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Can you Tell Who the Bad Guys are Now? ISIS is a living monster, lurking in Western cities
American Thinker ^ | 08/20/2014 | Avi Davis

Posted on 08/20/2014 5:08:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

You would have thought that Barack Obama and David Cameron, the nominal leaders of the free world, would have had it all figured out by now.

Obama, in the sixth year of his presidency and Cameron in his fourth as prime minister, have both nevertheless been loath to identify the growing menace that threatens the survival of the West.

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The ISIS phenomenon has stunned the world. Much like the Mongol hordes that swept out of the Central Asian Steppe in the 13th Century, this is a force which seems to have emerged from nowhere -- anti-modern, highly focused in its objectives and brutal in its execution while paying no attention to the niceties of the rules of war. Brutal decapitations of Iraqi civilians, the rape of women, their sale in slave markets, the burial of live victims, the starvation of villagers into submission -- this is not even terrorism, or Assad-like murder of Syrian citizens, but Genghis Khan reincarnated in the 21st Century.

So far, it has swept everything before it, conquering two of Iraq's largest cities, and mercilessly killing anything standing on two legs that does not conform to its standards of religious observance. It represents the gravest threat to stability in a notoriously unstable region of the world.

But because ISIS does not want nor need television credentials nor exposure, and does not have a spokesman nor any kind of specific political identity, Western leaders have been flummoxed as to how to contend with the group and its acts of unrelenting barbarism.

Yet we in the West would be wrong to think that we have seen nothing like it at all on our own soil.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: globaljihad; isis; islam
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1 posted on 08/20/2014 5:08:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Calling a thing by its right name is the beginning of wisdom”.


2 posted on 08/20/2014 5:09:44 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: SeekAndFind
The ISIS phenomenon has stunned the world.

Stunned some parts of the world, but not those with even a modicum of sanity and foresight. Astute people from all quarters (active military, retired military, civil service, etc.) predicted that when the U.S. vacated Iraq, jihadists would move in to fill the vacuum.

Obama just crossed his fingers real hard, squeezed his eyes shut and refused to see or deal with the obvious.

David Cameron came home from his vacation to deal with the ISIS threat. Obama went back to Mahtha's Vineyahd to play more golf.

3 posted on 08/20/2014 5:18:48 AM PDT by randita ("Is a nation without borders a nation?"...Noonan)
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To: SeekAndFind
You would have thought that Barack Obama and David Cameron, the nominal leaders of the free world, would have had it all figured out by now.

nobama's got it figured out. In fact, he appears to be helping his fellow moslem brothers.

4 posted on 08/20/2014 5:22:37 AM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“this is a force which seems to have emerged from nowhere”

Really???? We’ll start taking these satanists by their word when they’re beheading people on US soil. Maybe.


5 posted on 08/20/2014 5:23:50 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: SeekAndFind
John McCain needs to answer for his association with ISIS members!
6 posted on 08/20/2014 5:24:24 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Much like the Mongol hordes that swept out of the Central Asian Steppe in the 13th Century...”

No, ISIS has emerged directly from the contemporary Western namby-pamby disinclination to identify the problem - Moslems - and do something about it.

But, then, governments are only good for confiascating taxes from their hard-working constituents, they really don’t like actually to have to do anything in exchange.


7 posted on 08/20/2014 5:25:37 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SeekAndFind

ISIS is NOT the problem! ISIS is only a manifestation of Islam with resources. The problem is and has been for 14 centuries ISLAM. Should Islam prevail in the present eruption, civilization will have ended for all time. The human race will descend to a level of bare subsistence and much reduced population. Internecine warfare will continue so long as the race exists but will not rise above the level of raids because there will be insufficient resources for greater violence. Islam must have nonIslamic civilization as a neighbor for it to gain wealth or even maintain what it has. With Islamicization of the world the next civilization can only arise when technology has broken down to such an extent that there is effectively no communication between these much reduced populations and perhaps the people on one continent or another will evolve differently.


8 posted on 08/20/2014 5:25:54 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: ryan71
We’ll start taking these satanists by their word when they’re beheading people on US soil. Maybe.

My prediction is they'll converge on some isolated little American town or a school, hold hostages in a standoff for awhile, then behead them.

9 posted on 08/20/2014 5:28:11 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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10 posted on 08/20/2014 5:30:50 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did they ever thank Obama for the military equipment he gave them back when he called them Freedom Fighters?


11 posted on 08/20/2014 5:34:46 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Why Obama's sons are like sperm: Only one in a million work.)
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To: ScottinVA

When that happens, may God so stir our souls that Islamic jackals will discover what Yamamoto feared, that in America “there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass”.

And, our knives will be loose in our sheathes as we will not take many prisoners.


12 posted on 08/20/2014 5:35:21 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Odumbo supports these monsters.

Pray America wakes up


13 posted on 08/20/2014 5:37:32 AM PDT by bray (Palin/Bibi 2016)
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RE: Did they ever thank Obama for the military equipment he gave them back when he called them Freedom Fighters?

Actually,most of them were taken from the Iraqi military after they refused to fight, fled and left their military equipment behind.

Now, we find ourselves having to BOMB and destroy our own military equipment.


14 posted on 08/20/2014 5:38:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Western leaders have been flummoxed as to how to contend with the group and its acts of unrelenting barbarism

Civilized world vs barbarian world.

You cannot fight that -- and expect to win -- with a PC mentality. Political correctness? They laugh at that. No matter how 'nice' the PC world is to the Gitmo detainees, for example, when those detainees are released, most return to the the battlefields.

The only way is to defeat to surrender, not to politically correct negotiations. The West has been too eager to rush in the diplomats into war torn areas before the war was actually won.


15 posted on 08/20/2014 5:42:30 AM PDT by TomGuy
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....Western leaders have been flummoxed as to how to contend with the group and its acts of unrelenting barbarism.

Hmmmm.....that is a tough one.

How about this? KILL THEM! Slaughter every last frickin one of them. See.....that wasn't so difficult.

16 posted on 08/20/2014 5:54:46 AM PDT by Envisioning (My desire to be well informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane....)
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To: Envisioning
How about this? KILL THEM! Slaughter every last frickin one of them. See.....that wasn't so difficult.

------------------------------------------------------------ Nope, those are THEIR rules, works for me. Unfortunately that is the only thing the understand. When do we start?

17 posted on 08/20/2014 6:36:57 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: SeekAndFind

All mosques in America, and all members and visitors thereto must be cataloged. Said data being public documents, they must be made available to the public.

In such manner may the sworn enemies of America be identified.


18 posted on 08/20/2014 6:51:15 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: elcid1970

You’ll be fighting the DHS — muzzies are a protected species in this country, don’t you know?


19 posted on 08/20/2014 7:04:20 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Jack Hammer
Good point. ISIS has nothing of Genghis Khan's tactical and strategic brilliance - unmatched in human history and studied at every War College in the world. Genghis did not care what religion you worshiped or your race just as long as you did not oppose his rule. His brutality was real but was not uncommon for the 13th Century. The sad fact is that ISIS and much of the Islamic world are still stuck in the 13th century. Their brutality and religious fanaticism will their downfall. Whereas, Genghis Khan's empire expanded and lasted over 100 years after his death.Genghis might have been the only ruler who knew how to deal with the Muslim menace, which is why he is the Muslim World's Hitler. .
20 posted on 08/20/2014 7:11:43 AM PDT by ohioman
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