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I don't think they've really tried.
Yeah there was a good reason for it.....they could never control the Air Space.
I don't think they've really tried.
So even though JV ISIS isn't islamic, apparently they are threatening to turn the US into a muslim province. Wonder what thats about?
And for those of you who haven't figured it out-we are at war and have been for some time.
'We will cut off your head in the White House': ISIS threatens to behead Obama and turn the U.S. into a 'Muslim province' in new execution video
Islamic State militants have threatened to behead Barack Obama and turn the U.S. into a Muslim province in the latest gruesome video to emerge from their self-styled caliphate. The footage shows a black-clad jihadist standing over a Kurdish soldier who, in a sickening climax to the video, has his head cut off.
Read more: ISIS threatens to behead Obama in the White House | Daily Mail Online
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Threatening the life of a US president is against federal law and knows no borders. The Secret Service must be deployed this instant with a Seal Team to apphend these suspects and bring them to Gitmo immediately for a long talk.
Just like the FBI is tracking down the non terrorists who killed Ambassador Stephens and burned down the Benghazi station. It is only a matter of time before they are found and brought to justice as Holder's DOJ always gets its man except if they're Democrats or Mexican illegals.
Justice must triumph for the American way to survive.
I mean, I think in general the war efforts have been mishandled and poorly planned and there is no real goal other than forever war. But I don't think Obama made ISIS, the war effort led to an environment that plays well into terrorist propaganda and recruiting and they've done just that.
We know which side these monsters fear-and its not the left.
Greetings, F&L. :2wave:
What's with the crowd that always gathers to watch a beheading or someone getting thrown off a building or a child getting his arm run over by a car because he stole food? We'd be better off if we just bought everyone over there a TV, and let them get their kicks that way, the ghoulish savages! :thumbdown:!
They don't really fear anyone, they know that Americans, regardless of side, lack the cajones to do what needs to be done to get rid of them permanently.
A forever war isn't the goal but it very well might be the reality, especially if we're not willing to do what needs to be done to actually end the war. The American public doesn't have the stomach to fight the way that ISIS fights, which is what is required in this new war.
Yeah but its not just our problem. Moreover they may not be afraid to die for the most part. But there are some ways they don't want to. Knowing they cannot obtain what they have faith in.
It IS the reality and I think the echelon of the Military Industrial Complex saw the possibilities right away.
A secret, hidden enemy, no one could see. Scattered across the globe in dirty little **** holes no one cares about anyway where they can blast away at will..and the knowledge from past experience that with every bombing more terrorists are made.
It's a perfect storm for MIC.
That's true, but since we've spent so many years cleaning up everyone else's mess, they all expect us to do it now. Europe has a lot more to worry about, they're closer to the Middle East, but you don't see them flying a lot of sorties against IS, do you? Only when we *BUY* their loyalty will they put a couple of planes in the air and make a couple of passes, but not too many because they don't really want to upset the extremist Muslims. They're doing it to placate us, not to solve the problem. They know we'll keep on bombing in their stead, they just have to make a show of it.
Well the Brits and some did say they would not put troops on the ground in Syria. Still that leaves them and the French with the Italians to go and clean out Libya.
Let the Russians and Iran with Assad take out whats in Syria. We will handle whats in Afghanistan while killing some more Taliban so they don't think they are exempt.
Then Let the Saud and Sunni go and clean up their mess in Iraq. With a little help from some Canadians and Aussies and any others that want to get in some good hunting.
The French flew what? Two sorties before giving up? And that was before Charlie Hebdo. Now they know that they have let radical Muslims into their country who are only too happy to launch attacks against the French people. They'll never do it again. Neither will the Italians. The Russians have no horse in this race, they don't care. You totally misunderstand the nature of this conflict, I'm sorry to say. America has trained the world that they are never responsible for their own fights. It will take many years and decades to dissuade them from that belief.
The single hottest tickets in the world are for death penalty executions...anywhere. The highest priced black market videos are snuff films.
ISIL is not a bunch of illiterate madmen, but cold, calculating assassins with psychology degrees. They know the US media will pay for visuals like this if they could get away with it. They know Americans will be horrified and drawn to it at the same time and they know you are squeamish when it comes to children and women. I once saw a quote from an Iranian madman arrested here who said in effect 'Americans are too easily sickened by real war. We only need to incinerate some babies and they will cry to their mothers.'
