Netanyahu’s ISIS Moral Clarity

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks at a news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama in JerusalemConfronted with pure evil in the form of ISIS, President Barack Obama treats the jihadists as if they represented an isolated threat that can be dealt with on its own. ISIS (or ISIL as the U.S. government calls it, or the Islamic State as the jihadists now call themselves) has no relationship to Islam, according to the president and his Secretary of State John Kerry.

ISIS is “not Islamic,” Obama declared in his speech last week announcing the steps he intends to take to combat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. “And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.” It is “a terrorist organization, pure and simple,” Obama added.

In other words, according to the president, ISIS is for all intents and purposes made up of a bunch of nihilists who just engage in terrorism for terrorism’s sake. There is no purpose to what they are doing other than their pleasure in the deaths and mayhem they wreak, he would have us believe.

This fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy we are fighting will continue to result in Obama’s piecemeal muddle that passes for a “strategy.”  Are we even in a war? It depends on which member of the Obama administration is speaking and on what day. When are we going to start bombing ISIS in Syria as the president said he was prepared to do in his speech last week? Are we waiting to put together a “coalition” to bring the fight to ISIS on the ground while we send in some military advisors and otherwise limit ourselves to air strikes?  Apparently so, since the president has already made clear to the enemy what we will not do. And talking about coalitions, it seems that ISIS has had more success in that arena. All Obama and Kerry have managed to do so far is to cobble together vague pledges from some countries without specific commitments that we know of to contribute combat troops. ISIS, on the other hand, has reportedly recruited fighters from around seventy countries. These fighters are committed to ISIS’s fight for a caliphate. And the idea that we can find and train enough reliable so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels to “partner” with, who are motivated to take on the jihadists with “boots on the ground,” is a joke.

Indeed, ISIS and its other jihadist cohorts do have a vision, contrary to Obama’s confusion of terrorist tactics with their endgame of Islamic supremacy. Terrorist tactics, along with stealth jihad tactics of infiltration and manipulation of our institutions, serve to achieve this endgame. And while different jihadist groups may squabble among themselves over who represents the purest form of Islam, they are united by their hatred of the “infidels” – and the intent to covert, subjugate or kill as many of us as possible. Whatever name they go by, whether it is ISIS, Hamas, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabab, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad or the Islamic Republic of Iran that supports some of these groups and others, they all represent an indivisible threat to global peace, security and individual liberties. They are, in short, part of a common enemy driven by the same pathological supremacist ideology.

Unlike President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees the threat and its animating ideology without rose-colored glasses. Addressing a conference of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Prime Minister Netanyahu described the repugnant vision as one of global supremacism.

We’ve seen this before. There’s a master race; now there’s a master faith. And that allows you to do anything to anyone, but first of all to your own people and then to everyone else… The goal is we establish a new Islamist dominion, first in the Middle East and in their warped thinking, throughout the world. They all agree on that. They are not limited in their scope to a territory. They’re not limited to borders.

While Obama went through the motions in commemorating the anniversary of 9/11 and has displayed moral confusion, Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke eloquently with moral clarity about what is at stake for the civilized world:

I believe that the battle against these groups is indivisible and it’s important not to let any of these groups succeed anywhere because if they gain ground somewhere, they gain ground everywhere. And their setbacks are also felt everywhere. If they gain ground, if they were to succeed, they would return humanity to a primitive early medievalism … where women are treated as chattel, as property and gays are stoned and minorities persecuted if they’re left alive at all.

Prime Minister Netanyahu knows firsthand that a true leader cannot make excuses for jihadists who fancy themselves as custodians of the “master faith” of Islam, nor negotiate with them. It does not make any difference how they label themselves. They are all branches of “the same poisonous tree,” as the prime minister put it. “These groups have absolutely no moral or other impediment to their mad desires. Once they have massive power, they will unleash all their violence, all their ideological zeal, all their hatred, with weapons of mass death,” he added.

