The author makes a weak case. A better case from the evidence presented would be that Jordan’s king is a mercenary who sells anything to the highest bidder and deals with smugglers for profit. That sounds like just about every member of the Arab elite I have ever met.
I know why. Muzzi went Jihad.
These incidents underscore the fundamental reality. Islamic culture is simply not compatible with the values practices and institutions of the West. Western culture, like it or not , constitutes modernity. It has established the standards and mode of living that most of the worlds people covet or wish to emulate. This conflict in cultural realities is the real reason for the violence, instability and massive migrations toward the lands formerly known as Christendom. The barbaric Saudi financed, Wahhabi motivated jihadists are bewildered reactionaries who seek solace, status and power embracing the customs and even dress of the 10th century. They are opposed locally by those who consciously and practically seek to embrace a Western living standard. Hence the barbaric wars and the migrations.
Hopefully the West will come to understand the underlying reasons for the Islamic disruption. Frankly it must disengage from the region and allow the people to achieve their own consensus. American involvement has been ineffectual and has not enhanced the security of the region or the American people. Instead it has squandered a fortune in priceless human and material resources. Picking a side in these local fights has not only been futile but has created bitter, long term , needless enemies. Politically incorrect to state but disengagement and securing borders while the caldron cools and transforms is appropriate policy. Most would call it “neo isolationism” ( Oh no!) but the enlightened would recognize rationality.
It was a simple sacrificial gift to the kind and peace loving Jordanian people and their King, showing that we, as Americans, fully respect their borders and national sovereignty.
SandMonkey treachery is endless.
American soldiers in a country trading belligerents, cannot be “murdered.”
They were killed in an act of war. They are legitimated targets.
I am sympathetic to this family. But words have meanings. War is war. People get killed in wars. We need to start speaking in plain language.
They died because they were infidels. Everything else is BS.
Because soebarkah put them there to be murdered.
Three dead Americans in Jordan. Three more reasons for the US to pull out of the Middle East and let the warring nations, tribes, sects, and factions kill each other off as they have been doing since and before Islam appeared in the 7th century. We can and should be energy independent from the Middle East. Let Europeans, Chinese, and Indians work on the dream of peace in the region for a while.
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The soldiers were killed because our stupid government is taking sides over which team of Islam should win where ... for the moment. Thousand year old civil war between Islam Team A and Islam Team B (plus probably hundreds of sub-sects of each).