Posted on 08/21/2014 10:39:24 AM PDT by maggief
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunni militants are working on the capability to wipe out a city inside the United States.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has long threatened to carry out a catastrophic attack on American soil, with a spokesman recently boasting that the militant group would fly its flag over the White House.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said ISIS members are “rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city and people just can’t believe that’s happening.”
“Yes, it’s really significant what’s happening,” he added during a local television interview on Wednesday.
President Obama has stepped up U.S. air attacks against the group in Iraq after it posted a video online showing the execution of American photojournalist James Foley.
On Thursday, U.S. Central Command announced it had completed six more attacks near the Mosul Dam, making a total of 90 strikes since Obama authorized them on Aug. 8.
Inhofe said that despite the pounding by U.S. forces, ISIS could still inspire followers to attack stateside.
He also slammed the president for not coming up with a strategy to defeat ISIS.
“He's going to have to come up with something that we're going to do because they're holding another hostage in place and the problem is the president, quite frankly, says all these things and he never does them,” Inhofe said.
ISIS is believed to be holding at least four other U.S. prisoners, including journalist Steven Joel Sotloff, who appeared in the ISIS video showing Foley’s execution. The man speaking in that video threatened that Sotloff would be killed next.
If they do, I say we mobilize the welfare army and send them out to fight.
This is what pisses me off about the modern day "Republican Party."
Yeah, I get it Obama's complete and total failure on anything related to foreign policy and the War on Terror has caused this - but for crying out loud the President is responsible to direct the miitary and his advisors to come up with a strategy to crush and defeat ISIS in this case.
If Inhofe is seriously waiting around for President Narcissist to "come up with a plan" he's going to be waiting a long, long time. The boy in the White House hasn't a clue. Never has, never will.
IF they chose Cleveland or Detroit, would anyone notice a difference?
I guess we will just *wait* and see, won’t we?
“IF they chose Cleveland or Detroit, would anyone notice a difference?”
I would if it were Cleveland! I’d lose my favorite Chinese restaurants!
Los Angeles is on the terrorist hit list. They plotted to ram airliners into the tallest building in downtown LA.
LOL they would have to target every golf course on the east coast.
They could set off a pressure cooker bomb in Boston, go on the lamb,
Quit it; you’re making me hungry...
Really, mass transit kills enough people that IS would have a hard time competing.
lol...
I hope it isn’t Ferguson...that would be racist.
“great, telegraphing another potential false flag from this exploit-the -manufactured-crisis administration.”
Playing dumb isn’t a good strategy either. We know these animals want to destroy us. We need to be very vigilant.
Look at Israel for example where the animals had built a whole system of tunnels right under Israel nose in preparation for a massive attack.
I don’t think it would be LA because it’s so spread out. I think a target will be a city that has a distinct center and a smaller diameter. There are many which fit the bill.
How about a golf course?
Even if these cromagnons blow-up a city, I bet the LIBs/DIMs try to pin it on the TEA Party.
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