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Destroy the Caliphate!
American Thinker ^ | 8/21/2014 | Brian W. Lynch

Posted on 08/21/2014 4:59:35 AM PDT by markomalley

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, the Islamic State posted a video on YouTube showing the decapitation of American journalist James Foley. A second American, Steven Joel Sotloff, was paraded in front of the camera. Foley’s executioner, totally clad in black and speaking with an English accent, stated “the life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision.”

It remains to be seen how the administration will respond to this cowardly war crime. Up to this point, their approach has been weak-kneed and contradictory. While the administration reluctantly authorized “limited airstrikes,” it stressed that the United States “will not be dragged into another war in Iraq” nor act as the Iraqi Air Force. James Foley’s execution demonstrates that a more forceful, direct role for the United States military against the Islamic State is required. To an understandably war weary U.S. public, the thought of more blood and treasure being expended to defeat the Islamic State may sound unpleasant. However, at this point, there is no other choice.

Limited airstrikes are not enough. We have to unleash the full military might of the United States on the Islamic State. That may mean boots on the ground -- be it conventional or Special Operations forces. That means that Islamic State forces, equipment, and infrastructure should be targeted relentlessly by U.S. air power. There should be no place in Iraq, the Middle East, or the world for that matter that these Islamist fascists feel safe or have sanctuary. Furthermore, the President should make absolutely clear that any group or country providing financial assistance or quarter to the Islamic State will face the wrath of the U.S. military.

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Unfortunately, I do not think that Mr. Lynch's suggestion goes far enough. These people (ISIS) are absolutely convinced of the morality and rightness of their cause. Without Divine intervention, I see that there is no way that they will ever change that view (the only thing is that they may put it on the back burner for a while if they think they cannot prevail at this time).

Unfortunately, the only solution to this problem is that prescribed by God in Deuteronomy:

Deut 7:1-8

[1] When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:

[2] And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

[3] Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

[4] For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee. [NB: the result of so-called tolerance is like a bad strain of yeast infecting the whole loaf]

[5] But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.

[6] Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.

[7] Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:

[8] But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.

[9] And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:

[10] And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.

I say "unfortunately" because I don't particularly want this outcome...but that it's becoming more and more apparent that it will come down to this eventually whether we like it or not.

Also unfortunate is the point that by the time the Left has no alternative but to recognize that this is the case, it will be too late.

1 posted on 08/21/2014 4:59:35 AM PDT by markomalley
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It remains to be seen how the administration will respond to this cowardly war crime.

No, actually we just did see the whole thing. Strongly worded statement, then golf.

2 posted on 08/21/2014 5:02:55 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: markomalley

Every civilization at hubris eventually meets the gods of the copybook headings. Survival depends on a swift return to reality and the fearsome response it requires.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm


3 posted on 08/21/2014 5:05:49 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: markomalley

I suppose we’ll just keep screwing around with half measures until NYC and LA eventually get turned into radioactive piles of rubble.

By-the-book islam is incompatible with Western Civilization. This is an inescapable fact to anyone who has paid attention and is honest enough to realize it.


4 posted on 08/21/2014 5:24:26 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: markomalley

ISIS is evil epitomized and their numbers are growing with Muslims joining them from all over the world. They are the true face of Islam.


5 posted on 08/21/2014 5:24:28 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: markomalley

We have a secondary Caliphate developing in Ferguson Missouri


6 posted on 08/21/2014 5:25:53 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: markomalley
Everyone Who Wants To Destroy ISIS Needs To Know One Hard Truth

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Just about everyone agrees that the world would be a better place without the brutal terrorist group known as ISIS (or Islamic State or ISIL).

On Wednesday, Barack Obama compared the group to a "cancer" whose spread must be contained and that the group "has no place in the 21st century." And Secretary of State John Kerry tweeted that "ISIL must be destroyed/will be crushed."

But there is one thing everyone must realize in the anti-ISIS crusade: Given the momentum that ISIS has built over the past two years in Syria and Iraq, it would be very difficult to dislodge them from the region. To actually do it would require a full-scale war.

"If destroying ISIL becomes the near-term policy goal—which seems the likely outcome of saying you are going to 'roll back' the group—then 10,000-15,000 troops vastly understates the true commitment, which will actually require years, direct military action on both sides of the Iraq/Syria border, tens (if not hundreds) of billions of dollars, and many more than 15,000 troops," counterterrorism expert Brian Fishman writes in War on the Rocks. "ISIL is an inherently resilient organization—look how far they have come since getting 'rolled back' during the Surge in 2007 when 150,000 American troops were occupying the country."

ISIS has gone through many iterations since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and is now at its most powerful point as they control a vast swath of territory across Syria and Iraq. What has become a de facto criminal petrostate brings in nearly $12 million a month in revenues from extortion and other shady practices in the Iraqi city of Mosul alone in addition to $1 million to $3 million a day selling oil illegally.

Mike Nudelman/Business Insider

"So long as it exists, the Islamic State’s borders will always be bloody," Fishman writes.

"No one has offered a plausible strategy to defeat [ISIS] that does not include a major U.S. commitment on the ground and the renewal of functional governance on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian border," Fishman adds. "And no one will, because none exists."

That said, there are moves the U.S. can make beyond bombing ISIS positions near the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Erbil (or Arbil) and the Mosul dam.

