Firstly, kudos for a mostly reasonable post.
1) So it has to be the clergy? Why?
No organization can be said to support a position on an issue merely because some wack job member talks shit.
To claim that an entire religion's behavior can be typified as calling for the Christian version of jihad you need to do better than to quote some random Westwood Baptist culti.
Okay, you want examples of Christian clergy who encouraged killing. Fine.
No, I want examples of Christian clergy LEADERSHIP calling for the MASS SLAUGHTER of nonChristians as is done by Muslim clergy within ISIS and AQ.
In fact the KKK with its support in the US, which includes members of the clergy.
No, not what I asked for.
"This study would attempt to explore the component communities which today constitute the American political core culture, focusing particularly on the Catholic cohort and its clergy. The resurgence of religious political community identification appears to have some resonance in the US, particularly among evangelical protestant groups. Representatives of these latter groups have taken the lead in mobilizing support for US intervention in the Middle East in alliance with significant segments of the American Jewish community, specifically in support of Israel. This study would aim to explore the American Catholic position on this issue in relation to a supposed “clash of civilizations” following the end of the Cold War."
This is not a call for mass slaughter, unless you think listening to an hours long clerical discussion of a topic in nuanced painful degree to be....OK, maybe you have an equivalent point here.
Did no clergy support the US invasion of Iraq? I mean, that was encouraging people to go fight non-Christian, right?
Most Evangelical Leaders Still Support Iraq War
"Most Evangelical Leaders Still Support Iraq War"
So there's a huge difference when many of the clergy in the US support the invasion of Iraq, support the vilifying of Muslims, the killing of Muslims through inept (or possibly deliberate) policies on behalf of Bush?
Again, support for a secular state's military intervention based on the public's awareness of the threat and its lethality, even if based to a great degree on lies, is not the equivalent of calling for MASS SLAUGHTER.
2) You make the assumption that going back to war in Iraq and war in Syria will solve any problems. We did that already, and the impact was that things are worse. So going in again is going to solve all the problems. Why are ISIS pushing for US troops on the ground? Do you not see that they want this? If they want it, then maybe there's a reason why they want it, and perhaps it means it's not a good idea to put US troops in the way of ISIS bombs and guns again.
I personally do not think we need to put large scale combat forces into Iraq. I think that training them to fight their own war and supporting it with air support and logistical support should be enough. If they wont fight for their own freedom, **** them.
But then again, I do not want to prohibit the forces of other nations either if they can play a constructive role.
3) Christians AREN'T waking up to the fact that a Christian FUCKED THEM SO HARD the penis is coming out of their mouth, and it's Bush's penis. And then they continue to support the simplistic and idiotic right wing view that the only way to solve things is to go to war.
Yeah, because Bush is going around slaughtering Christians in our country. /sarc
Being President is a hard job, I wouldnt want it for damned sure, but taking action that is *likely* to be helpful is always better than sitting on your ass doing little to nothing, and even that only with direct permission, is WORSE when it comes to fighting a war.
The Iranian backed militias and Russian backed Syrians are doing much better in their efforts to defeat ISIS because their hands are not so ridiculously tied as our our US trained Iraqi forces who continue to get rolled back by ISIS. The last battle I read about, our best trained unit of Iraqis was beaten and put to route by a convoy of suicide bombers in trucks, and our allies could not stop them before they reached critical areas.
Now why do you think that is? Because avoiding collateral casualties was given way too much priority over actually winning the god damned war.