Posted on 09/12/2014 3:23:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
Resident Obama’s vow to destroy ISIS rings hollow and sets the course for another American misadventure. Along with allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, he refuses to grasp that security can’t be purchased on the cheap.
The cancer has metastasized to spawn terrorist groups and cells on every continent financed through business fronts, extortion and donations. Those recruit fighters from the United States, Britain, France, and all the way to Australia, kidnap westerners and Africans for ransom, and commit far reaching acts of wanton violence.
American bombings in Syria and Iraq will slow down ISIS but hardly destroy it. Leaving moderate rebels to fight both Bashar al-Assad and ISIS on the ground in Syria is folly, even with western logistical and materiel support. Al-Assad with get what he needs from Russia, and western soldiers—not just American—will be needed to fully root out ISIS.
Germany, moderate Middle East states and others lament the withdrawal of American leadership in the face of aggression—be it from Russia or terrorist groups in the Muslim world—but for too long now, those governments have been willing to let, and expect, Americans and a few others to do the fighting. They only provide logistical support and limited money, even though their militaries are quite well endowed through purchases of U.S. arms and their economies well able to bear a full cost of war.
And often these allies turn a blind eye, and permit their businesses and banks to profit from commerce with terrorist fronts.
European governments have even paid ransom for kidnapped citizens rather than wrinkle the uniforms of their soldiers to rescue them. Along with appeasement of Russian aggression in the Ukraine and elsewhere, those have only emboldened terrorist notions that the West and its more moderate Muslim allies are weak, decadent and worthy of extermination.
Terrorism is inspired and financed by the failings of the global economy. Germany, Japan, China, and a few of their acolytes have selfishly exploited global commerce. They pursue export-oriented development strategies that cheat on the international norms for global competition and thrust onto other nations gapping trade deficits, crippling debt and terrible unemployment.
Consequently, youth in too many nations lack any prospect for decent jobs.
Hopeless young Muslims fall easy prey to radical intellectuals offering religious meaning for their despair and disaffection. They end up performing heinous acts and toting a rifle for ISIS.
Obama won the presidency promising to redress global economic imbalances and offering greater economic justice for Americans whose wages are beaten down by the abuses of globalization. And the notion that the latter can be done with little cost by withdrawing the U.S. military from foreign engagements and turning the savings into universal health care and other social welfare.
Terrorists will remain ardent to the conviction that the West is vulnerable as long as the United States and its pacifist allies are unwilling to stand in harm’s way to rescue their own citizens and destroy those who threaten them. Even on a full war footing, the United States military, along with a few willing allies, cannot confront terrorism on a global scale if Germany and others are not willing to step up and fight too.
And, until the global economy functions to ensure meaningful futures for young people everywhere —not just in the mercantilist states of northern Europe and Asia—they will remain easy pickings for twisted ideas. Terrorism will continue an uncontainable threat.
In the end, an American president will simply have to demand and receive more help from U.S. allies, and Americans must be willing to pay the full price for liberty—in money and lives.
Thank you for the recommendation. I have seen her interviewed, and will get her book from the library if I can.
This bow-tied professor is quite the libtard moron. He thinks bad economic conditions, which he wrongly attributes to Germany, Japan, and China out-competing the Eurotrash, are the cause of terrorism.
In fact, terrorism is an upper-class phenomenon. Osama was Saudi rich. Zawahiri is a pediatrician. Mohammed Atta was a top student, with degrees in architecture and engineering. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had an engineering degree from a US college. Major Nidal Hasan was an army officer and psychiatrist.
Terrorism’s causation has nothing to do with economics and everything to do with Islam.
And another thing -
All Muslims immediately removed from our armed forces, police and fire departments, our schools, federal/state/local elected,appointed,and civil service offices.
Being affiliated with Islam makes one persona non grata in the USA.
Ranting still, alas, that so few can see the infiltration into our culture and institutions - and that means you, Valerie Jarrett, Huma Abedeen, Keith Ellison, CAIR, and Louis Farrakhan.
All preaching of Islam out of our jails, too.
We need a new Joe McCarthy to raise the alarm and bring us to our senses.
No thanks.
you need to be president!
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