President Obama mistakenly believes that he can separate the branches of the poisonous tree and engage with some of them as if they were unrelated fruit trees. Thus, his fruitless outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood and to the Iranian regime.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is under no such illusion. With moral clarity, he understands the jihadist ideology of Islam supremacism that we are up against and what is at stake if we do not defeat it.  President Obama does not, which places us at risk of another even deadlier attack on our homeland.

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  • Paula Douglas

    I don’t think that Obama misunderstands anything about ISIS. He’s perfectly aware of their motives, their intentions, and their track record. Everyone is aware of those things, as ISIS has been quite open about them. The question is not, “How can he fail to understand what ISIS wants?” The question is, “What does he have to gain from evading and denying it?” The difference between Netanyahu and Obama, and the reason Netanyahu can openly identify ISIS for what it is, is that their fundamental views of Western values are at opposite poles. Netanyahu embraces those values; Obama rejects them. Obama has worked his entire life in the service of destroying and denigrating reason, individual rights, and capitalism. Why, when he’s confronted with a group that is so efficaciously doing that work for him, would he admit its true nature? That would require that, in his nominal capacity as leader of the free world, he fight it. Why would he? No, he wouldn’t pick up a knife and behead someone, or sign his daughters up for clitorectomies, but he knows an ideological comrade when he sees one. Besides, the stoning, the beheadings, the torture…to a modern leftist that’s just cultural diversity that can neither be criticized nor allowed to impede the prime directive: the destruction of reason, individual rights, and capitalism.

    • wildjew

      “…he knows an ideological comrade when he sees one.”

      Well done.

      • victoryman

        Muslims of a feather flock together?

    • Michael Garfinkel

      I agree, almost.

      I think you’re correct in that he sympathizes with their resentment – he says so when he mentions their “grievances,” but Obama recoils at their savagery.

      I think that Obama is deeply discomforted by their barbarism, and sees it as a setback to the “cause.”

      • wildjew

        You think Obama’s, like Muslim Brotherhood’s, tactics differ a little from that of mainstream Islamic groups like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic State, etc.? He has different tactics but shares ISIS’, Hamas’, al-Qaeda’s goals?

        • Michael Garfinkel

          Obama, as Krauthammer says, is a man of the Left.

          His goals are the goals of the Left, not of the Islamists.

          I think Obama has been sufficiently “mugged by reality” in that job to appreciate that the goals of the hard left are unobtainable, if not dangerous.

          This has been a great disappointment for him.

          That’s my guess; I could be wrong.

          • wildjew

            I disagree with Krauthammer. If Obama were a man of the left, I think this country would be fine. This country and the world would survive Obama without too much fundamental transformation.

          • victoryman

            Remember the interview with Stephanopolous prior to the POTUS election? They were talking about religion, and Obama stated, “I am a Muslim”…….immediately Stephanopolous jumped in to correct (And cover) for Obama , “You mean a Christian.” Obama immediately responded, “Yes. A Christian.” …….Looking back on my 80 blessed years on this planet, I have never stated, “I am A Buddhist,” I am a Druze,” Etc. To me, this was the most important statement Obama ever made – and probably the only truthful one. However, people quickly forget statements such as these……..

          • MLCBLOG

            It is really amazing what he gets away with.

          • James_IIa

            Michael, you’re right on track. This also explains why people are seeing him as passive and withdrawn. Everything he has touched has failed. (For those who think he wanted to fail, he is depressed because increasingly his supporters are seeing the many failures.)

        • victoryman

          Right on target.

    • rebaaron

      Bravo Paula. Right on the mark, and well said.

  • Texas Patriot

    Compared with President Obama’s current mindset, Netanyahu’s thinking is like a ray of sunshine through a fog bank.

    • victoryman

      Could we trade Obambi and his family, Hagel, Kerry, Dempsey, both Clintons…….and a high draft choice for Netanyahu?

  • Hank Rearden

    The problem with Obama is always “does he know what he’s doing or doesn’t he” and wondering which answer is worse.

