Posted on 12/28/2014 5:07:02 AM PST by C19fan
Dear friends, we are slowly recovering from the stress the journey into the “Islamic State” has induced on us. Frederic, my son, has lost several pounds. Of course, I have been aware that both, meeting with ISIS and American and Syrian bomb attacks, could put me into high risk. In Mosul, low-flying US aircraft circled over us numerous times. And our “apartment” in the Syrian town Raqqa was largely destroyed by a Syrian bomb while we were staying in Mosul, Iraq. Hence, our last night in Raqqa had to be spent in a bombed-out and glass-splittered apartment.
It’s difficult to uncover the truth without taking a risk, and I had needed authentic footage for a planned book about the ISIS. That’s something you only get by going there. In fact, I have done so for each of my books and thus traveled to areas of conflict many times. Moreover, I had received a security guarantee from the “caliphate”. There just was no way to know if it was genuine! Hence, all of my friends and family smelled a rat and tried to discourage me from taking the journey. But I always follow my gut feeling.
(Excerpt) Read more at juergentodenhoefer.de ...
He’s a modern day Walter Duranty.
The oil is moved on roads in tank trucks. It would seem easy to bomb the roads and bomb the trucks with drones. If you could end the ransom business and bomb the export routes ISIS would go bankrupt.
This isn't being done because...?
He blames GWB for ISIS? Why not blame the radical Muslims?
I do think, however, that deposing dictators is a complicated thing, and that we in the western world do not understand all aspects of it. The failure to consider the plight of the ME Christians seemed to be not considered before we deposed Sadam Hussein. A similar situation is being considered now regarding Syria. And, BO’s silly support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt proved to be a fiasco.
SOaB.
He got me to read too much before:
A. Religion of peace.
B. Bush’s fault.
Suck it, Hans.
He calls gwb iraq war a folly... He is a tool of terror... The folly was not demanding sectarian government and freedom of religion in iraqs constitution and leaving a strong presences there. Obamas folly of leaving
I agree with one of his two conclusions. ISIS is the biggest global threat. However blaming Geo W Bush’s “illegal “ war with Iraq as the cause de ISIS is a Germanic political stretch.
There are many conservatives who now believe that removing Sadam was a bad mistake. We have traded a devil for an even worse one.
Jürgen Todenhöfer
Is this a nom d’guerre or for real? Todenhöfer, The one from or the keeper of the house of death.
I get......
ISIS exists because of GWB’s ‘illegal’ war.
We should do nothing about the fighters returning to their home countries.
I call bullshit.
I was thinking the same thing: this is either a morbid coincidence or a pen name.
One thing he says is true. ISIS will not be defeated from the air. Obama’s “coalition” is a mirage. Unless there is brave, well trained committed infantry that engages them directly, kills them, destroys their sanctuaries, and permantly seizes their territory and wealth, they will remain active, dangerous and continue to grow. Also Western nations must take severe action against its citizens who join them.
“He calls gwb iraq war a folly... He is a tool of terror... The folly was not demanding sectarian government and freedom of religion in iraqs constitution and leaving a strong presences there. Obamas folly of leaving”
Now we know why he was granted a pass. They knew what he would write from his past.
The right past got a present pass.
I have been aware that both, meeting with ISIS and American and Syrian bomb attacks, could put me into high risk... our "apartment" in the Syrian town Raqqa was largely destroyed by a Syrian bomb while we were staying in Mosul, Iraq... I had received a security guarantee from the "caliphate". There just was no way to know if it was genuine! Hence, all of my friends and family smelled a rat and tried to discourage me from taking the journey. But I always follow my gut feeling.I do that too. My gut feeling is, don't travel in areas where ISIS is in control. And I'll bet my gut is bigger than his gut.
I can’t figure why ANYBODY would want to live in a
s****hole like Syria-perhaps he like the company of terrorists.
Any way he gets what he deserves for living there.
A few thoughts:
1. ISIS serves as a “roach motel” to attack the Jihadis from the West to the s**t-hole that is Syria and Iraq.
2. It is fine if right-wing groups in Europe “play into the hands” of ISIS by confrontation with Muslims. In 2015, right wing groups will still be vastly larger than the Jihadi groups and will serve to drive the jihadi-wannabees from Europe.
3. ISIS has had some initial success, but while they may be motivated, they lack the technology and resources to achieve their long term goals. In fact, after their big victories in Iraq, they have failed to make much headway. This is because they are on everyone’s radar now.
ISIS is all Bush’s fault - nothing to do with O’bummer giving them a free pass for months - making sure they could get their hands on the MRAPS and a plethora of other US weaponry - including a huge warehouse of rifles, shoulder rockets and ammo in Mosul that just happened to have not one guard on duty that night - etc - let them slaughter 10’s of thousands of Christians and drive 100,000’s from their ancestral homes...
Nope - Bush’s fault.
Let me ask this: How many reporters embedded with the Nazis’/Gestapo in WW11 and came home and wrote the ‘news’ from their perspective?
We DID have a soldier meet with the V-Cong during that war - 3 times, while in Uniform... (which should have put him in jail for life - and, at the every least, Constitutionally rendered him ineligible EVER to hold an elected office - even dog-catcher.)...then can home and slandered our soldiers -
Instead, he’s now Sec of State
This German creep was allowed his access AND safety ONLY to carry water for the JV Team
This alone tells me he is in denial of reality. Thousands of Germans have been maimed and killed by muslims (= islamists - same, same) while just a handful of muslims have been killed by right wing extremists. PEGIDA are not extremists, they are regular folk who're fed up with the propaganda offered by politicians and the media.
Your translation is close, but off a bit. And he hardly used a nom de guerre as a member of parliament all those years...
Point taken; it's just a coincidence then. Thanks.
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