43 burned alive near last weeks burning of 45 captives. So, how is Obama's policy of denial working out?
Fox News: The jihadist group Islamic State, or IS, burned alive on
Saturday 43 people kidnapped in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, a
security official told Efe.
The IS militants caged their hostages, who were mostly police and
members of the pro-government Sunni militias called Salvation Councils,
then set them on fire.
The radical group kidnapped the victims more than a week ago in the Al Baghdadi area of Anbar province.
Last Feb. 17, the IS executed and burned more than 40 people in the
same area, most of them members of the police and the Salvation
Councils.
Anbar province is largely dominated by the jihadists, and Al Baghdadi
was one of the few cities where the Iraqi government was still in
control.
Where was the outrage when Bush killed and tortured people in Iraq?
ReplyDeleteIt was ok then, not ok now.
https://www.iraqbodycount.org/
Hypocrisy on display.
Obama makes it clear, intelligently that this is not a religious war. These aren't Muslims, they are terrorists. ISIS wants legitimacy as a religious group. Stupid conservatives want to play right into their hands and give them that legitimacy by declaring a war against Islamists.
ReplyDeleteThe current ignorance, hate and bigotry pushed by the GOP is chronicled here by Dr. Maddow. It's truly disgusting, ignorant and above all - UNAMERICAN.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/obama-anti-muslim-bigotry-has-no-place-in-us-401221187568?cid=sm_fb_maddow
ISIS is a radical muslim organization. They pray, read the Koran, and give allegiance to Allah. To deny this claim, only increases their motivation to "prove Obama wrong." Since Obama will not acknowledge the ideological coefficient, he will not go after their perverted ideology. THAT is stupid.
DeleteMaddow is only a Marxist activist and has no expertise as to foreign affairs. That you consider her some kind of authority is laughable.
"Al-Qaeda and ISIL, and groups like it, are desperate for legitimacy. They try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of Islam -- that is why ISIL presumes to declare themselves "The Islamic State" -- they propagate the notion that America, and the west generally, is at war with Islam. That is how they recruit. That is how they try to radicalize young people. We must never accept the premise that they put forward. Because it is lie. Nor should we grant these terrorists the religious legitimacy they seek. They are not religious leaders, they are terrorists. ... Of course, the terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology." - PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
ReplyDeleteSmithson and his ilk are doing everything they can to promote the legitimacy of ISIS as an Islamic movement and the US participation in a religious war.
These are the words of a man who does not know how to write a budget proposal. Two of his budgets failed in the Senate, 97 - 0 and 99 - 0 . I mean, how stupid do you have to be to write a proposal for which you can't a single vote out of your stinking party ??????!!!!! But wait, there is more. He submitted two more budgets but this time, to the House. One failed 414 - 0 and the other failed 416 - 2.
DeleteWhat Obama and his silly supporters don't understand is this: no American denials change what ISIS thinks of itself. His (Obama's) strategy is absolutely meaningless, and, in fact, probably counter productive. I don't doubt that ISIS is all the more violent because Obama denies their very name.
If he can't wirte a budget, why does anyone believe he can think things out, on any level ?
non sequitur.
DeleteContinue being stupid while we continue to fight ISIS.
ISIS is losing, sorry to disappoint you.
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8085197/is-isis-losing
Maybe you should the full article before declaring victory, Slicik. The author of your referenced article sees "victory" years down the road.
DeleteHere are the closing words of that article:
All of these factors have put ISIS on the path to major losses, but that doesn't make the group's complete destruction inevitable, much less quick or painless. And there's no reason to believe that ISIS's defeat would solve the underlying problems that led to its rise, and will continue to plague Iraq and Syria for some time.
Even if Iraqi troops manage to topple ISIS in their country — which isn't guaranteed, and would take months or years of difficult fighting — the group's individual fighters could reform as yet another Sunni insurgency. ISIS, after all, is in many ways just one chapter in the Iraqi sectarian war that began in 2003, and it might not be the last one.
Syria is in even worse shape. Though ISIS is stalled there, it will likely have a safe haven for as long the Syrian civil war remains divided between several competing factions. Decisively addressing the factors that allowed ISIS's rise in Syria means ending both the civil war and the sectarianism that Bashar al-Assad cultivated since it began; those problems could be with us for generations.
In the short term, ISIS's setbacks in Syria have had the perverse effect of primarily benefitting not ordinary Syrians but rather al-Qaeda, ISIS's main competitor there for the mantle of Sunni extremism. As ISIS has retreated, the al-Qaeda franchise Jabhat al-Nusra has advanced, standing to gain both territory and recruits.
That even the rollback of ISIS could come with such terrible consequences is a testament to just how bad things are in Iraq and, especially, Syria. Even still, ISIS is perhaps the world's most vicious and inhumane militant group. That it is slowly losing its grip on its territory — and, with it, its ability to murder and torment the people of the Middle East — is worth appreciating.
How stupid are you? There is really nothing about victory in these words, certainly not present-time victory.