    As Dinesh D’Souza has shown so insightfully, Obama is a Third Worlder, a neocolonialist in the sense that neocolonialism blames all the pathologies of the Third World on the First World. It follows that a Muslim uprising such as the Arab Spring is a force for good. It is the Third World throwing off the chains of the West, which effectively is the First World, and the white man, who built the West.

    This is the dream from his father, that the Third World will be Eden if the West butts out. If this manifestation of liberation, the Arab Spring, is an evil thing through and through, where does Obama go with that? He has wasted his life and been deceived by his heroes – his father, Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, etc.

    Obama is living in fantasyland and cannot see the enemy for what it is, because he hates his own side. His strategy with ISIS is to be “present.”

  • mollysdad

    “And if Iran has nuclear weapons, you will see a tremendous pivot in the world. No, not in the Middle East – in the world. You will see things you never imagined could be possible, horrors that you couldn’t even contemplate, come to fruition. The ultimate terror: A terrorist regime with the weapons of the greatest terror of them all. We must not let that happen.”

    Indeed, we must not let that happen, even if it means getting rid of islam in short order. We have a window of opportunity as long as we have nuclear weapons and the Islamists don’t.

    • DontMessWithAmerica

      Your comments should be repeated to all politicians of the free world five times per day.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      I think you’re a little overextended when you speak of “getting rid of Islam,” but your basic premise is sound.

      Which begs the question: why has Israel so dangerously delayed the military effort to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapons infrastructure?

      • mollysdad

        Probably because they are determined not to act except in dire necessity, seeing that the mission could succeed only if Israel used nuclear weapons.

        • victoryman

          Right on target…….and no pun intended.

  • Vinegar Hill

    Natanyahu’s words are those of a totally irresponsible leader of a state. He is sowing the seeds of terror, one that is perceived but not conclusive, so that he can claw back support from the Israeli public which went on a downward spiral after the brutalities of the IDF in Gaza.

    • wildjew

      Not to compare the two men, Winston Churchill told readers of the Strand in 1935, Germans constituted the “most industrious, tractable, fierce and martial race in the world.” Barabara Tuchman wrote in ‘The Guns of August’, “Suddenly the world became aware of the beast beneath the German skin.”

      For this and other cogent observations Churchill was widely considered a warmonger and a scaremonger in Britain throughout the nineteen thirties.

      • Vinegar Hill

        Your comparison does not hold. The time periods and circumstances, political, geographical and social are totally different.

    • Atikva

      “sowing the seeds of terror”.. that’s a good one.

      These “seeds of terror” were sowed (or rather sowed again) shortly after WWI, well before PM Netanyahu’s birth, and they gave their first fruits in 1972 at the Munich olympics, followed by Maalot, Tehran, Beirut, PanAm 103, 9/11, Madrid, London, Mumbai, Nairobi and hundred of other massacres. It seems that most of the XXth and XXIst centuries events have escaped you. You need to set your clock right.

      As to “not conclusive”, please wait until after one of your islamist friends’ rockets falls on your house, or until their hoodlums take advantage of your driving on the highway to hit you with 2 kg stones, then come back if you can and tell us about such inconclusive incidents.

      Also do us a favor concerning the “brutalities of the IDF in Gaza”: provide us with the number of Israelis wounded during operation Protective Edge and treated in Gaza hospitals to be compared with the numbers of wounded Arabs treated in Israeli hospitals. Also go ahead, post your videos showing IDF soldiers sheltering behind children and civilians during combat, we need to be educated on these facts.

      And FYI, at that time only the islamo-socialist media showed their systematic anti-Israel bias with their usual lies. Which didn’t have much impact in most of the Western world. In the USA, about 72% of the population supports Israel.

      • Vinegar Hill

        See my reply above to “nomore…..” You too have been duped but don’t worry you are not alone.
        So treatment of “wounded Arabs …in Israeli hospitals” justifies slaughter of innocent babies , children, women and so on. What a delightful way of thinking!!
        The tide is turning Atikva.

