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Islamic State: Biggest threat to United States?
BBC News ^ | August 22, 2014 | By Shashank Joshi

Posted on 08/23/2014 4:42:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has used a remarkable set of words to describe the militants of Islamic State (IS).

He warned of their "apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision", argued that they pose "an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else", and depicted them as "beyond anything that we've seen". Is this reckless threat inflation, or is Mr Hagel correct?

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; jayvee; leadingfrombehind; obama
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1 posted on 08/23/2014 4:42:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Personified in the White House


2 posted on 08/23/2014 4:46:11 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.


3 posted on 08/23/2014 4:46:59 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana


4 posted on 08/23/2014 4:49:07 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No.

The biggest threat is our CONTINUAL tolerance of Islam and Muslims in our very midst. These so called “foreign” fighters in ISIS from the West are REALLY transplanted MUSLIMS or their spawn who settled in western countries. But as Muslims they ALWAYS view themselves as citizens of the Umma FIRST LAST AND ALWAYS.

They are ticking time bombs ready to explode in our midst at any moment.


5 posted on 08/23/2014 4:52:29 AM PDT by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WE ARE THE ISLAMIC STATE! Have you looked at this administration?
Muslim Brotherhood people in The Homeland Security dept and other agencies,A Muslim is the head of the CIA an Iranian born woman as the Presidents most trusted advisor,Valerie Jarrett,Obama does not take a crap without asking her what she thinks,Obama in his own book said when the politics get dicey he will always side with the Muslims,he said the call to morning prayer is the sweetest sound on earth.
Give me a freaking break,WAKE UP AMERICA!


6 posted on 08/23/2014 4:53:55 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

what a negative comment....in essence he is saying; it is all over, we are finished, run and hide under your bed....nothing can be done to stop their advances.....yes, there is it is called M.A.D


7 posted on 08/23/2014 5:02:17 AM PDT by B212
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The general is of course incorrect

Barack Obama is a much greater threat to the American Republic tnan ISIL

Barack Obama is the greatest threat.

Or perhaps since there is no effort to remove him, complacency is the greatest threat.


8 posted on 08/23/2014 5:04:24 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: knarf
Who is causing the most misery for Americans?

Who is causing the most damage to America?

Who is the biggest threat to America's future?

- Khaled Mashal

- Ayatollah Khamenei

- Bashar al-Assad

- Vladimir Putin

- Hillary Clinton

- Barack Obama


9 posted on 08/23/2014 5:07:02 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Democrats love poor blacks - that's why they keep them on the Plantation)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look at it this way: the Chinese, the Russians and the Koreans will probably not be nuking us or gasing us any time soon.


10 posted on 08/23/2014 5:08:18 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: B212

MAD has no meaning to people who believe they’re martyrs. They’re wrong, of course, but there is no deterrent effect.


11 posted on 08/23/2014 5:12:08 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Islam is a rabid dog and it’s always best to but down that rabid dog before you are bit.


12 posted on 08/23/2014 5:18:00 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good, let’s leverage this to declare war on the Islamic State and every allied organization. Enough of this shadow war.


13 posted on 08/23/2014 5:22:07 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

We (that’s you and I) will soon be hunting them down in the streets (that’s OUR streets) and shooting them down like the dogs they are.

Too bad. It did NOT have to come to this, but when the gummint is so deeply penetrated and you elect a muslim............


14 posted on 08/23/2014 5:24:32 AM PDT by Flintlock
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Congress and the President are bigger threats!


15 posted on 08/23/2014 5:29:50 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: ZULU
"The biggest threat is our CONTINUAL tolerance---"

Thank you for your statement. It would be tempting to reply how politically incorrect and middle age (crusades) your thinking is, given the philosophy of the New World Order. However you have boiled the problem down to its essence. The question now is: are freedom loving Christians willing to do what is necessary to solve the problem?

16 posted on 08/23/2014 5:30:14 AM PDT by buckalfa (Long time caller --- first time listener.)
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To: ballplayer

You forgot Huma Abedin, Hillary’s long-time aid. There’s no telling how much info she’s passed along.


17 posted on 08/23/2014 5:35:07 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Almost as bad as our current national government.


18 posted on 08/23/2014 5:35:08 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: buckalfa

If they do they will have to deal with the politically correct leftists who have seized control of the hierarchies of most mainline Christian Churches as they have done with the mainstream media and educational establishments.


19 posted on 08/23/2014 5:40:55 AM PDT by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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"But Moscow could be deterred, whereas the "apocalyptic" ideology of IS is perceived as incapable of long-term coexistence or compromise.

Very few groups have combined this territorial control, state-like structure, and avowed intention to attack the West. Mr Hagel, despite his hyperbole, has a point."

These last two paragraphs of the article are an excellent summation of the problem.

20 posted on 08/23/2014 5:48:00 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "Our Emperor may have no clothes, but doesn't he have a wonderful tan" - MSM)
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