"The apparent beheading follows two posted in the past month by the Islamic State showing the executions of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff. It has similar visual characteristics to those videos. In those videos, the insurgent group warned President Obama there would be consequences if the U.S. did not stop airstrikes against it in Iraq." (read more)Having delineated a strategy better known for what it purports it wont be, namely "boots on the ground", wouldn't more beheadings challenge the perspicacity of such a strategy?
I thought we were done with halfhearted, one hand tied behind our backs war waging.
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This is Islam.
If we won't go attach these guys, can we at least start making fun of them on twitter for calling out Obama and killing a British hostage? #USIndependentofUK #July4was1776
That should be as affective as #BringBackOurGirls which was more effective than what we are doing now.
Anyway, back to #19thHole
Leland...
We shall fight them with hashtags
Coming to a nation near you.
Can't you just let them practice their religion peacefully?
Good quoting Winston. If only his country realized his acuity on Muzzies was as sharp as what he caught (and they missed) about Hitler:
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Quote that today in Britain and it'll get you arrested.
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Ahhh… there's more. The man knew of that which he spoke:
Fanaticism is not a cause of war. It is the means which helps savage peoples to fight. It is the spirit which enables them to combine--the great common object before which all personal or tribal disputes become insignificant. What the horn is to the rhinoceros, what the sting is to the wasp, the Mohammedan faith was to the Arabs of the Soudan--a faculty of offence or defense.
It is, thank heaven, difficult if not impossible for the modern European to fully appreciate the force which fanaticism exercises among an ignorant, warlike and Oriental population. Several generations have elapsed since the nations of the West have drawn the sword in religious controversy, and the evil memories of the gloomy past have soon faded in the strong, clear light of Rationalism and human sympathy. Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men's passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination. But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis--as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace. Luckily the religion of peace is usually the better armed.
Our feckless president's lack of serious response is sending the signal to Putin, Iran's mullahs, the Chicoms, Fatboy in N. Korea and god knows who else that NOW is the time to move. A thug field-day for the next two years.
This is how leftists fight wars, if they even get up the nerve to do it. Half-assed, witless, and without consequence.
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