        • Atikva

          Yes, but not in your favor, Full of p.. and vinegar.

          As to being a dupe, that’s the one thing you ought to know as one severely afflicted of the disease, but about averything else, you are walking along your boots.

          When you have proven your assertion about the “slaughter of innocent babies, children, women and so on..” by the IDF, I will explain to you the difference of ethics between civilized armed forces like those of Israel and the savagery of muslim terrorists.

          • Vinegar Hill

            Come on A you know that the IDF have a policy of attacking civilian quarters. It was carried out in Lebanon and wrought barbaric destruction. Why try and hide behind the “ethics (of) civilized armed forces like those of Israel”?

          • Atikva

            To dare utter such nonsense, you must be seriously impaired. Go find help, I don’t have time to loose with bozos.

          • Vinegar Hill

            Atikva you know as well as I do that what I wrote is correct. Perhaps you have forgotten that the author of the IDF’s code of conduct is Asa Kasher who incorporated the Dahiya doctrine into his rules of battle. This is one of the reasons why we read about claims by Israeli spokespersons that Israel’s military is “the most moral army in the world”.
            Kasher argues from his social contract theory that the state has an imperative duty to protect its citizens, including soldiers in battle, and that this extends to killing the neighbours of enemy combatants.

          • Atikva

            Dismissed.

          • SCREW SOCIALISM

            You know that Islamofascists used civilian areas to launch rockets.

            The ethics of Islamofascism are to kill innocents, and cry “islamophobia” when they are attacked in return.

      • nobullhere

        The seeds of terror were sowed in 623 AD.

    • iluvisrael

      You’re back – and still a Jew hating a$$hole.

    • nomoretraitors

      He knows more about the threat than you and I ever will. He lives with it every day

      • nobullhere

        Vinegar Troll won’t be satisfied until Israel ceases to exist. He’s s typical Islamic barbarian.

        • Vinegar Hill

          Address the issue!

          • nobullhere

            The issue has just been addressed, brickbrain.

      • Vinegar Hill

        I realise that you are being duped and that you probably know it as well, however, it is not the first time that an Israeli government has followed this line to fool its citizens. An example could be the possibility that Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon.
        Peres said in 1992 that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999! (15 years ago) Ehud Barak said in 1996 that Iran would have a nuke by 2004! (10 years ago) and now Netanyahu is raving on about IS!!!

        • nobullhere

          And you’re so disappointed that Iran didn’t get the bomb in 1999 and use it against Israel as it is an integral part of your Holocaust fantasies.

          • Vinegar Hill

            You have missed the point. It’s not about Iran getting “the bomb” it’s about Natanyahu using this possibility for political gain. I am not a fan of holocausts!

          • nobullhere

            That nose of yours must have grown at least a couple of metres since that posting, eh piNAZIcchio.

          • SCREW SOCIALISM

            The weekly Nuremberg rallies, calling for death to America and Israel, SORRY, Zionist entity, in Fascist Iran prove you WRONG.

            DEATH to Fascist Iran!
            HANG the ayatollahs!
            HANG their revolutionary gestapo!

            LONG LIVE PERSIA!

    • Giborei1967

      More zero-credibility words from a proven anti-Semite. Just ignore him/her. It’s the enemy!

  • MattBracken

    Obama and Kerry just need to fly to Raqqa, Syria, and inform Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that despite his PhD in Islamic Studies, he is wrong to call the Islamic State Islamic. I’m sure they can straighten him out in no time.

  • wildjew

    Mr. Klein, you wrote: ‘This fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy we are fighting will continue to result in Obama’s piecemeal muddle that passes for a “strategy.” ‘

    I think we can agree, this fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy became egregiously apparent soon after the 9/11/2001 attacks in New York and Washington when we were told, ‘the “terrorists” practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics — a fringe movement that ***perverts*** the peaceful teachings of Islam’.

    A conservative writer observed later: “It is a mark of his high intelligence that (Mitt) Romney has gone beyond the conventional conservative view, that jihad is a ***perverted*** form of Islam, to the more profound insight that jihad has absolutely nothing to do with Islam.”

