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Well, today we hear reports that ISIS has burned alive the captured Jordanian Pilot. Last week another beheading of the Japanese journalist. I say enough is enough. It is high time to destroy everyone of this dangerous treacherous stinking cancer! I cannot believe that our intelligence is so bad that we have no idea where these people (sorry animals) are. Surely our intelligence shows where many of these festering cancerous scumbags are. It is time to destroy them. It is wrong to stand idly by and allow them to continue.
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I do not understand the reasons for these killings! Nor do I understand why no one seems to be serious in stopping them. With the manpower, fighting power the U. S. & its allies have why has no one eliminated ISIS by now? Or are a few killings insuffucient to act?
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Publicizing your atrocities never works out in the end for any one person or organization.
ISIS is writing it's own death warrant with each unjustified murder it carries out.
That said, for everyone who says we need to deal with this, they must remember that means an additional loss of U.S. servicemembers, it means in an age of cries for tax cuts, we'd be adding to the debt to pay for the destruction of ISIS, and when it's all said and done, there may just be some other group in line, waiting to take their place.
There is no easy answer for all of this and I'm glad I don't have to come up with the decisions on what to do.
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This is one of the most outrageous atrocities that I have seen.
There is no way to reach a peaceful accomodation with such an entity.
But destroying ISIS will take troops on the ground.
Until this country commits to that dirty job, they will go on.
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TheLagerLad wrote:
Publicizing your atrocities never works out in the end for any one person or organization.
ISIS is writing it's own death warrant with each unjustified murder it carries out.
That said, for everyone who says we need to deal with this, they must remember that means an additional loss of U.S. servicemembers, it means in an age of cries for tax cuts, we'd be adding to the debt to pay for the destruction of ISIS, and when it's all said and done, there may just be some other group in line, waiting to take their place.
There is no easy answer for all of this and I'm glad I don't have to come up with the decisions on what to do.
I agree with all your insight, however, if left unchecked there is coming a day of reckoning when it may be too late for any of us!
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A couple of things to keep in mind:
1) ISIS is bent on Middle East domination. They would really like to recreate the height of the Salucid empire.
2) All Middle Eastern cultures are honor-warrior cultures. Weakness (even just the appearance of weakness) is despised.
3) The Jordanian King has long been perceived as weak.
Connecting these dots....this execution is a calculated move to bring down the King from external attack or "internal" revolt.....obviously any revolt would have assistance from ISIS operatives.
This has to be creating massive anxiety in Israel.
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The King will not be perceived as weak
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JimmyBear...I feel your outrage over all of the senseless killing. And I too want to do Something. But the answer to this problem needs to come from those living in the Middle East. The Middle Eastern/Muslim people as a whole must denounce the actions of Radical Islam and force an affirmation of their religion as a peaceful one.
The US Army, it has been said is only good at blowing things up and breaking things (something like that...and they excel at what they do...Hooah?)
I think that more US boots on the ground (again) would only serve to deepen the pool of new recruits for ISIS.
Action by Muslim countries in opposition to the horrendous actions by extremist groups is the key to rallying the vast majority of Islamic people to break the back of these violent fringe groups.
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For starters, why don't we knock out their satalites, disconnect them from the internet, stop them from recruiting and planning their horrors. Take out their power plants and infrastructure. We have to know where their strongholds are or else we have the worse intelligence in the world.
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florentine wrote:
For starters, why don't we knock out their satalites, disconnect them from the internet, stop them from recruiting and planning their horrors. Take out their power plants and infrastructure. We have to know where their strongholds are or else we have the worse intelligence in the world.
I agree with you Florentine!