The casualties will be worse when jihadists acquire WMD.
There aren’t many Christians left in Pakistan, but that’s still too many for the Taliban. A splinter group of the Pakistani faction of the Islamist terror group claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on Christians celebrating in a park in Lahore on Easter Sunday.
At least 65 people, mostly women and children, were killed and more than 300 others were injured as the terrorists targeted a children’s park in Pakistan’s most cosmopolitan city. “Members of the Christian community who were celebrating Easter today were our prime target,” said a Taliban spokesman who called NBC News from the safety of an undisclosed location.
Islamist attacks on Christians during religious holidays is becoming routine, as the jihadists strive for maximum political impact.
While Europe tries to find and break up jihadist networks after last week’s bombing in Brussels, the Pakistan murders are a reminder that the jihadists are killing even more people in Muslim-majority countries. The victims are Muslims and Christians.
Mass-casualty terrorism has become an almost daily occurrence, and there’s a danger that the world will become inured to it as a new normal. That is dangerous.
A terror group that targets women and children without remorse wouldn’t hesitate to kill tens of thousands, even millions, if it can acquire the means.
GOP frontrunner’s ad called ‘Great Again’ begins airing Tuesday in Iowa and
New Hampshire and promises to ‘quickly cut the head off of Isis and take their
oil’.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has released his first, long-promised
campaign ad: a spot that touts his controversial proposal to ban Muslims from
entering the US “until we can figure out what’s going on”.
The ad then promises Trump will “quickly cut the head off of Isis and take
their oil”.
In the 30-second spot, the narrator also declares that Trump will build a
southern wall to prevent immigrants from illegally crossing over the US border
with Mexico.
Over a somber piano melody, the narrator assures listeners that Mexico will
pay for the wall.
A spokesperson for the Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, said in August
that the country, an important trading partner for the US, would do no such
thing.
“Of course it’s false,” Peña Nieto’s spokesman, Eduardo Sánchez, told
Bloomberg.“It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and
also the irresponsibility of the candidate who’s saying it.”
President Barack Obama appears in the clip alongside Hillary Clinton, just
before the frame changes to show an image of people on stretchers behind photos
of the alleged gunman in the San Bernardino shooting.
“He’s calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United
States, until we can figure out what’s going on,” the narrator says.
Trump’s ad refers to the threat of Islamic extremism, which like other forms
of religious extremism has existed for millennia.
“He’ll quickly cut the head off of Isis and take their oil,” the ad
continues.
Trump first proposed to ban Muslims last month at a campaign rally in
Charleston, South Carolina.
Footage of Trump promoting this proposal was used in a new recruitment film,
released this weekend, for Somalia’s al-Shabaab militant group.
Trump told the Washington Post that he hopes that the ad, and others in
production, can sway undecided voters.
“The world is laughing at us, at our stupidity,” Trump said. “It’s got to
stop. We’ve got to get smart fast – or else we won’t have a country.”
The ad, which is called “Great Again”, will start airing in New Hampshire
and Iowa on Tuesday.
Trump’s campaign said that it plans to spend at least $2m each week to air
the ad.
Trump said in a statement:
“I am very proud of this ad, I don’t know if I need it, but I don’t want to
take any chances because if I win we are going to Make America Great Again.”
Sources: Donald Trump.com, The Guardian, USA Today, Washington Post, Youtube
I HOPE HIS COLOR & RACE DOESN'T MATTER TO YOU EITHER.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
"For unto us a Child is Born, unto us a Son is given." Isaiah 9:6
On today December 25th we celebrate the Birth of JESUS CHRIST.
Even though JESUS was actually born in the month of SEPTEMBER, due to the Judeo-Christian calendar we celebrate his Birthday on December 25.
We all know JESUS was a real Human Being, born in the Middle East to JEWISH parents.
As a curious Christian, I used to be caught up in Foolish arguments about JESUS' race, his Skin color, Eye color and Hair texture.
