Expect a very big Jordanian response.
I sure hope so. It's all on Jordan now. If they actually do execute all their prisoners, they will have saved not only themselves but the West.
If they don't - and I'm sure Obama is on the phone with them even now persuading them not to do it - then brace yourselves, everybody.
“Expect a very big Jordanian response”
The King of Jordan made a televised address to the nation today, and flew to the US for an unscheduled meeting with the President. He is in with the Senate Foreign Affairs committee now (Monday afternoon).
Apparently, the women that the terrorists were demanding in exchange for the Jordanian pilot, and a few others, are to be executed in the next few hours.
It was atrocious how they murdered that pilot. It is clear to me that some of these IS folks are becoming blood-crazed. Psycho killing sadists. Twisted by their experience and becoming addicted to thrill from killing, needed a higher dose as time goes on.
The offense to the influential family and tribe of the pilot must be revenged, and it looks like the King is all on board with that. I believe that Bedouin public opinion in the Kingdom will also be shocked and offended by how they executed this uniformed combatant. He was a model young man, worthy of respect.
The King knows well that he is high on the target list of IS and the Muslim Brotherhood, if not next. This watershed event is an opportunity to mobilize the public in Jordan against the magnitude of the threat.
IS is accumulating a swarm of pissed off enemies. The French deployed their aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The Japanese are planning retribution. Now it looks like a mobilization of some significance is occurring in Jordan.
I am predicting a 2015 “Summer of Death” for IS.