    I do not expect the left will honestly define the enemy. I do expect my side (conservatives) to define the enemy. Until my / our side gets it right, why shouldn’t we expect that Obama and others of his ilk will explain the true meaning of Islam to us?

    • Conniption Fitz

      Bush outright lied to our citizens about @#$%^&*! Islam. Islam is no religion of peace…it is a supremacist ideology and peace is not in its history unless forced into it.

      • Virgil Hilts

        Still hung up on Bush? Are we to infer that, by omission…you excuse the current crop of liars….including the one who contaminates the Oval Office? If so…that train left the station long ago.

        • nomoretraitors

          In all fairness, Bush did make that statement, so ignorance is not confined to one side of the aisle. The difference with Obama is he actively undermining our security by removing all reference to violent jihad in government training manuals and appointing Muslim sympathizers to key positions in the federal security apparatus

          • Virgil Hilts

            Thanks for the memory refresher…I guess politicians are regularly engaged in ‘enhancing’ or minimizing the facts. There have been so few honest men in the post…who didn’t play the CYA game.

        • Conniption Fitz

          “Are we to infer that, by omission…you excuse the current crop of liars….including the one who contaminates the Oval Office?”
          H3LL no. However, Bush lied, allowed infiltration of FBI, CIA with Islamists. Obama is the fruit of that lie and infiltration.

    • Richard Fontaine

      Let’s remember one primary thing. There is a lot of very low cost oil in the Middle East and that is the primary reason we have been involved there for the last seventy five years. It is a little hard to condemn the religion of all those nations populations and still expect them to serve your interests in an orderly price of our world energy. The rest of the flopping back and forth is simply the PR cover stories for what is going on. The Saudis fund Wahhabism to undercut the very civilizations that buy its oil. They can’t live without our military umbrella but we can’t live without their oil. Now that fracking has changed the parameters of the game, the oil producing countries of the Middle East are acting more rapidly to try and preempt the lessening of the future Caliphate’s oil leverage. Much like Japan decided to attack Pearl Harbor to try and preempt the US embargo of oil to Japan, the Caliphate sees the window of opportunity of world control through control of a large portion of world energy production closing as fracking brings energy independence to the United States and others by 2020. Beware of their actions and ask yourself who is supporting this lover of Islam to be our Commander in Chief?

      • wildjew

        What you say about oil and our dependency on it is ‘why’ George W. Bush should have made energy independence central to his foreign policy / national security goals following the 9/11/2001 attacks but he didn’t I believe in large measure because he and his father are deeply compromised due to decades of lucrative financial dealings with our Saudi Wahhabi enemies. Perhaps you caught all the hand-holding and kissing with then Crown Prince Abdullah in Crawford, Texas. Perhaps you are familiar with Harken Energy (who bought the struggling company), Carlyle Group, etc.

        Did I say American leaders should “condemn the religion of all those nation’s populations”? Condemning is one thing. Lying about those religion of those nation’s populations is quite another.

  • Gee

    I just wish Netanyahu acted with as much moral clarity as he does talking about it. He would make a fine Foreign Minister – but as the Prime Minister he has all the backbone of a jellyfish

    • El Cid

      Not evident. BiBi needs to deal with Hussein Obama. Remember the delay getting armaments during the recent conflict in Gaza? Hussein holds power which he is willing to use against our friends to help his friends in the Muslim Brotherhood. Bibi is PM of a small country.

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    This is a very rational analysis with one exception; a major
    exception. The dream of a global caliphate is dreamed by various
    factions. And one of these is Obama himself. How can the world have
    missed this to date? He thought he could accomplish this through the
    Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi. He thought he could topple Assad as he
    toppled Mubarak hopping on the Arab Spring bandwagon as did all Islamist
    opportunists. But some of them have their own ideas and this throws a
    wrench into the cogs of his plans. It’s a big trick to play the role of the
    president of the most powerful country in the world while plotting to turn the
    world into one big fat Islamic caliphate. To those of us who refuse to
    wear blinders this is very clear. To those of you who refuse to believe
    what you see and hear it is less so.
    This, sadly, might even include Netanyahu.