But no more!
I no longer care what Color JESUS was because such arguments keep Human Beings divided and at odds about Race Relations.
I now only care about the Truth of JESUS' Birth, his Ministry on Earth, his Crucifixion, his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven where he now sits beside his Heavenly Father GOD Almighty.
In trying to police his depiction, Megyn Kelly is wrong on both the facts and the essential universality of the Christian message.
Fox News television host Megyn Kelly told viewers on her December 11 broadcast that Jesus and Santa are both white men.
"Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change," Kelly said. "Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure that's a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?"
Setting aside the ridiculousness of creating rigidly racial depictions of a fictitious character that does not actually exist—sorry, kids—like Santa, Kelly has made a more serious error about Jesus.
The scholarly consensus is actually that Jesus was, like most first-century Jews, probably a dark-skinned man. If he were taking the red-eye flight from San Francisco to New York today, Jesus might be profiled for additional security screening by TSA.
The myth of a white Jesus is one with deep roots throughout Christian history. As early as the Middle Ages and particularly during the Renaissance, popular Western artists depicted Jesus as a white man, often with blue eyes and blondish hair.
Perhaps fueled by some Biblical verses correlating lightness with purity and righteousness and darkness with sin and evil, these images sought to craft a sterile Son of God.
The only problem was that the representations were historically inaccurate.
Modern Western Christians have carried these images over into their own depictions of Jesus. Pick up a one of those bright blue “Bible Story” books in a Sunday School classroom and you’ll find white Jesus waiting for you, rosy cheeks and all. Or you could survey the light-skinned Jesus in any number of modern TV or film portrayals, including History Channel’s hit series The Bible.
Interestingly, the Bible is far less descriptive on the matter of Jesus’ skin color than we are. Christian scriptures say very little about Jesus’ physical appearance. They do not comment on his nose, eye color, skin pigmentation, or hair.
The glaring exception is Isaiah 53:2, which prophesies that the messiah won’t be much to look at, another fact that places the Bible at odds with the “well-groomed surfer-dude Jesus” who's often put forth.
If the Bible is silent on the matter of Jesus’ skin color, does it really matter that Megyn Kelly says Jesus is white?
Yes, actually.
As some historians and theologians have posited, the silence of the Scriptures on the issue of Jesus’ skin color is critical to Christianity’s broad appeal with people of various ethnicities. In a world where race often divides communities and even churches, the Biblical depictions of God’s son positions him as one who can bridge those divides.
For this reason, one American Presbyterian minister in the 1880s warned his flock not to trust popular images of Christ:
If He were particularised and localised—if, for example, He were made a man with a pale face—then the man of the ebony face would feel that there was a greater distance between Christ and him than between Christ and his white brother.’ Instead, because the Bible refused to describe Jesus in terms of racial features, his gospel could appeal to all.
Only in this way could the Church be a place where the ‘Caucasian and Mongolian and African sit together at the Lord’s table, and we all think alike of Jesus, and we all feel that He is alike our brother’.
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Advice for Living” column for Ebony in 1957, the civil-rights leader was asked, “Why did God make Jesus white, when the majority of peoples in the world are non-white?” King replied, “The color of Jesus’ skin is of little or no consequence” because what made Jesus exceptional “His willingness to surrender His will to God’s will.”
His point, as historian Edward Blum has noted, is that Jesus transcends race.
Those warnings hold just as true for believers today. Within the church, eschewing a Jesus who looks more like a Scandinavian supermodel than the sinless Son of God in the scriptures is critical to maintaining a faith in which all can give praise to one who became like them in an effort to save them from sins like racism and prejudice.
It's important for Christians who want to expand the church, too, in allowing the creation of communities that are able to worship a Jesus who builds bridges rather than barriers.
And it is essential to enabling those who bear the name of Christ to look forward to that day when, according to the book of Revelation, those “from every nation, tribe, people, and language” can worship God together.
