The Islamic State

Pro ISIS rally in the Netherlands:



http://www.newsweek.com/pro-isis-demonstrators-call-death-jews-hague-262064

 

The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled.

They were often armed in an indiscriminate way by other forces and we had no skin in the game that really enabled us to prevent this indiscriminate arming.

http://theatln.tc/1A4REZ2

 

Less funny in Arabic.

 

Great nations need organizing principles, and “Don’t do stupid stuff” is not an organizing principle.

 

Obama's former Ambassador to Iraq:

That's why General Austin, supported by me, recommended that they stay on. We would have had a better equipped Iraqi army. We would have had better eyes on, on what the problem was, we would have been able to do certain counterterrorism operations. But most importantly, it's psychological.

We would have still had a stake in that country and we would have cared for what Maliki was doing and we would have had more leverage to change it. Again, Senator Reed is right. This is basically an Iraqi issue with Maliki's misuse of power.

But it would have been better if we could have had troops on.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-august-10-2014-reed-fukuda-jeffrey/

 

Wonder if all the Hollywood libs making excuses for Hamas will love it when they have to wear burkas on the beach in Ibizia.

 

It's not a bad start, though.

 

Not that ISIS isn't a concern, but I'm pretty sure that map was debunked shortly after it first appeared. It was something put up by "fans" of the group.

 

Yeah, I kinda like it.

 

Religion doing that thing that religion does. Yay.

 

But it's all part of God's plan, so it's OK.

 

In what way?