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“We don’t understand real evil, organized evil, very well. This is evil incarnate.”
Hugh Hewitt.com ^ | August 8,2014 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 08/08/2014 6:35:53 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Baker’s quote of Crocker, who served as President George W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq and President Obama’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, is worth reading in its entirety:

“This is about America’s national security,” said Ryan Crocker, who was ambassador to Iraq under Mr. Bush and to Afghanistan under Mr. Obama. “We don’t understand real evil, organized evil, very well. This is evil incarnate. People like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the ISIS leader, “have been in a fight for a decade. They are messianic in their vision, and they are not going to stop.”

It is hard to imagine how far ISIS will have spread its evil by the time January 2017 brings a new resolve to the White House. Hopefully the seriousness of this situation adds to the repudiation of the president and his party of go-along yes men and women at the polls in November, and a rebuilding of the Department of Defense can begin in earnest in January 2015.

It didn’t have to be this way. W’s generals and their troops won the war in Iraq. President Obama booted away the peace and the intricate coalition that held it in place when he abruptly pulled a residual American force from Iraq in 2011. This is a sequel to what happened in Vietnam in 1975. This time there are no boat people because there is no ocean and there are no boats. Just slaughter. And this time the enemy isn’t going to stop with conquering their country and incursions into a few local countries.

“This is evil incarnate,” as Ambassador Crocker put it so succinctly and well. Evil incarnate doesn’t fill out brackets, or rest or grow weary. It marches on and sneers at the delusions of its enemies who don’t even know they are the target.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; newyorktimes
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To: GraceG

When you look back, yes Saddam was a bad guy.

But this is the Arab World we’re talking about, this is par for the course....Why did we pick on him....He was our pal when they were fighting the Iranians.


41 posted on 08/08/2014 8:30:18 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Pontiac

probably so…..


42 posted on 08/08/2014 8:30:35 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: dfwgator

[ When you look back, yes Saddam was a bad guy.

But this is the Arab World we’re talking about, this is par for the course....Why did we pick on him....He was our pal when they were fighting the Iranians. ]

Yeah in some ways we shouldn’t have backed him much like we shouldn;t have backed the mujahadeen in Afghanistan. But the alternative was to let Iran’s Mullahs and the soviets encounter no resistence...


43 posted on 08/08/2014 8:35:21 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: skeeter
Its hard to take Hugh seriously when he refuses to recognize the evil inherent in our current uniparty system.

To be fair, though, at this time that uniparty system you speak of generally doesn't want to kill you because you dis-agree with it. It wants to silence and marginalize you. Sure, there are individuals that would go to extremes. As a whole, though, it doesn't want to kill you on an institutional level.

44 posted on 08/08/2014 8:40:31 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

What have “I” got to do with this.
My post said that Bush was advised to go the way he did. Did I indicate that I agreed?


45 posted on 08/08/2014 8:54:47 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Hey...Hey....Obama said that the Muslim religion MADE AMERICA a great place!!!


46 posted on 08/08/2014 9:51:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MrB

I read your post as agreeing with Bush’ decision….if you did not, then my bad.
:)


47 posted on 08/08/2014 10:18:47 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: 353FMG

My fear/concern is that the people in the USA are going to find out in the near future who all those robe draped people really are and want for the USA.


48 posted on 08/08/2014 10:34:47 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Hojczyk

Islam is evil incarnate.

It must be destroyed.


49 posted on 08/08/2014 10:41:01 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: noinfringers2

Will it be ‘Live and learn’ or ‘Die and learn’?


50 posted on 08/08/2014 10:47:16 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

With all the illegals not only from south of the border but all over the world it is problematical which occurs. However my bet is on that there will be an old fashioned USA spirit rising to the top. My WWII service and death of my brother on Okinawa still rings my liberty bell.


51 posted on 08/08/2014 11:06:11 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Turbo Pig

Are you telling me that the Lib/Progs wouldn’t kill me in a heartbeat, if they thought they could get away with it without any counter force on my part?
Of course they would; the only thing holding them back is the sure knowledge that I will fight back, using all the overwhelming violence and dirty tricks necessary to win.


52 posted on 08/08/2014 5:22:14 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: null and void; All

The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the be- lievers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.” - Majid Khadduri; The Quranic Concept of War - Joseph C. Myers

[military, psychological, political]…and Khadduri didn’t even mention social, economical, educational, visual and auditory (spiritual-creed/be-lievers noted).

Secular totalitarians and religious totalitarians operate on parallel tracks, though the statists are no match for the jihadists. Jihad trumps every one of them. Western civilization is currently ill-equipped to handle what lies ahead having deceived the masses for their own small-picture mehad.


53 posted on 08/08/2014 6:14:10 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Hojczyk

bttt


54 posted on 08/08/2014 9:20:23 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: null and void

My guess is that O and the thugocracy don’t consider their mussie buddies evil....they think capitalism and freedom are evil


55 posted on 08/08/2014 9:38:54 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: 5th MEB

Liberal/Progs...yes,there is portion of them that would. No doubt you are 100% correct there. As a whole,though, and institutionally in the US, at this time, most people who are not “conservative” would be appaled at the idea of killing you. Most who are left of center in the US are misguided, not homiciadal. That’s the problem with radical left/totaltarian movements, historically. The end up dragging those misguided people down a path where thet DO become homicidal, or at least mute in opposition to it.


56 posted on 08/10/2014 3:21:06 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: 353FMG
"Will it be ‘Live and learn’ or ‘Die and learn’?"

Their will be lots of death, but no learning going on. Anybody capable of learning would have noted the lessons from Cambodia after our unceremonious withdrawal from South Viet Nam and would make note that the same future holds for our withdrawal from Afghanistan.

57 posted on 08/10/2014 3:28:25 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

But the Cambodians were not a direct threat to us — ISIS is.


58 posted on 08/10/2014 8:29:38 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Pontiac
I don’t think Obama understands Liberty or Freedom. I don’t think he believes in Liberty or Freedom.

The Won loathes Liberty and Freedom.

The Won loathes Western Civilization.

As the highest expression of Liberty and Freedom in Western Civilization, The Won loathes this country most of all.

He, and the barbarians on the other end of his BlackBerry, want most of us dead, the rest in chains.

Keep that all in mind, and everything he does makes perfect sense.

59 posted on 08/11/2014 4:34:35 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Jim Noble

We had the Vietnam War won in 1970; the North Vietnamese were preparing to seek a truce.

Jane Fonda, John Kerry et al convinced General Giap to stick it out, and they would build the anti-war movement to get the US to give-up.

Had we not abandoned our treaty obligations to the South Vietnamese, they may very well have been able to hold their own against the North.


60 posted on 08/11/2014 4:48:10 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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