and the West should be closed and their imams deported or arrested. People who travel on British, American, or European Union passports to places where they participate in terrorism should be denied re-entry into their respective countries.
As Cameron correctly noted, "We are in the middle of a generational struggle against a poisonous and extreme ideology, which I believe we will be fighting for the rest of my political lifetime."
Longer, if we don't fight to win.
Seems that the “JV” team that Obama laughed off has suddenly upped its game. How could this be? /sarc
Greenfield: What is Wrong with ISIS, is What is Wrong with Islam
Sultan Knish blog ^ | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield
“The religious and ethnic strife in the Middle East out of which ISIS emerged and which has become its brand, goes back over a thousand years. If support for terrorism emerges from radicalization, then the armies of Islam were radicalized in the time of Mohammed and have never been de-radicalized. “
“Terrorism is not reactive. As ISIS has shown us, it has a vision for the future. The Caliphate, like the Reich, is a utopia which can only be created through the mass murder and repression of all those who do not belong. This isn’t a new vision. It’s the founding vision of Islam.
“What is wrong with ISIS is what is wrong with Islam.”
“We can defeat ISIS, but we should remember that its roots are in the hearts of the Sunni Muslims who have supported it. ISIS and Al Qaeda are only symptoms of the larger problem. “
Excerpt, go to the link below for the oped.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3195009/posts
When, A U.S. President is a Sunni/Muslim Brotherhood IS Member, bad stuff happens in the Middle East and around the world.
Now, we have an excellent insight into cui bono, or who benefits from all of the past lies and bs about what has happened and is happening in Arab/Islamo lands.
This should be read by any us with questions about what has happened and is happening in the Arab lands.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/08/u-s-president-muslim-brotherhood/
No offense here...
but is that a foreign country protesting Obama? Demanding WE stop ISIS?
Maybe...just maybe...they should put down the banner and join the fight.
It might just be me this morning, but I’m really tired of these foreigners expecting us to save them. It is time to put your own kids, blood, sweat, and tears on the line.
Are you noticing how LITTLE hard reporting, reports by people on the scene is being done by the American MSM. The MSM is simply publishing the Public Relations Handouts and recorded clips the ObamaSluts (male & female).
Guess I better check out the Israeli and European news outlets.
From the article:
> If these seditionists are aliens, they should be deported;
> if they are citizens, they should be arrested.
They should be promptly slathered in bacon grease and executed by firing squad. Their bodies should then be cremated in pig fat.
“An international coalition of armies must be created to fight and defeat ISIS.”
Nothing strikes fear into the souls of an adversary like the words “international coalition”.
While I agree with Cal’s opinion on this in general terms, he needs a little work on some of his sugggestions....
“Cameron said Britain has recently strengthened its Immigration Act “to deprive naturalized Britons of their citizenship if they are suspected of being involved in terrorist activities.” He should advocate the same for native born Britons who are being radicalized. Mosques that preach hatred of Christians, Jews and the West should be closed and their imams deported or arrested. “
Sure, but we don’t do any of this here, so why does Cal say the Brits should do it without saying we should?
“People who travel on British, American, or European Union passports to places where they participate in terrorism should be denied re-entry into their respective countries”
That’s a bit ridiculous - what does he mean by that? Name a country in the world where there aren’t reported places where there is supposed training of terrorists, including here.
Captin O'blivious.
You're
> The “source” is Islamism
Let’s be honest.
The source is ISLAM!!
According to Islamic teaching, the bloody sand pirate, mrderer, torturer, rapist, slave-trader, pedophile, genocidal savage Mohammed is the “perfect man” to be emulated by all “true” Moslems.
bttt
There’s a McDonald’s and American cars in the photo, so looks more like the U.S.
I can’t quite tell ...the article is from Belfast?
I’m wondering if Cal was vacationing there or something when he wrote it?
Our fearless leader thinks that you can make nice with the bearded ones. Don’t call them names. Prosecute anyone who insults them. Go easy on the bearded ones when they commit an act of terrorism.
That policy is wrong. After 5 years of making nice with the bearded savages, they still hate us. They will never like us. They will always try to kill us.
The only policy, dear fearless leader, is to wipe them out from the face of the earth. Have no fear. The media and history will go easy on you and turn you into a hero. (If you wipe them out you WILL BE a hero.) If you were a Republican you would be called hitler for wiping them out, so take advantage of your party affiliation and wipe the subhuman bearded savages out from the face of the earth.
I agree with you completely because these alien seditionists are not just illegal aliens who came in with the other illegals from Mexico and Central America over the fence, but terrorists who came in through the tunnels from Mexico where there was no chance of them getting caught that they should be slathered in bacon grease and executed.
In case you haven’t noticed the ISIS threat does not just concern the US but does other countries to.
That is what I am thinking
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