Until that day arrives, though, can someone please tell Megyn Kelly that Jesus is not white?
2016 GOP Presidential front runner DONALD TRUMP strongly believes rebuilding America's gutted Military and taking control of Oil fields which ISIL has stolen, are the only ways to effectively Defeat ISIL.
DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO TAKE CONTROL OF MIDDLE EAST OIL FIELDS, BOMB ISIL & REBUILD U.S. MILITARY:
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has elaborated on his strategy to defeat the terrorist group ISIS at a memorable rally in Iowa and during an interview Thursday on CNN.
During a speech at Decker Auditorium in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Trump said he would go after ISIS-controlled oil fields and "bomb the s--- out of 'em," to loud applause.
"ISIS is making a tremendous amount of money because they have certain oil camps, certain areas of oil that they took away," Trump said.
He continued: "They have some in Syria, some in Iraq. I would bomb the s--- out of 'em. I would just bomb those suckers. That's right. I'd blow up the pipes. ... I'd blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left. And you know what, you'll get Exxon to come in there and in two months, you ever see these guys, how good they are, the great oil companies? They’ll rebuild that sucker, brand new — it'll be beautiful."
Trump described a similar strategy to CNN's Anderson Cooper, who asked Trump whether he might be destroying the wealth of Iraq if he went after the country's oil fields.
"There is no Iraq," Trump responded. "Their leaders are corrupt."
Cooper said Iraqis might disagree with him, but Trump pressed on.
"Excuse me, there are no Iraqis. They're broken up into so many different factions," he said.
Cooper also asked whether the US would need troops on the ground to protect the oil fields that Trump would rebuild after bombing ISIS out of them. Trump said he would put a "ring" of troops around the fields.
"You put a ring around them," Trump said of the oil fields. "You put a ring."
But if Trump had his way, the US wouldn't be involved in these conflicts at all.
"I would love not to be over there," Trump said. "That’s not our fight — that's other people's fights."
ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, makes a glut of money from oil, but that's far from its only revenue source. Experts say much of ISIS' money comes from extortion and pillaging — essentially ripping off the people and institutions in territory it has seized.
Still, oil revenues make up a significant portion of ISIS' funding. Local sources, oil experts, and Western intelligence officials told the Financial Times this year that ISIS ran "a sprawling operation almost akin to a state oil company that has grown in size and expertise despite international attempts to destroy it."
Sources estimate that Deir Ezzor, the Syrian province that holds some of the most fruitful oil fields under ISIS control, produces 34,000 to 40,000 barrels of oil each day.
Several other oil fields the group controls produce 200 to 17,000 barrels per day, the FT found. The barrels sell for $20 to $45, depending on where they came from.
ISIS sells mostly to "independent traders" who then either sell to other traders or take the crude to refineries or local oil markets. The traders make a profit of about $10 a barrel, according to the FT.
Though ISIS might be making millions on oil now, it's unlikely that the group can keep up at its current pace.
ISIS is reportedly already struggling to keep up the aging infrastructure that allows the group to extract and sell oil.
The FT reported that ISIS doesn't have the technology or equipment to maintain the oil fields the group controls.
Production is reportedly down in those fields since ISIS took over.
The president used to talk tough about wiping out the terror army. Not any more.
A year ago, President Barack Obama talked a big talk when it came to the so-called Islamic State, declaring that the United States and its allies would “degrade and ultimately destroy” the group that had seized large territories in Iraq and Syria.
But this week, even with the victory in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar and the news that ISIS’s most famous executioner Mohammed Emwazi—best known as “Jihadi John”—was likely killed in a U.S. drone strike, Obama struck a very different tone.
Gone were the buzzwords “defeat” and “destroy.” Instead, Obama said the U.S. strategy had always been to “contain” the group, a subtle shift in language, and another indication that progress against the group has been far more difficult to achieve than originally envisioned.
“From the start, our goal has been first to contain them, and we have contained them,” Obama told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos in a Thursday afternoon interview that took place before the strike against Emwazi.
