Posted on 09/30/2014 4:29:59 AM PDT by markomalley
In his speech to the United Nations last week, President Obama pledged to the world that the United States would use its might to stop the horrific depredations of the terrorist movement variously known as the Islamic State, ISIS, or, as he calls it, ISIL.
“This group has terrorized all who they come across in Iraq and Syria,” the president proclaimed. “Mothers, sisters, daughters have been subjected to rape as a weapon of war. Innocent children have been gunned down. Bodies have been dumped in mass graves. Religious minorities have been starved to death. In the most horrific crimes imaginable, innocent human beings have been beheaded, with videos of the atrocity distributed to shock the conscience of the world.”
“No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions,” he said. “There can be no reasoning — no negotiation — with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death. . . . We will support Iraqis and Syrians fighting to reclaim their communities. We will use our military might in a campaign of air strikes to roll back ISIL. We will train and equip forces fighting against these terrorists on the ground.”
These are brave words that well and truly denounce evil for what it is. Unfortunately, the president’s actions since then have been anything but consistent with his pledge to stop the terrorism.
As these lines are being written, some 400,000 Kurds in and around the town of Kobane in northern Syria, on the Turkish border, are being besieged and assaulted by massed legions of Islamic State killers armed with scores of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and heavy artillery. Against these, the Kurdish defenders have only AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The Kurds have called on the U.S. to send in air strikes to take out the jihadist forces. In response, the administration sent in two fighter jets Saturday, which destroyed two Islamic State tanks and then flew away. The Kurds are begging for arms. The administration has not only refused to send arms, but is exerting pressure both on our NATO allies and on Israel not to send any either. Over 150,000 Kurds have fled their homes to try to escape to Turkey, but they are being blocked at the border by Turkish troops. Meanwhile, Turkey is allowing Islamist reinforcements to enter Syria to join the Islamic State, while Islamist elements of the Free Syrian Army, funded and armed by the United States, have joined forces with the group in the genocidal assault on the Kurdish enclave.
According to Kurdish sources, the Turks are massing troops on their own side of the border, with the apparent plan being to sit in place and allow the Kurds to be exterminated, and then move in to take over the region once they are gone. This is the same plan as Josef Stalin used when he allowed the Nazis to wipe out the Polish underground during the Warsaw rising of 1944, and only afterward sent in the Red Army to take control of what was left of the city. If anything, it is even more morally reprehensible, since it could be pointed out in Stalin’s defense that his forces were at least pummeling the enemy elsewhere while the Warsaw fight was under way. In contrast, the Turks are doing nothing of the sort. For an American administration to collude in such a mass atrocity is infamous.
If we are to win the war against the Islamic State, we need ground forces, and the Obama administration has rejected the idea of sending in any of our own. The Kurds, who have demonstrated both their bravery and their willingness to be friends with America, are right there, and already engaged in the fight. If supplied with adequate arms and backed by serious U.S. tactical air support, they could roll up ISIS as rapidly as the similarly reinforced Northern Alliance did the Taliban in the fall of 2001. Done right, this war could be won in months, instead of waged inconclusively for years.
The administration, however, has rejected this alternative, and has instead opted for a Saudi-Qatari plan to allow the Syrian Kurds to be exterminated while training a new Sunni Arab army in Saudi Arabia. Given the Saudi role in the new army’s tutelage and officer selection, the Islamist nature of this force is a foregone conclusion. At best it might provide a more disciplined replacement for the Islamic State as an Islamist Syrian opposition at some point in the distant future (current official administration estimates are at least a year) when it is considered ready for combat. Meanwhile the killing will simply go on, with the United States doing its part to further Islamist recruitment by indulging in endless strategy-free bombing of Sunni villages.
So now, to paraphrase the president, “Mothers, sisters, daughters will be subjected to rape as a weapon of war. Innocent children will be gunned down. Bodies will be dumped in mass graves. Religious minorities will be starved to death. In the most horrific crimes imaginable, innocent human beings will be beheaded, with videos of the atrocity distributed to shock the conscience of the world.”
