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The Face of the Tiger ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 23 Aug 2014 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/24/2014 6:36:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan

A few days ago, James Foley was beheaded by an ISIS jihadist, apparently British by upbringing and passport, if not in his primary identity. The decapitation of an American by an outfit he'd previously dismissed as the "jayvees" of jihad was sufficiently serious for President Obama to postpone his tee time, although not to any useful effect. Aside from the fake, tinny chumminess (all "Jim" this, "Jim that, just as for Ambassador Stevens it was all "Chris" this, "Chris that") the commander-in-chief reserves for the victims of an enemy he assured us was on the run, Obama's remarks were fatuous even by his own recent standards, and did not long delay his arrival at the links. As his courtiers at The New York Times assured us with touching if unwitting accuracy:

Obama, Outraged Over Beheading, Vows to Stay on Course

While he stays on the course at the Vineyard Golf Club, the rest of us have to make do with the pabulum of his prompter:

One thing we can all agree on is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century.

As I was driving back from Quebec to New Hampshire today, I heard a host on CJAD express agreement with the President on this. And why not? It demands nothing of one. It makes ISIS sound like a social faux pas: one thing we can all agree on is that no one wears white after Labor Day or saws your head off after the year 2000.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; marksteyn; stayoncourse; steyn

1 posted on 08/24/2014 6:36:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
One thing we can all agree on is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century.

That is why Islam needs to be eradicated. But this POS doesn't have American values. He will side with the muslim. He said so in his book.

2 posted on 08/24/2014 6:44:34 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

We’re going to get hit again, courtesy of the current WH occupant.


3 posted on 08/24/2014 6:45:35 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Rummyfan
Obama's remarks were fatuous even by his own recent standards ...

*snicker*

4 posted on 08/24/2014 6:56:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Rummyfan
For thirteen years, we have shied away from directly confronting the ideology, preferring to disrupt only its symptoms - bomb plots, and airline attacks. And in that thirteen years the ideology has metastasized within the cocoon of western denial - so that the men barely out of short trousers on 9/11 now flock to fight for an organization that Obama assures us "has no place in the 21st century". If the evasive pap spouted by the President the other day is the best the west can do, then we will lose.

Steyn is correct. After almost 1400 years of essentially ignoring the threat of Islam, the West must finally address it head on.

It is, after all, a question of "Them or Us".

5 posted on 08/24/2014 6:58:31 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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Obama's remarks were fatuous even by his own recent standards ...

Umh...standards? Do teleprompters have standards?

6 posted on 08/24/2014 7:05:52 AM PDT by outofsalt
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To: outofsalt
Do teleprompters have standards?

They must, or they wouldn't work at all.

7 posted on 08/24/2014 7:09:40 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yup...why I always worry when the POS and his entourage leave the ccountry


8 posted on 08/24/2014 7:47:16 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevrens, Woods)
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To: okie01

13 years???? I remember a lot from my teen years. Beirut, no response, hijackings, the Olympics, etc.


9 posted on 08/24/2014 8:08:48 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Rummyfan
Steyn so-oooo-o-o nails it!
10 posted on 08/24/2014 8:39:38 AM PDT by Gritty (To remain free, a people need the spirit of liberty. Once lost, there's no easy roads back.-Mk Steyn)
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No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day.
No Just President would either. He'd promise to annihilate every last one of the ISIS Nonhuman Animals and immediately order the Military to start on annihilating pronto!
11 posted on 08/24/2014 9:53:10 AM PDT by zbogwan2
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To: huldah1776
13 years???? I remember a lot from my teen years. Beirut, no response, hijackings, the Olympics, etc.

The point is the West has been shying away from dealing with the Islamic threat for more like 13 hundred years.

And the threat has now become existential...

12 posted on 08/24/2014 10:22:41 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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