"He notes, âThe Egyptians are looking at this in disbelief. The Jordanians are looking at this in disbelief. The Saudis are looking at this in disbelief. Our ally in Yemen doesnât even exist anymore, gone. Our ally in Iraq doesnât even exist anymore, gone. John Kerry, behind the scenes, in secret is negotiating with the Islamo-Nazi regime in Tehran and they are openly bragging that they are getting 80 percent of what they want, theyâre going to keep thousands and thousands of centrifuges and Obama is begging them for a deal.â
#5
IF Bibi says one word about Iran in his speech, it will never see the light of day in the MSM.
They will report he spoke but they will never transcribe what he said.
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I certainly hope Bibi has his people videotape his speech to Congress, transcribe it, and make it immediately available over the internet, so the rest of us can refer to it and bypass the MSM distortions.
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" I certainly hope Bibi has his people videotape his speech to Congress, transcribe it, and make it immediately available over the internet, so the rest of us can refer to it and bypass the MSM distortions."
#8
Would John Boehner (pronounced Baner not Boner) consider inviting Mark Levin to speak before Congress on Constitutional law and other issues on his mind?
The problem is that we have no leaders in Washington. They fiddle, concerned with keeping their power, oblivious to the real threats, afraid of challenging. In times past, military leaders could be counted on to stand up, sound the alarm. But Obama, who hates the military, has purged the warriors. Good men, like the Pentagon spokesmen, have been walked back, step by step, until now they justify weakness and mouth a ridiculous policy of not identifying Islam as the enemy because it might bring prejudice against Muslims. Great tradeoff â decapitations, torture, murder of children, slaughter of innocents for possible hurt feelings. How insane these leftist Obama policies have become.
#5
"We have in Washington are the same type of men that Rome had in 400AD." And then the salarium for the Legions stopped coming over the Alps, and that was the end of the Roman Empire in the West.
[AnNahar] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group has learned from the mistakes of past jihadist movements and established a near-impregnable base of support within Iraq and Syria with spectacular appeal to many of the world's Sunni Moslems, a new book has warned.
The authors of "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror", published this month in the U.S., spoke to dozens of fighters and members of the group to understand its allure and how it justifies its brutal tactics.
In a telephone interview with AFP, one of the authors, Syrian-born journalist Hassan Hassan, said it was vital to understand that some of the group's core religious beliefs were widely shared.
"It presents itself as an apocalyptic movement, talking about the end of days, the return of the caliphate and its eventual domination of the world," said Hassan, who lives in Abu Dhabi where he works as a researcher for a think tank.
"These beliefs are not on the margins -- they are absolutely mainstream. They are preached by mosques across the world, particularly in the Middle East.
"ISIS takes these existing beliefs and makes them more appealing by offering a project that is happening right now," he said, using an alternative name for IS.
Hassan's research along with co-author Michael Weiss -- a U.S.-based journalist -- gave them a rare insight into IS training camps for new recruits, which vary in length from two weeks to one year.
"Recruits receive military, political and religious training. They are also trained in counter-intelligence to avoid being infiltrated," said Hassan.
"After they graduate, recruits remain under scrutiny and can be expelled or punished if they show reservations, or sent back to the camps to 'strengthen their faith'."
IS uses certain texts and in-house holy mans to provide religious justification for their violence, particularly a book called "The Management of Savagery", which argues that brutality is a useful tool for goading the West into an over-reaction.
The authors outline six categories of IS recruit.
Only two are rooted in religion: the ultra-holy warriors who dominate the group's upper echelons, and recent converts to its Lion of Islam ideology.
Others are merely opportunists seeking money or power; pragmatists who want stability and see IS as the only game in town; and imported muscle whose motives vary widely but "are almost always fed by serious misapprehensions of what is taking place in Iraq and Syria".
The final and most important category of recruit is often under-appreciated by the West -- those drawn by the group's political ideology.
Many Sunni Moslems in the region feel threatened by Shias led by a resurgent Iran.
"Across the region, Shias are confident, bold and on the rise, while Sunnis feel insecure and persecuted," said Hassan.
"Many disagree with ISIS on ethical grounds but they see them as the only group capable of protecting them."
The authors also emphasize that IS is not new, but rather emerged from the ashes of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), one of the most brutal foes of the Americans following their 2003 invasion.
AQI was largely defeated after the U.S. convinced local tribes to rise up against them -- a strategy known as "The Awakening", which has deeply influenced IS strategy.
"From the beginning, they've been obsessed with the Awakening," said Hassan.
"They've done everything to prevent it happening again: built sleeper cells, bought loyalty, divided communities.
"They've succeeded in making internal resistance practically impossible. No tribe will fight them, because they will find themselves fighting their own brothers and cousins."
The authors also depict IS as the Dire Revenge of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime more than a decade after the late Iraqi dictator was thrown out of power.
Most of the top IS decision-makers served either in Saddam's military or security services, the book says.
Although the Baathists were originally a secular movement, Saddam introduced a "Faith campaign" in the 1990s that sought to Islamise society.
"Very few people have focused on the impact of that campaign," said Hassan.
"It radicalised many Baathists and they combined the violence of the regime with that of jihadism, making them even worse than al-Qaeda."
Indeed, the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... famously fell out with AQI leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi over his horrific brutality and sectarian attacks on Shia Moslems.
Zarqawi, who was killed by a US missile strike in 2006, was so fanatical that he made bin Laden look like a moderate, and it is his mantle that has been picked up by IS.
Hassan remains pessimistic about Western counter-insurgency efforts.
"I keep hearing this argument that you can fight ISIS with propaganda, that this is an information war.
"But they have combined religion, geopolitics, economics and much more in their ideology. It's not a fragile ideology -- it has mass appeal."
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#1
I think ISIS was a dog bred and trained to attack Syria and has slipped its leash.
#5
"presents itself as an apocalyptic movement, talking about the end of days"
A 500 kilo cluster bomb (i.e. snake eyes) will pretty much do that for you.
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Follow that cluster bomb by saturation bombing with napalm, and the IS fanatics may re-consider the wisdom of their allegiance.
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ISIS is not a movement that builds. They are destroyers. At some point the piss will run out of their movement. With the right leader in the West (not some Muslim running cover for them), this might be facilitated more quickly.
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