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Surprisingly thorough, informative and important article from The Atlantic.
1 posted on 02/16/2015 10:22:09 PM PST by SMCC1
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Nice post. That looks to be well worth reading carefully. Bookmarked.


2 posted on 02/16/2015 10:29:59 PM PST by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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NUKE ISIS


3 posted on 02/16/2015 10:32:04 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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Thanks for posting this, I understand it’s an important piece. Ace of Spades gave it not on, but two posts, said it was the most important piece of US Journalism in 10 years (or something like that, too lazy to check).

I’ll read it tomorrow, I have to sleep tonight!


4 posted on 02/16/2015 10:35:42 PM PST by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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With an enemy like ISIS, I feel safer with a well-armed citizenry.


5 posted on 02/16/2015 10:37:06 PM PST by windsorknot
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Just a bunch of random people who like to go around killing other random people for reasons nobody understands.


6 posted on 02/16/2015 11:02:51 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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Well done.

Excellent depth and width.


9 posted on 02/16/2015 11:09:24 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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I haven’t read the article yet, but my answer would be:

1) ISIS is what Obama was put into office by the Muslim Brotherhood to enable, fund, arm, and protect;

2) They want to saw the head off every Jew and every Christian.


12 posted on 02/16/2015 11:31:09 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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I agree... mostly: It's notable that this article is in The Atlantic, and it should be required reading for a whole lot of people.

But, granted that there are some interesting details in the article, very little of what it says in general is any surprise whatsoever, to any one who has been watching at all, as ISIS has come onto the scene.

That we have so many "leaders" who seem unaware of what ISIS is, or reject that reality for one reason or another, is scary indeed. It's also troubling that we have so many people, even here at FR, who think a threat like this can be ignored, or left to the Muslims to fight it out. I see no sign that "modern" Islam (ie., King Abdullah, Pres. Sisi, etc., can exterminate ISIS on their own. That failure will lead to many dead US civilians. But, similarly, unless the West plans to nuke all Muslim lands, I also do not think the West can do it without some help from "liberal" Muslims.

I suggest any and all who read this article forward it to as many people as possible.

13 posted on 02/16/2015 11:34:57 PM PST by Paul R.
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Bookmarked.

“which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail.”

If that’s their plan that leaves the rest of the world no other options except for complete enililation of Isis.

I think obamas state dept rep just said that poverty is the problem which tells me they are setting the stage for funding Isis and will call it “aid”


14 posted on 02/16/2015 11:39:29 PM PST by barmag25 (Cruz 2016)
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It is a very good article but there are some items I'd dispute, seems to be bits of the White House spin tucked into it.

The rise of ISIS, after all, happened only because our previous occupation created space for Zarqawi and his followers.

No.... Zarqawi and his followers were already inside of Iraq both in the north near Iran's border, and in Baghdad before our invasion. They had all the space they wanted.

This was due most likely to al Dhouri who began pushing Islamic endtime mythology in Saddam's regime as Saddam courted islamist allies to use as proxies after OBL's fatwa in the late 90s. The regime used Zarqawi and Krekar's groups to assassinate Kurdish leaders before 9/11. After we hit Afghanistan in 2001 more of his people fled to Iran and then into Iraq to join Zarqawi.

15 posted on 02/16/2015 11:40:50 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Don,t worry. Obama and his white house advisors won,t read

It. They will be reading

Golf digest


18 posted on 02/16/2015 11:51:55 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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one of the keys is to kill al Baghdadi

like bin Laden , we need to go in and grab him , shoot him dead , and in his case , show the pictures / video .

It was a mistake not to show a dead OBL .
Show the SEALs pissing on his corpse . make the ISIS go insane and they will make more mistake in their rage .

They all need to be defeated and killed , in detail . No quarter , no remainder . No seed


19 posted on 02/16/2015 11:53:23 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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It cannot be repeated often enough: When “Obama” calls ISIS “ISIL”—Islamic State in the Levant—he is encouraging “ISIL” to invade Israel and murder every Jew.


20 posted on 02/16/2015 11:55:35 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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Thanks for posting this, it is good to see an article with some depth for a change.


21 posted on 02/17/2015 12:34:25 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Interesting- says Maqdisi is al Baghdadi's mentor...

Maqdisis was involved in the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure.

22 posted on 02/17/2015 12:43:04 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Here is an article on the mentor of Baghdadi, al Maqdisi:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/06/jordan-salafist-maqdisi-released-prison-silence-isis-nusra.html#


33 posted on 02/17/2015 1:32:32 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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ISIS is doing what it is doing because it can get away with it. By doing what it is doing, it has communicated that it believes only in the language of extreme violence and death.

Therefore, extreme violence and death should be communicated to them until they stop their murder.

Nothing else will work, because they acknowledge nothing else.

It’s really very simple.


34 posted on 02/17/2015 1:39:30 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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This is a license to kill


42 posted on 02/17/2015 2:28:46 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3258315/posts

Note to self.


44 posted on 02/17/2015 2:56:29 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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Harf says all they really need are jobs at Taco Bell and then everything will be fine.


45 posted on 02/17/2015 3:03:45 AM PST by Bullish (Not even a smidgeon of integrity or sanity in this whitehouse.)
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