"The breadth of the Islamic State's presence in the open expanses of Syria and Iraq is testimony to its prowess," former Iraq and Kurd advisor Michael Pregent and journalist Michael Weiss wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "But it is also testimony to its vulnerability to destruction by U.S. F-18s."

To that point, some ISIS commanders have retreated back into Syria amid t=the ongoing U.S. airstrikes.

"U.S. has total air superiority and ISIS isn't used to fighting this kind of enemy," Aaron Stein, a fellow at the London-based think tank The Royal United Services Institute, told WSJ. "So they've turned tail" to an area where they have much more strategic depth.

Garrett Khoury, Director of Research and Content for The Eastern Project, writes that the situation calls for an inclusive government in Iraq, weapons and training for the Iraqi Security Forces and the Kurds, and an international conference on confronting ISIS.

And it's increasingly clear that something more must be done.

James J. Jeffrey, the American ambassador to Iraq from 2010 to 2012 and a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute,writes in Foreign Policy that the sooner the U.S. begins a sustained campaign against ISIS, "the less complicated our involvement will be, the greater our chances of success, and the more likely IS's forces can be defeated before they tear apart the region completely — and directly threaten America."

But any sustained military campaign involving U.S. troops would also require an about-face from an increasingly isolationist America.

"The country must be ready to accept the sacrifices necessary to achieve grand political ends," Fishman concludes. "Until then, any call to 'defeat ISIL' that is not forthright about what that will require is actually an argument for expensive failure."

7 posted on 08/21/2014 5:27:08 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: markomalley

Once established and the boundaries firmed up, the effort will lose stem. The sane will begin to exert influence and the insane will leave for where ever home is. The monied interests will begin to take control.

The process will take years


8 posted on 08/21/2014 5:27:23 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Thanks for this great post. The graphic clearly indicates the de facto partitioning that is in process.

There will be no return to the status quo ante that was in effect artificial any way.


9 posted on 08/21/2014 5:31:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: markomalley

Islam must be destroyed.


10 posted on 08/21/2014 5:35:14 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: markomalley

After 1,400 years and 270 million dead by the had of Islamists, it’s not getting any better.

A MUST SEE for any Freeper:

Dr. Bill Warner

“Why We Are Afraid” (45 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y


11 posted on 08/21/2014 5:41:05 AM PDT by zipper (In Their Heart Of Hearts, Every Democrat Is A Communist.)
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To: 1010RD

Bttt


12 posted on 08/21/2014 5:41:58 AM PDT by kalee
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To: Wyatt's Torch

That’s a very helpful map (for me). Thanks for posting. I couldn’t really get in my mind the reach of ISIS at this time.


13 posted on 08/21/2014 5:52:01 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: markomalley

When, A U.S. President is a Sunni/Muslim Brotherhood IS Member, bad stuff happens in the Middle East and around the world.

Now, we have an excellent insight into cui bono, or who benefits from all of the past lies and bs about what has happened and is happening in Arab/Islamo lands.

This should be read by any us with questions about what has happened and is happening in the Arab lands.

http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/08/u-s-president-muslim-brotherhood/


14 posted on 08/21/2014 6:02:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Our Sunni White house isn't surprised at the beheading. They are surprised at the publicity)
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To: zipper

“After 1,400 years and 270 million dead by the had of Islamists, it’s not getting any better.”

Greenfield: What is Wrong with ISIS, is What is Wrong with Islam
Sultan Knish blog ^ | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

“The religious and ethnic strife in the Middle East out of which ISIS emerged and which has become its brand, goes back over a thousand years. If support for terrorism emerges from radicalization, then the armies of Islam were radicalized in the time of Mohammed and have never been de-radicalized. “

“Terrorism is not reactive. As ISIS has shown us, it has a vision for the future. The Caliphate, like the Reich, is a utopia which can only be created through the mass murder and repression of all those who do not belong. This isn’t a new vision. It’s the founding vision of Islam.

“What is wrong with ISIS is what is wrong with Islam.”

“We can defeat ISIS, but we should remember that its roots are in the hearts of the Sunni Muslims who have supported it. ISIS and Al Qaeda are only symptoms of the larger problem. “

Excerpt, go to the link below for the oped.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3195009/posts


15 posted on 08/21/2014 6:04:42 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Our Sunni White house isn't surprised at the beheading. They are surprised at the publicity)
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To: markomalley

Destroy Mecca, that will get their attention.


16 posted on 08/21/2014 6:21:35 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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17 posted on 08/21/2014 6:23:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: markomalley

“IS” has declared itself to be a sovereign state, and has declared war on us. It has murdered an American.
The USA has the right to destroy “IS” and turn it into molten desert sand.
I don’t like war, but war to destroy an agressor is morally justified.
If we don’t do it now, we’ll have to do it later.


18 posted on 08/21/2014 6:33:06 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: FourtySeven
Here's a better one that Drudge just linked:


19 posted on 08/21/2014 6:52:00 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: markomalley

O-bung-hole has been arming ISIS, allowing them to run amok, now he’s bombing them. Smoke and mirrors. The ultimate goal is to continue supporting the jihadists.


20 posted on 08/21/2014 6:55:12 AM PDT by csvset
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