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Gen. Allen: Destroy the Islamic State Now
Defense One ^ | August 20, 2014 | By Gen. John Allen (Ret.)

Posted on 08/21/2014 7:42:08 PM PDT by GonzoII

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Destroy the Islamic State Now
1 posted on 08/21/2014 7:42:09 PM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Who is he asking here? The head of ISIS, Barack Soebarkah?!


2 posted on 08/21/2014 7:43:00 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: GonzoII
What a joke. It was the feckless one that aided and abetted the enemy. Is that not the definition of treason?
3 posted on 08/21/2014 7:47:52 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: GonzoII

First we are going to have to sideline the people who got upset over Abu Ghraib photos and a Marine pissing on a dead terrorist.


4 posted on 08/21/2014 7:47:55 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: GonzoII

As I said on another thread;
“I beg God’s forgiveness, but they all need to be dead.”


5 posted on 08/21/2014 7:51:32 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing! I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that th)
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To: GonzoII

Sorry but this was he same guy who implemented the ridiculous rules of engagement in Afghanistan. When American soldiers began getting shot in the back by their “Afghan” allies, he actually came out with a directive that American soldiers should be more understanding of Afghan homosexual practices. He was a very politically correct officer who climbed the career ladder. He praised Obama constantly. The irony is that while he may have a good idea, he might as well publish it in a gardening magazine for all that his hero Obama cares.


6 posted on 08/21/2014 7:56:29 PM PDT by allendale
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To: GonzoII

destroy islam.


7 posted on 08/21/2014 7:59:03 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: Fungi

We can’t even jail one IRS agent. Who is going to vote for treason?


8 posted on 08/21/2014 8:00:32 PM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: GonzoII
Bottom line: The president deserves great credit in attacking IS that diificult par 5. It was the gravest of decisions for him - to use an iron off the tee, taking the tricky dogleg and water hazard out of play.
9 posted on 08/21/2014 8:01:50 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
You are right--a moot point. Bonehead Boehner will never do anything.
10 posted on 08/21/2014 8:03:55 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: GonzoII

At the same time Ocowshit considers how to deal with ISIS, he continues to systematically neuter our Armed Forces. Previously, it was flag officers; now he’s getting rid of mid-level officers and upper level NCO’s.

The best way to deal with ISIS is to first get rid of the jackass screwing up the works in our country!


11 posted on 08/21/2014 8:07:25 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: GonzoII

If we hadn’t taken Assad’s poison gas IS may not be in existence.


12 posted on 08/21/2014 8:09:37 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: GonzoII
Guess he didn't get the word:


13 posted on 08/21/2014 8:11:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: GonzoII

Amen. If Obama does move decisively to cut off the head of this rattle snake, he deserves to lose his own.


14 posted on 08/21/2014 8:21:54 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: GonzoII
You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

(Winston Churchill - May 13, 1940, his address to the House of Commons upon taking up his duties as Prime Minister during the calamitous days of the fall of France).

I ask the reader, what is Barack Obama's policy? I ask, what is Barack Obama's aim?

Surely, no one can confidently state that Barack Obama's aim is victory over the monstrous tyranny of aggressive Islam; no one can feel confident that his policy is to wage war to gain that end.

Obama has no policy that is identifiable because he has no stated aim and not even an understanding that we are at war or who the enemy might be. At a time that begs for Churchillian clarity we get duplicity. Many of us believe that Obama's true aim is the undermining of America as a force for good in the world to facilitate the triumph of his one world socialist utopia. Others believe that he is a Manchurian Muslim actually implementing treasonous policy on behalf of a Muslim jihad. Others believe that he is a communist exploiting Islam to destabilize the existing world structure to pave the way for his leftist utopia.

If these doubts exist the fault is not with the doubters but with the man himself who gives grounds for doubting. The man by his own bearing has caused a nation of gullible voters to lapse into doubters and cynics.

General Alan (Ret.) patriotically steps up and tries to fill the gaps in our national cause created by our Commander-In-Chief. But his task is hopeless because we are a nation hopelessly adrift. We have no national purpose. Without Churchillian clarity of purpose we can expect no good to come from halfhearted measures against Isis. We can expect no good to emerge from our incoherent foreign policy.

The truly terrifying risk remains that the foreign policy which appears so incoherent to us is actually quite coherent in the mind of Barack Hussein Obama.


15 posted on 08/21/2014 8:36:26 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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The US has never been serious about this fight. If we were, we would drop pork products all over these barbarians.


16 posted on 08/21/2014 8:37:36 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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Who supports Islamic State (IS)?

So far, several tribal Sunni leaders & their clan in Iraq. Some Sunnis in Syria and even the Lebanon. IS also has support among Sunnis in many other countries across the globe.

Note, approx. 85% of the muslim population across the world is Sunni (Salafis & Wahabbis included), who are spread across both the muslim world & the globe in general.

If we want to say Obama supports them, then add it. And, we know quite a few Gulf region monarchies actually fund Islamic State (IS) as well as Saudi Arabia.

Further complication is Islamic State (IS) doesn't simply have Arab or muslim born members, but many 'foreigners' including Westerners from different Western countries. Why? Who knows exactly... but that's coupled with a lot of ignorance & illiteracy in the West about Islam, Islamic terrorism, as well as insistence by some on replacing 'dictatorships' in the M.E. and N. Africa at all cost; never mind if that gives birth to something like Islamic State.

How do we deal with all that?

17 posted on 08/21/2014 8:40:57 PM PDT by odds
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Obama dithered and hesitated before authorizing a rescue mission that ultimately failed to get James Foley and someone thinks he’s capable of going up against IS even with a mercenary army of Arabs? He won’t even give meaningful aid to the Kurds.


18 posted on 08/21/2014 8:48:06 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Forgiveness for what? God is of the same opinion. He commissioned the death penalty, and he commissioned the total destruction of evil entities/nations/tribes.

Then on top of that, he commissioned government to execute justice.

You are good.

19 posted on 08/21/2014 11:16:03 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

The thing is, if we were to move an army in to attack them they would scatter like cockroaches. And as soon as you leave they would come crawling back. Very hard to kill when they can blend in with the natives. We don’t have the will to do what would be required to really take them out long term. I don’t think the crusades were an accident nor the brutality that that was used. It was the only thing that actually worked.


20 posted on 08/22/2014 2:21:45 AM PDT by DB
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