Come on, guys. Fire up those neurons. What should we do?
Close ISIS's checking account? Boots on the ground? Pray to the Christian God to smite Islam?
What?
You could try walking the walk and then talking the talk, for a change.
Have I been whining about the US response to ISIS?
Clearly the parroting rubes are unhappy with the current response, so they must have another plan, right? Right?
They clearly believe they know better than the Pentagon and the White House. So what's the big soooper sekrit they can't reveal? What is THEIR plan?
THE PLAN is first DO NO HARM!
But when you tell the enemy..."Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
YOU are justifying the barbaric actions of today! Those events happened 1,000s of years ago. Heads are being cut of TODAY by Muslims that's the first thing to acknowledge! It helps ONLY the enemy to be told we are just as BAD even though we haven't been for over 1,000s of years!
Obama is correct. We cannot judge an entire religion based on the actions of thugs who claim to be acting in the name of that religion. We don't condemn all of Christianity because of the KKK, nor should we condemn all of Islam because of ISIS.
I am sorry you are so simple-minded that that concept insults you.
Obama judged Christianity as causing the Crusades and Inquisitions and Jim Crow. He DID NOT say "extremist" Christians... he
said ALL christians!
"People committed terrible deeds" Didn't say "extremist people" said "People"..."Christians"!
So HE JUDGED the entire Christian religion based on actions of "extremists Christians"
NONE of us are doing that to Islam though! Almost EVERYONE recognizes it is the "extremists" muslims! Only idiots though
lump ALL CHRISTIANS to extremists 1,000s of years ago just as idiots lump ALL Muslims!
But it is a known proven scientific fact that when you poor gas on a fire it gets worse!
NOW here is a Harvard study that shows this same affect i.e. pouring gas or in this gas using words like these and here is the consequences that the Harvard study showed:
The Harvard Study asked:
THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!!
According to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
And these statements which idiots like YOU most likely agreed with did everything in the world to encourage recruit and reward the terrorists to continue.
Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Remember Kerry EARLIER SAID...
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an
oppressive regime .... to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
.... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
These comments inflamed the terrorists AND demoralized our troops at the same time!
And now we have Obama pouring more gas on the fire!