Posted on 09/06/2014 2:00:22 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Middle East studies expert Dr. David Bukay of the University of Haifa ridicules intelligence experts trying to downplay the danger posed by the extremist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), which has captured large swathes of Iraq and Syria in recent months.
Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Bukay explained "today they have nearly 20,000 fighters; it's a contagious phenomenon, they cast fear and dread and many join them."
"There's no clear strategy against them," added Bukay, noting on US President Barack Obama's statements last Thursday that he has "no strategy" to combat IS in Syria.
"Today they're already waving their flags in Arab villages in Israel, in Umm al-Fahm and Saknin. The new amendment against waving Hamas and IS flags is ludicrous, I'd like to see the attorney general fight them," commented the Middle East expert.
Bukay argued that the world must understand the war today must not be against this or that terror group, but against extremist Islam as an ideology.
"Islam is an existential threat, and if in the past they declared war on the Nazis and afterwards on Communism, today they must declare war on Islam and not necessarily on terror. You're fighting an ideology here that speaks about conquering the world and killing infidels, that's a religious war by all means," argued the expert.
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Well, we still have Basher Asshead.
And the Egyptians seem to know what they're doing.
Meaning the devil.
19th Amendment..? What?
Whether it’s applicable or not, doesn’t hurt to do so. worst case, media is pissed that we executed some terrorists. Best case, they see how serious we are and they’re scared of not getting their virgins. Either way is win-win :)
Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists]
I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.
Thanks DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis.
He's right... we're at war with a very toxic and evil ideology...
Those two were part of said pestilence. We have no friends over there. No Muslim faction is going to wipe out another and just leave the Great Satan alone.
“The pet goat seems a tad excessive”
In war, there is no such thing as ‘excessive’. Excessive is the excuse used to tie the US military’s hands with ROEs that allow enemies to leave a skirmish unscathed because some ‘civilian’ might be killed, which in turn increases US casualties, and the casualties inflicted on those same ‘precious and innocent’ civilians by the enemy.
Without ‘excessive’ in war - much like current US ROEs - the war cannot be won. ISIS understands this. The more excessive they are, the more we are intimidated, confused, and ultimately defeated.
The West cannot defeat Islam until the people who speak of excessive, unfair, unjust, unacceptable collateral damage, peace talks, understand that war is ugly and horrible, but only winnable when all those willing to die for Islam are dead - no matter what the extreme needed to effect that end. WWII was ended by extremes when the last Nazi, the last Japanese soldier willing to die were dead.
Go one step further and incinerate the vegetation the goat ate, then salt the land the vegetation grew on, just to be sure.
The enemy certainly cares nothing for civilian casualties.
“No Muslim faction is going to wipe out another and just leave the Great Satan alone.”
What do you think Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were
doing? At one time they were both our allies. At one time
Hussein was killing Iranians and leaving “the Great Satin”
alone. That was screwed up when Kuwait tapped the
al-Rumaila oilfield and was stealing oil from Iraq. Iraq
invaded Kuwait, papa Bush sided with Kuwait and that was
the end of that. Gaddafi was leaving the U.S. alone and
was semi supportive in the Iraq and Afghanistan
campaigns but an even bigger idiot screwed that up.
Absolute fear of annihilation is most effective against
these primitive beasts and right now, with this administration,
that option doesn’t exist and they know it.
“19th Amendment..? What?”
In my opinion, this amendment was what set off and gave
legs to American liberalism. It allowed “feelings and
emotion” to edge out common sense.
But he doesn't.
We also fought the Japanese, and there were many living in the U.S. as citizens at the time. Whether you agree with the interment camp idea or not, Hirohito sympathizers running around blowing things up in our backyards were one less thing we had to worry about in prosecuting the war.
Am I thinking what you’re thinking?
Neither Saddam nor Muammar were keeping anyone away from the Great Satan. Forgot about 9/11?
Besides that, how about Saddam funding Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood)? How about Pan Am Flight 103, on Gaddafi’s part?
For him to have the will thereof, he’d have to completely turn 180° from what he currently believes.
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