[SeekAndFind]

RE: Is ISIS ‘An Existential Threat’?

Before reading the article, I glanced at the author’s name, and after doing that, I already know his answer — “no”.

[cripplecreek]

With an open border its a direct physical threat.

[Responsibility2nd]

Let Middle Easterners take the lead in fighting this newest Middle East war.

Worth repeating in bold font...

Let Middle Easterners take the lead in fighting this newest Middle East war.

As much as it pains me to say, Obama is right. Bomb the Shiite outta IS. But do not send ground forces.

[soycd]

Radical islam and the teaching thereof to youth is the biggest threat. Isolate or eliminate those teaching this trash and the problem will go away.

[Diogenesis]

"What difference does it make?"

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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan

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[elhombrelibre]

It's noteworthy that ISIS is so violent that it was thrown out of al Qaeda. Al Qaeda, and Pat may have forgotten this, attacked the US thirteen years ago on the 11th of September, killing over three thousand people in the largest terrorist attack ever on the US. Prior to that al Qaeda was part of an ongoing international Islamists terrorist conspiracy dedicated to extending Islamists control through cruelty and terror with the US and its allies being frequent targets. Pat may be right to point out that the word “existential” overstates the case, but it's a point without much merit other than to be pedantic. Pat's melon spins with hot rhetoric to defend Assad, Putin, and in the past Adolf Hitler. Wouldn't it be grand if he was as worried about the consequences of terrorism as he is about semantics?

[elhombrelibre]

Pat’s kind of a one trick pony. Like the Marxist, he knows one thing. In his case, it’s “isolationism.” No other ideas can penetrate his ideological committment to it.

[Night Hides Not]

It boggles the mind that a military force of 7,000 - 10,000 could control such a large area. They should be a target-rich environment for our forces.

Unfortunately, our military leaders are more concerned about putting women in combat arms positions than defeating our enemies.

[plain talk]

ISIS is a threat to the whole world. A coalition of air power should inflict enough damage so Iraq and Syria can finish them off. The problem is Obama hates the Iraqi and Syrian leaders and seems to like Sunni extremists.

[mikrofon]

Is ISIS ‘An Existential Threat’?

"It depends on what the meaning of 'IS IS' ..."