Surely we can do better.
betrayal is all obama is good at
No whey!
Obama betrays America. And everyone else who has relied on his administration.
As a street level person looking in, I have no idea what the heck is going on with this administration.
I have formed an opinion that the Obama Administration is actively working with the Islamists to overthrow Western influence in the ME.
It is time for all of Obama’s records including his passport and transcripts to be exposed.
Do I dare conclude we have traitors in the White House?
Ubama, the CO, has his.priorities.
More Obamawocky. Meaningless words.
He will have the radical muzzies backs until they can establish their caliphate.
Never, ever forget that Zero speaketh with forked tongue.
Truth resides not within him.
Glittering plastic.
In Islam , I beleive it is called taqqyia.
Or ,.. OPPS, am I bad ?
I saw something that ISIS recently established a consulate in Turkey. In case Obola missed it, this is a direct assault on NATO by one of its members by providing aid to a non NATO waring country. It would be the equal of Germany joining Putin in an attack on Poland.
I don’t think we can wait two more years for this dark cloud to be gone from over the land. When is the Congress going to wake up and march his ass out of the white house and to the gallows along with his entire band of confederates.
Obama is on the other side.
“Mothers, sisters, daughters have been subjected to rape as a weapon of war. Innocent children have been gunned down. Bodies have been dumped in mass graves....
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m due to tee off in twenty minutes.”
I have noticed that Obama uses phrases very similar to this quite often. If it were a one time occurrence I wouldn't think anything of it but he has said almost the exact same wording a number of times.
By using this phraseology he is indicating that either he believes that there actually exist more than one god or he doesn't believe in any god. If a Christian president or even a muslim president were to say the same sentiment he would say, "God doesn't condone..." or "Allah doesn't condone..." or "No legitimate understanding of God thinks he would condone...."
What kind of person would tacitly accept or endorse the idea of more than one god despite is own belief in only one God just for the sake of not appearing to favor his own religion over another? How many time have we been told that Allah and God are the same thing in just different languages(they are not)? No one would have blinked an eye if he said "God does not condone...." He is intentionally using the phrase, "No god would condone...." so that he can make the official position of the United States to be that there are actually all of the these different "gods" out there, be they real or just pretend, all with the same legitimacy.
You got it. Obama is trying again to defeat Assad and toss another country into the hands of murderous thugs who will kill all Christians and others who do not ascribe to their dream of a Greater Caliphate. Obama destroyed Libra, tried to put the Muslim Brotherhood in charge in Egypt, has mucked up Iraq, is planning to leave Afghanistan in such a state that the Taliban will be back in charge, and assured the flow of massive quantities of weapons from the former government of Libya's weapons depots to Islamist guerrilla movements throughout North Africa. Obama is an incredibly effective force for bringing chaos and helping Islamist transnational terrorism.
The betrayal of the Kurds was predicted. They aren’t acceptable Sunnis, nor are they inclined to bow toward Saudi, because they want an independent Kurdistan or a separate Kurdistan that is part of a federal or confederal system.
That makes them pariahs.
Obama will see them killed unless some way to twist his arm is discovered, or the Kurds receive weaponry from a different source. Just a few Javelins would wipe out the few tanks that ISIS has. But Turkey has always hated the Kurds, and they’ll just resupply ISIS, if that’s what it takes.
God will judge us for this.
Obama is on the side of the antichrist. The Saudi-Qatar plan will be a fiasco. The Turks hate the Kurds and will soon start the genocide of the Kurds on their own land...so they do not want more Kurds in their country to have to deal with.
Yes and no. He is working to install those 'Islamists' who he thinks can be controlled and will toe the line with the West in the long run. But, those Islamists can do whatever they want elsewhere in the Islamic world and with their own people.
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