    • Sara

      Amen.

    • MLCBLOG

      Couldn’t have said it better.

  • Canadianpatriot

    Obama’s intellect is an enormous heavy train hurtling down a track with his socialist/progressive/Marxist/environmentalist pals all aboard. Because of his load, the manner in which his intellect was structured for one purpose, and because his false and destructive values sit at the core of his identity, built on false assumptions when he was young, even if he sensed that something is wrong, that the train has no brakes, and is headed on tracks built to a cliff edge, he could not, would not change. To change, to jump off and admit that he is mistaken would destroy him, explode his mind. The train thunders on, facts be damned, on a thrilling ride to destruction.

  • Virgil Hilts

    From The Article: “This fundamental misunderstanding…”

  • Christopher Riddle

    “BiBi”Is THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.clarespark.com/ Clare Spark

    Obama doesn’t have to be a closet jihadist to fulfill his foreign policy. He can just be a Wilsonian internationalist and/or capitalizing on the remnants of the Vietnam Syndrome, thus appealing to the young who do not want to be killed or maimed for life. Youth is an important part of his base.

  • El Cid

    Brilliant use of phrases by Bibi–true world leadership. Let us help this cause by adopting these words in conversation and in writing, specifically “there was a master race, now there is a master faith”. Any simpleton can get it! Imagine if we had a POTUS who repeated these words. Let’s find him.

  • Elisheva

    Even Israel under Natanyahu has made mistakes. He should have never released Prisoners with blood on their hands for murdering Jews just to bring Abbas to negotiate a peace agreement . He is certainly better than Obama. Israel entered into Peace agreements with Terrorists and things have gone downhill.

    • wildjew

      I have been trying to encourage conservative Christian activists to lobby our Republican National platform writing committee (and party leaders) in 2016 to remove insidious language calling for the establishment of a Palestinian Muslim-enemy state in Israel. Invariably I get the explanation for not taking a position based on the rationale that Israel’s prime minister or better Israel’s government has largely embraced the 2 state solution. Indeed PM Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s pressure by announcing his support for a demilitarized Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria, etc., at Bar-Ilan University, June 2009. At the August 2012 Republican party convention in Tampa, Mitt Romney’s surrogate, Senator Jim Talent invoked Netanyahu’s support for a Palestinian state in order to crush a conservative revolt against the GOP’s formal position in support of “Palestine” since 2004.

  • David Farrar

    Look, Obama, himself, is either an outright Sunni Muslim, or has long-held and deeply ingrained sympathies for Sunni Wahhabism. Whether consciously or unconsciously, it will be hard for him to commit to destroy his fellow Sunnis Muslims, just as it was for the Sunnis in the Iraqi army.

    ex animo
    davidfarrar

    • William

      Actually, Sunni Muslims are the targets in his wars. Al qaeda., ISIS etc.

      • I. B.

        Not true, he is just giving a correction now and then to his “mad dogs”. This is totaly consistent with the US politics, the US used Taliban again the USSR, then fought a war against them…Not a single western government is fighting Salafism or Wahabism, on the contrary, these doctrines are encouraged and protected. If you want to check what I am saying, go to any Muslim library, and check what kind of books you will find there. Terrorism does not grow alone, it is fueled by propaganda, books, Internet websites…etc. You destroy Taliban….El Qaida replaces it, You distroy Al Qaida…ISIS is there….You destroy ISIS….Something new will come up. Taliban, El Qaida and ISIS are symptoms of the same sickness. If we want to heal this sickness, we need to destroy its vectors.

        • William

          Looks like Obama is doing that, since he is targeting Sunni Islamists. They are the real force behind Islamic terrorism.

