Posted on 08/19/2014 2:55:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
U.S. officials are claiming that the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is "now a credible alternative to al Qaeda."
But what does that really mean in terms of ISIS' potential threat to the United States? After all, al Qaeda hasn't pulled off a successful attack in the States since 9/11, or indeed anywhere in the West since the London transportation bombings in 2005.
This month, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, criticized the airstrikes in Iraq ordered by President Barack Obama directed at ISIS as too limited, telling CNN's Candy Crowley, "That is simply a very narrow and focused approach to a problem which is metastasizing as we speak. Candy, there was a guy a month ago that was in Syria, went back to the United States, came back and blew himself up. We're tracking 100 Americans who are over there now fighting for ISIS. ISIS is attracting extreme elements from all over the world, much less the Arab world. And what have we done?"
The case McCain alluded to was that of Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, who grew up in Vero Beach, Florida, and who conducted a suicide bombing in Syria in May on behalf of the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate. According to The New York Times, Abu-Salha had returned to the United States after being trained by Nusra and then went back to Syria to conduct the suicide operation in which he died.
McCain asserted on CNN that 100 Americans were fighting with ISIS. In fact, according to U.S. officials, 100 is the total number of Americans believed to have fought or attempted to have fought with any of the many Syrian insurgent groups, some of which are more militant than others, and some of which are even aligned with the United States.
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Maybe if they mail the head to Obama it will get his attention but I doubt it.
Obama is acting like Emperor Leopold I of Vienna when we really need someone like King Jan III Sobieski of Poland.
When a Muslim army of 300,000 showed up at the gates on Vienna on September 11, 1683. Jan Sobieski with a force a third of that size kicked their butts all the way back to the cesspool they came from. Leopold didn’t think that the Muslims would actually attack Vienna.
There was a film based on this epic battle called “The Day of the Siege”; I think it’s currently playing on Netflix.
Charles Martel.
Charles Martel, Bammy is NOT.
Yes.
0bama abandoned Iraq, and ISIS took up the slack. 0bama even released the leader.
They’ll come here, via the Southern border. And they’ll get adherents here in the Muslim/Black Muslim population.
These people are conquerors. They won’t stop until they are stopped by force.
I propose that we error on the side of caution and liquidate as many islamists as we can manage. As a very wise woman once stated “let allah sort them out” !
CNN...’nuff said.
They really have to ask that? Open borders. Motivated killers. Ebola that is easy to collect and spread... Nah. Nothing to worry about.
Death squads and a death cult...that’s all there is to it...nothing more. Whatever ideas they have floating around in their numb skull heads that it’s something more than a death cult is straight out of the hell!
BTW...the Moderates may rise against this..though not in numbers for sure...but I won’t be buying it for a minute. No such thing as a moderate Muslim...and they’re even more dangerous than ISIS for fooling those they do think there’s moderates!
I thought Barry just said that ISIS was the “JV Team”?!? They been promoted to varsity now?
...”If I were anywhere near there and could do so, I’d leave”...
I was listening to some people talking about Ferguson who live just outside the community. They stated that even before the riots nobody would go there and avoided it at all costs for the violence etc. there.
BTW...the Moderates may rise against this..though not in numbers for sure...but I won’t be buying it for a minute. No such thing as a moderate Muslim...and they’re even more dangerous than ISIS for fooling those they do think there’s moderates!
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Like the good Germans, the moderate Moslims are irrelevant. All you need to know about Moslims is in all the videos about beheadings and torture worldwide.
Really, why take the chance? The SOBs said they are going to kill Americans, so why wait to see if they are serious? A threat like that, just assume they mean it AND TAKE OUT THE TRASH!
Good God, America has become emasculated.
any muslim who wants a worldwide caliphate is a threat to the usa. period.
next question.
Hey CNN, I would say the beheading of an American is really pretty real.
“ISIS: Is it really a threat to the U.S.?”
Not if knives are what they bring to a gunfight.
I agree 100%.
Radical islam is an insane rape and murder cult.
Moderate islam is its Trojan horse in the West.
The WORLD needs to eradicate ISIS.
Here is a theory. Good cop vs bad cop.
Al Qaeda supposed rejected ISIS as too extreme and out of their control.
I wonder if this is a ruse to make AQ look moderate by compassion and to justify concessions they may have made to Obama for the prisoner exchange.
Obama may have said, look, lay off us and we will give you your guys. AQ say sure.
Then ISIS takes over Iraq and AQ says: Look, we tried to stop them, but boy, they sure are extreme aren’t they? We reject them. What more can we do? Now, any more left over Libyan weapons we might get?
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