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2015-02-05 Terror Networks

Jordanian King Personally Participating in Sorties Against ISIS

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Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-05 09:01|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Obama said he will sacrifice his golf glove and play barehanded this weekend.

Posted by Airandee 2015-02-05 10:51|| 2015-02-05 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Old School. And big brass balls. If I were Jordanian, I would be stand pretty damn tall due to my King this day. Think about the positive impact on the morale of the military...

Posted by Vinegar Clorong1286 2015-02-05 11:54|| 2015-02-05 11:54|| Front Page Top

#3 He is a true leader and will do what it takes, including putting himself in danger to protect his people.

Obama will just whine more and raise taxes on what he sees as his slaves.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-02-05 12:03|| 2015-02-05 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Champ will betray the King. Just like the old Randy Travis balad, 'It's just a matter of time.'

Posted by Besoeker 2015-02-05 13:23|| 2015-02-05 13:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Trivia time - last time a western King was on the field of battle (not as an observer visiting the troops)?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-02-05 13:35|| 2015-02-05 13:35|| Front Page Top

#6 My vote Procopius2k is George II, at the age of 60, was the last British sovereign to take such a role, at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 in Germany, against the French.

Posted by Bugs White6776 2015-02-05 13:48|| 2015-02-05 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd guess that the rules of engagement have been greatly loosened. Think Dresden or Tokyo in WW II.

Posted by Mr. Frank 2015-02-05 14:12|| 2015-02-05 14:12|| Front Page Top

#8 There were four sovereigns on the field of battle at Leipzig in 1814, Napoleon, Alexander I, Frederick William II, and Francis I.

Albert I personally led the Belgian Army during WWI, including supposedly from the front. Much propaganda was made of it, including the fact that his queen was a front-line nurse and his son and heir was a private in the trenches.

Posted by Mitch H. 2015-02-05 14:41|| 2015-02-05 14:41|| Front Page Top

#9 QE II drove for, I think, the RAF during WW II as a teenager. She remarked she's the only one of the royals who knows how to change a tire. Her sons and grandsons have been downrange here and there.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2015-02-05 15:33|| 2015-02-05 15:33|| Front Page Top

#10 All hail the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan!

Posted by Theting Glasing4448 2015-02-05 16:00|| 2015-02-05 16:00|| Front Page Top

#11 From HG0036's link:

Obama can’t even call ISIS what they are and King Abdullah is personally bombing them.

First Bibi, now Abdullah.

That may leave a mark.

Posted by gorb 2015-02-05 16:25|| 2015-02-05 16:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Impressive act of personal courage and commitment, reflecting a sense of honor and anger to the barbarous acts of savages. Champ equivocated and suggested Christians by example have been guilty of the same kinds of barbarous behavior, citing the Inquisition and the Crusades.
Apparently the march of time has no effects on his equivocational standards. Oh, and he had to bring in slavery and Jim Crow laws, to refocus some of the shame on his country. What an absolute POS!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-02-05 18:05|| 2015-02-05 18:05|| Front Page Top

#13 If one agrees with Victor Davis Hanson, Mr. Obama may be getting exactly what he wants foreign policy-wise.

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-05 18:08|| 2015-02-05 18:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Not according to the Royal Hashemite Court
http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=27897#.VNQC1T8agUg

Not that the story being untrue diminshes my respect for King Abdullah. Everything I've read so far suggest he is a very good leader and King

Posted by Chantry 2015-02-05 19:02|| 2015-02-05 19:02|| Front Page Top

#15 He needs to start channeling Vlad the Impaler on any ISIS, then we'll see. Short Vlad tutorial, King Abdullah, this ones for you... hit it boys.

Posted by Throsh Dark Lord of the Visigoths8964 2015-02-05 19:22|| 2015-02-05 19:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Maybe we have a two-fer! Have both Bibi and Abdullah address a joint session of congress. That will flatten O's tires on his bicycle.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-02-05 20:24|| 2015-02-05 20:24|| Front Page Top

#17 You'd have to flatten all three, AP.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-02-05 21:03|| 2015-02-05 21:03|| Front Page Top

#18 *oh snap*

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-05 21:17|| 2015-02-05 21:17|| Front Page Top

#19 It's good to be the king...

Posted by badanov 2015-02-05 22:06|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-02-05 22:06|| Front Page Top

#20 And it's Mullah R. for the win! :-D

Posted by Barbara 2015-02-05 22:12|| 2015-02-05 22:12|| Front Page Top

#21 IIRC Egypt's own Hosni Mubarak was Egyptian Air Force, a flyboy as was Cao Ky of the former Republic of South Vietnam.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-02-05 22:17|| 2015-02-05 22:17|| Front Page Top

#22 flatten all three

When Rantburgers, cold as an icicle,
Jeer Zero and leer at his bicycle,
They should grade on a curve
And affirm Preezy's nerve:
Full credit for trying a tricycle!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-02-05 23:07|| 2015-02-05 23:07|| Front Page Top

#23 :o)

Posted by badanov 2015-02-05 23:44|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-02-05 23:44|| Front Page Top

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