This is why I have been so opposed to the self censorship of the media about Islam, cartoons etc., we have allowed them free access to horror, but save them the discomfort over fear of reprisals. The only way to get these guys is to make them totally uncomfortable with everything....and that means attacking Islam itself just as I would attack the Christian Church if such atrocities were carried out in it's name. Just as I rail at my own Baptist denomination for allowing the Westboro people to use the name. We must show them how ridiculous we see them, just as we showed Japan and Hitler what fools we could make of them. Charlie Chaplin did more to advance the cause with one movie more than all the efforts of the American Jewish community. If Islam is so tame in practice they will, as other faiths preach, forgive.
Since 911, IMO, the west has been negligent in holding legitimate Islam to account. AL-Qaeda and ISIL get $ from somewhere, and it's flowing through the Islamic world, not Christians, Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists. It's not the Russians or Chinese, it's Muslims. That has to be stopped either through co-operation or force, but it has to stop and if Muslims in America don't like it, take it up with terrorists. If they're really American, they will be eager to co-operate.
It's not a hidden enemy, they're not hiding, they're right out there in plain sight. The problem with this enemy is that there is no way to differentiate the fighters from the civilians because there are no civilians, everyone is a potential fighter and we don't have the stomach to go in there and blow up every single living human being, man, woman and child, down to the absolutely last one, because if we don't, they'll come back at us from the survivors. This war is different from every other war we have ever fought. We have the mindset that we have to protect the civilians and only kill the combatants and we need to keep giving them the opportunity to stop and sign a treaty. This isn't that war. There are no civilians and there will be no treaty, they must all be completely wiped out, down to the smallest infant and the very act of fighting this war is just going to make more people hate us and become more radicalized. This is a war that will have millions of casualties. That's nothing the American people are willing to deal with.
How can that be accomplished without sinking to their level, which most people would find objectionable? Look at the recent condemnation from some on waterboarding and other forms of extracting information from those who would kill us if they had the chance. I remember seeing a reference once which talked about "rivers of blood" - is that possible? I suppose it is when you hear their threat of killing hundreds of millions of people. Unbelievable!
Oh?
The how come ISIS was allowed to grow? Was Obama aware at the time, or is he lying again?
Please provide us with a list of locations of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan and anywhere else they may be...and if they whereabouts is so certain why is the NSA tapping every ****ing phone on the planet?
Hey look, over there another terrorist camp we're ignoring until we cut off some heads
A forever war isn't the goal but it very well might be the reality, especially if we're not willing to do what needs to be done to actually end the war. The American public doesn't have the stomach to fight the way that ISIS fights, which is what is required in this new war.
Actually I think there are two possibilities given the reality of this multi-administration war. Either forever war IS the goal, or everyone running the war efforts are idiots.
And I don't want to have the stomach to fight the way that ISIS fights. They use terrorism, they abduct civilians and chop off their heads, they are complete barbarians. I don't want us to be barbarians, we're advanced and civilized and understand, at least on some part, the morality of humanity. I don't want to stoop to their level, that puts us on their level. Playing to the lowest common denominator serves no one.
The unfortunate reality is, that may be the only way to stop them. It doesn't matter what level you want to fight at, it might very well be the case that the only way to take them out is to genocide every last one of them. Between that and keeping this war running for years or decades in the future, I'm entirely willing to put them all 6-feet under. The only thing that matters is winning the war. If that's the only way to win, so be it.
I don't know if that's true. I think that as we are running the campaign, that is not going to produce results. But I refuse to believe that betraying ourselves and our values is the only way we can win something like this.
No it is not, but neither is not infinity war. Intelligent engagement with end goal in mind, that’s what is necessary. All you’re trying to do is sell me on 14 years of failure. If you can’t get the job done, then you can’t get it done; that’s all there is to it. You have to try a new method that can possibly do the job. 14 years of failure and no plan, that’s what you’ve given me as “addressing” things. That’s not good enough.
No, not at all. It's not forever war or nothing, that's stupid. There are possible avenues to explore that are not the demonstrated failed path of imperial policing.
That, or you'd have to likely engage in joint police actions instead of straight up military strikes, and propaganda. Lots of pro-American propaganda. Some of the countries are straight up hostile to solving the problem, but if you're going to intervene militarily you need a plan and a way to execute that plan. Stupidity cannot be allowed.