          • David Farrar

            Only reluctantly, and only when the political forces were rising up and demanding he actually do something. Air power isn’t going to win the confrontation, all sides know this. Let me know when Saudi Arabia and Turkey actually send ground troops into Iraq to kill their fellow Sunni Wahhabis, and you may have a point.

            ex animo
            davidfarrar

          • William

            You honesty believe that Obama’s reluctant in fighting terrorists? In reality, he makes GW Bush look reluctant in his war policies. Bush had pretty much given up on finding Osama bin Laden by the time he left office. Obama has greatly expanded the war on terror.

          • Sara

            Actually, he has so completely abandoned the war on terror that he renamed it.

          • William

            Uh, no.. He expanded and escalated the war on terror. Now he’s sent troops back into Iraq and is threatening to attack Syria next.

            It must be strange living in opposite-world.

          • Sara

            Enjoy the stuff you’re smoking. Make sure to save a nice stash for when the shat hits the fan.

          • I. B.

            His administration ordered that all the training material for the CIA be washed from the word “Islam” how do you call this? Barak Husein also opened the door to the likes of Mohammed Elbiary as “Security Advisors” I think it need a great deal of dishonesty not to see what is going on.

          • 1Indioviejo1

            Hezbollah and Iran. You forget yourself.

      • 1Indioviejo1

        Obama at war? You must be joking. The ‘man’ is a traitor out to erode American power and influence in the world. He is out to destroy us. That is what “fundamentally transform” means to his gang.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      I think actually he’s a neo-Marxist cultural Muslim. That makes him even more dangerous because it’s so easy for so many factions of “victims” to use the one that is supposed to be sitting in the most powerful office in the world.

      I think that he sees himself as unique to the point of being a kind of messiah / healer that understands the world better than anyone else because of being shuttled back and forth between Indonesia and Hawaii (it’s easy for a Marxist to see what he wants to see by comparing and contrasting Hawaii with Indonesia) and “Christendom” with “multicultural Islam” in Indonesia. He also spent some time in African hearing from other “victims of colonialism.”

      These are all interesting experiences that could lead a bright person to have useful opinions as part of an ongoing discourse, but as a neo-Marxist drone, he’s easy to use by others that already have clearer plans.

      Anyway, what he believes is that all of these violent actors are using their own unique cultural frames to solve material problems. Once they gain power and start to solve problems they’ll naturally become more moderate. Even AQ would be given a pass if only there was someone else to use as bogey man. AQ is perfect for that role because you can kill a few guys and claim they’re on the run because they don’t claim any specific base of operations nor to they throw parades to blatantly contradict any assessments.

      So even if this guy in the White House is “sincere” about “looking after America” according to his “promise” (oath), he’s every bit as dangerous as the worst actors that he enables. It would almost be better if he was a Sunni radical because then he wouldn’t be so stupid in dealing with Russia, Iran and China. As it is, ALL of our enemies get to use this fool in the WH.

  • 2wotvet

    If Obama is so inept, than why doesn’t Netanyahu send the Israeli military to deal with ISIS? It’s not like it could put Israel in any more danger than it is now, since Islam hates Jews regardless.

    • wildjew

      My guess is this prime minister is not going to engage jihadists unless they directly threaten the Jewish state.

    • William

      Netanyahu has Obama at his back. The USA will defend Israel, and that is why Obama calls them ISIL and not ISIS.

      • Fritz Kohlhaas

        A knife in the back!!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      Netanyahu does not have vested interests in this either way…the USA does, as Russia is another enemy in the same situation.

    • Cool_Arrow

      Those Patriot missile batteries come with strings.

  • punditwannabe

    What I find interesting is that the Leftists (like O) and the Islamists both want the same thing: top down (to say the least) governance, and the Left thinks once it’s all said and done and the Islamists have taken their territory then the Left can just come in and take it for their New World Order? I think not, Lefties are at hearts cowardly (remember “Better Dead than Red”)?

  • William

    Let’s face it, Obama is using Israel as one of his excuses for war. He calls ISIS ‘ISIL’, in order to define this as a regional war in defense of Israel.

