Posted on 08/08/2014 8:54:22 AM PDT by rktman
It may well be that ISIS is one of at least two too-clever-by-half operations masterminded by our enemies. At the beginning, ISIS spun off from Al Qaeda because, we were told, Zawahari was too moderate for them. AQ didnt slaughter enough, didnt crucify enough, wasnt psychotic enough for their taste.
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I think maybe so. The way the news dribbled out and was denied then sputtered about then announced as something brand new today would indicate that the Emir did not order this and was presented with a Situation- Dear CinC, this is happening. You can take credit for it or get radically lameduckified right now.
For all his maybes, it is already happening and he is gritting his teeth and trying to figure out how to stop it without doing himself irreparable political damage. He faces being identified by former supporters as a passive Pol Pot.
He knew it was already in the hopper but the ‘maybes’ will be good enough for his left loon base. Who else could pull off ‘tough but indecisive’ and get political mileage out of both but The Great 0weewee?
I usually find Ledeen to be reasonable, but citing Ukranian sources that Moscow planned to blast an Aeroflot plane out of the sky and blame it on the Ukranians is, in the absence of incontrovertible evidence, Infowars type conspiracy mongering. I’m very disappointed in him.
“Men gave birth to this evil, but the seed of Marxism and Islam came from Satan himself.”
True. Islam tries to replace God with legalism, and Marxism does so with government. Islam appeals to theists, Marxism to atheists.
He's like Governor Lepetomaine
Holy underwear! Innocent women and children blown to bits! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
And so once again we’ll side with one faction of Islam, instead of just allowing them to kill each other off.
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