This is the same mind set as Hamas w/ respect to Gaza.
Create sympathy and support from the fight against the greater Satan; the cost of lives matters not. The local support and prestige is what matters to control the locals.
I haven't seen the video, but I follow the line you run here.
ISIS is intelligent enough to know the response to a beheading of an American. Result would not be for America to yeild. It would embroil many of us to drop the gdmn'd hammer on ISIS. So why do the video?
ISIS isn't a joke. Can they edit video? Fuck yes they can. While the bulk of their army is angry cavemen, ISIS management has proven they could run a fortune 500 company. They're educated, determined, and organized.
I haven't seen the video, but I follow the line you run here.
ISIS is intelligent enough to know the response to a beheading of an American. Result would not be for America to yeild. It would embroil many of us to drop the gdmn'd hammer on ISIS. So why do the video?
One of the most distubing thing to me is our media's absolute shock and awe and continual headliner of this story.
Obama's speech this afternoon will have them quaking in their boots. It's as much as over.
The guy doing the beheading has a British accent....Damn,what Europe has come to.
The guy doing the beheading has a British accent....Damn,what Europe has come to.
Obama's speech this afternoon will have them quaking in their boots. It's as much as over.
Yeah let's just invade without thinking with a media campaign behind the invasion without regard to the fact that perhaps a group twice as bad will come in....
We've seen that movie before....
Kurdish forces have had success so far with air support. Once IS artillery and armored vehicles are destroyed by air support perhaps the Kurdish will continue that success.
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I've actually been pleasantly surprised how effective air strikes have been but it makes sense. If they're trying to expand, it's going to expose their forces to attack. It's the opposite of holing up on your home territory. I wonder if they were as naive as the Taliban in thinking they could stand up in a direct military conflict.
Of course slowing them is one thing, removing them from Iraq is another thing and removing them from their prior territory possibly impossible. But as far as this limited support in stopping their advance with minimal US personal risk - good so far.
The administration now has a convenient excuse to continue offensive air strikes and buy time for the Kurds and Iraqi government to get their shit together.
That's an awfully casual attitude you have to the use of nuclear weapons.
1) Take a cue from David Cameron and cancel your vacation. Attempt to at least make us think you care enough about the nation to put it before yourself.Out of curiosity, your suggestions as to what he should be doing?
1) Take a cue from David Cameron and cancel your vacation. Attempt to at least make us think you care enough about the nation to put it before yourself.
2) When you address the nation and the world, put on a damned tie. Make yourself look presidential and it will help you to come across as presidential instead of some lounge singer.
3) Do not run off to the golf course immediately after your brief speech about an act of war committed against our nation. Try to at least pretend that this nation is more important than your golf game.
4) Take a stand. Try to appear that you have an anger seething in your veins against a group of religious fanatics that has essentially declared war against our nation and its people. Don’t give noncommittal speeches that say nothing and mean nothing just because some staffer feels you should just...say something. If you don't care, stay quiet.
5) If you will not put boots on the ground to fight this enemy, that’s fine but don’t tell them that that is the case. Don’t give our enemy deadlines for what we’re going to do whether it be bombing or pulling out of troops and never, never, tell them what you will not do. Make them believe that the U.S. is willing to go to whatever lengths are necessary in the fight against them.
6) Quit worrying about offending Muslims. Islamist fanatics have declared us to be their enemy. They have declared their intentions to include the control of our nation including flying their flag over the White House. They are Muslims and they are already offended. Stop kissing their asses.
7) Fire up the drones and whatever other airpower is available and bomb every last one of these stone age thinking motherfuckers back to the motherfucking stone age. Let them know the cost of publicly beheading our citizens. Defend our nation or resign.
8) Lastly, stop the concern for how the world perceives us. Being the most popular country in the world is the last thing our nation should be concerned with. This is not High School. We give huge amounts of aid to the nations of the world and we’ve been the bad guys forever and we may very well continue to be the bad guys. We’re not vying to be Prom Queen of the world. If X nation is unhappy with us, it’s their problem not ours.
My take the president needs to worry about his brand. He will be making money for many years to come as long as he does not offend any of his fanbase. Look at HClinton $200,000 plus per speech and what great accomplishments are on her resume??1) Take a cue from David Cameron and cancel your vacation. Attempt to at least make us think you care enough about the nation to put it before yourself.
1) Take a cue from David Cameron and cancel your vacation. Attempt to at least make us think you care enough about the nation to put it before yourself.
2) When you address the nation and the world, put on a damned tie. Make yourself look presidential and it will help you to come across as presidential instead of some lounge singer.
3) Do not run off to the golf course immediately after your brief speech about an act of war committed against our nation. Try to at least pretend that this nation is more important than your golf game.
4) Take a stand. Try to appear that you have an anger seething in your veins against a group of religious fanatics that has essentially declared war against our nation and its people. Dont give noncommittal speeches that say nothing and mean nothing just because some staffer feels you should just...say something. If you don't care, stay quiet.
5) If you will not put boots on the ground to fight this enemy, thats fine but dont tell them that that is the case. Dont give our enemy deadlines for what were going to do whether it be bombing or pulling out of troops and never, never, tell them what you will not do. Make them believe that the U.S. is willing to go to whatever lengths are necessary in the fight against them.
6) Quit worrying about offending Muslims. Islamist fanatics have declared us to be their enemy. They have declared their intentions to include the control of our nation including flying their flag over the White House. They are Muslims and they are already offended. Stop kissing their asses.
7) Fire up the drones and whatever other airpower is available and bomb every last one of these stone age thinking motherfuckers back to the motherfucking stone age. Let them know the cost of publicly beheading our citizens. Defend our nation or resign.
8) Lastly, stop the concern for how the world perceives us. Being the most popular country in the world is the last thing our nation should be concerned with. This is not High School. We give huge amounts of aid to the nations of the world and weve been the bad guys forever and we may very well continue to be the bad guys. Were not vying to be Prom Queen of the world. If X nation is unhappy with us, its their problem not ours.
Obama's speech this afternoon will have them quaking in their boots. It's as much as over.