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  • 1Indioviejo1

    Islam is the root cause, not Wahabism, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and all the other terrorist under Islam. The Demonrats are feeding the beast hoping they will be last.

  • Richard Martin

    “In other words, according to the president, ISIS is for all intents and purposes made up of a bunch of nihilists who just engage in terrorism for terrorism’s sake.”

    I would love to join you in this but can’t. I think what Obama would say is that ISIS ‘think’ they are acting according to Islam, but they are not. They are not nihilists but confused and misguided. This is what Obama means. Whether he really believes it is a different matter. How could any thinking person?

  • William

    You don’t need to have served in the military to understand how the war on terror was greatly escalated under Obama. We’re at war in Iraq again, in case you hadn’t noticed.

  • Vinegar Hill

    If only the problems of the world were so easy to define! We, living in the west, we, who are non Muslim are right and those who fall outside of this categery are wrong, is to say the least, too simple.

    • Donna Wolf

      PisHill…Drakken is correct, you’re on the short end of the stick now, so if you happen to be thus compromised when ( not if–but when) things finally burst forth with a vengeance, you’ll find yourself a target to be lined up along a wall somewhere–without the offer of a last smoke or a last meal, to help assuage anxiety as you’re sent off into eternity.

      Good luck.

  • Atikva

    ” Islam serves his purpose by challenging Christian Judaism values that humbles his sense of racial identity.” If Mr. Obama really feels that way, he missed the point by a mile. The Judeo-Christian civilization has been disregarding racial identity or birth status for several decades. In turn, islam enduring racial, religious and sexist prejudices are stronger than ever with the reawakening of jihad.

    As his muslim “brothers” see it, Mr. Obama may be “the American President”, but he is first and foremost the illegitimate son of an Black man and a kafir White floozy. There is no way they could ever respect him, let alone accept him as one of their leaders. Even if he could give them a western caliphate on a platter, they would still despise him – period.

  • Matthew Johnston

    If the US inadvertently destroy Jordan, by getting them to fight ISIS. I am going to kick all the Palestinians into the East Bank and hermetically seal the border, deported from Gaza too.

  • KlugerRD

    If you are going to say there is moderate Islam then you have to show it -identify it – give a specific example. Because nowhere in the Middle East does that exist. Nowhere in Asia does it exist. Nowhere in Europe does it exist. And in the U.S. I have yet to see it.

    Obama is a shameless coward and his denigrates the character of the United States with every one of his feckless pronouncements.

    We got 9/11 because of another President who was too much of a coward to confront a war that was declared on us by Islam. Obama is doubling down on it and has placed the country in grave danger.

  • desertgoldwing

    I believe Obama is clear about his intent toward ISIS. He is going to arm them through the free syrian army proxies (and shame on you McCain!) and allow them to overthrow, at last, Assad. ISIS and the emerging caliphate are exactly what Obama wants. He is a half-way out of the closet Muslim, in my opinion. His hands are stained with the blood of innocents in all of this horror and in it he intends to make the rest of us co-conspirators. Slaughtered Christians who would not bow to the sharia cry out from their mass graves. Countless “moderate” muslim brethren who wanted to walk freely in the light of day are now silenced like so many millions before them under the Nazi’s, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Stalin, Che. etc. etc. ISIS is evil PERIOD! We must remove them like the cancer they are.
    God will not hold him guiltless who stands idly by the blood of his neighbor.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Netanyahu and ISIS both want Americans to fight ISIS. Why do you suppose that is?

    • desertgoldwing

      what are you implying? We should fight them regardless of who wants us to and kill them all.

  • http://goo.gl/68JXCD IGC

    Informative article! Here’s another good article that I came across on the history of ISIS. http://goo.gl/a0vpa4

  • MLCBLOG

    Seriously? we are buying that O is CONFUSED?? It’s as if he is working acc. to a plan. For example, three!! out of the 5 bad guys released from Gitmo are now big wigs in ISIS.