But when Obama first told the American public a year ago about his strategy, he said it was to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS.
In that speech, Obama acknowledged that it would take time to defeat ISIS, but the conditions he described on Thursday conveyed a fight that could take more than a generation to resolve.
“Until we get the Syrian political situation resolved and until Assad is no longer a lightning rod for Sunnis in Syria, and that entire region is no longer a proxy war for Shia-Sunni conflict, we are going to continue to have problems,” Obama said.
In the meantime, the ISIS threat will have to be contained, he said.
“We have indeed gone from ‘degrade and destroy’ to what is effectively a containment strategy,” said Faysal Itani of the Atlantic Council. “I believe this reflects the president’s assessment that destroying ISIS outright is either impossible at present, or would carry unacceptable political and military costs and risks.”
Itani said it’s difficult to gauge whether Obama “has always believed this and is now merely bringing his rhetoric in line with his belief, or whether he genuinely expected the anti-ISIS effort to go better than it has and was forced to abandon the ‘degrade and destroy’ mission.”
Compared to the momentum ISIS had in June 2014, when it rolled into Mosul, easily capturing Iraq’s second-largest city, and threatening to do the same in Baghdad and Erbil, the group can be seen as largely “contained,” at least in Iraq.
But Obama’s assertion Thursday that ISIS has not gained ground in Iraq overlooks the important capture of Ramadi, which ISIS took in May.
And while it’s no longer marching on Baghdad, ISIS has managed to hang on to most of its key territory in Iraq, and the U.S. and Iraqi forces have had to indefinitely delay the crucial battle to retake Mosul, an offensive originally forecasted to take place last spring.
Meanwhile, in Syria, the group has faced setbacks—most famously being driven out of the border town of Kobani—but it has also managed to expand its control, taking new towns in central Syria.
But, Obama does not think the group is gaining strength.
HE SAID IT WILL ONLY BE A THREE-YEAR AUTHORIZATION.
**Sources: NY Times; White House; Youtube
~ For Immediate Release February 11, 2015
~ Letter from the President -- Authorization for the Use of United States Armed Forces in connection with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
~ TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses a threat to the people and stability of Iraq, Syria, and the broader Middle East, and to U.S. national security.
It threatens American personnel and facilities located in the region and is responsible for the deaths of U.S. citizens James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. If left unchecked, ISIL will pose a threat beyond the Middle East, including to the United States homeland.
I have directed a comprehensive and sustained strategy to degrade and defeat ISIL. As part of this strategy, U.S. military forces are conducting a systematic campaign of airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
Although existing statutes provide me with the authority I need to take these actions, I have repeatedly expressed my commitment to working with the Congress to pass a bipartisan authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) against ISIL.
Consistent with this commitment, I am submitting a draft AUMF that would authorize the continued use of military force to degrade and defeat ISIL.
My Administration's draft AUMF would not authorize long‑term, large-scale ground combat operations like those our Nation conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Local forces, rather than U.S. military forces, should be deployed to conduct such operations.
The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other, more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership.
It would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes, or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.
Although my proposed AUMF does not address the 2001 AUMF, I remain committed to working with the Congress and the American people to refine, and ultimately repeal, the 2001 AUMF.
Enacting an AUMF that is specific to the threat posed by ISIL could serve as a model for how we can work together to tailor the authorities granted by the 2001 AUMF.
I can think of no better way for the Congress to join me in supporting our Nation's security than by enacting this legislation, which would show the world we are united in our resolve to counter the threat posed by ISIL.
Sources: ABC News; MSNBC; NBC News; NY Daily News; White House; Youtube
LAST WEEK #ISIL CLAIMED JORDAN KILLED U.S. HOSTAGE KAYLA JEAN MUELLER.
BUT I BELIEVE ISIL MURDERED KAYLA MONTHS AGO.
THE GOP IS SALIVATING AT THE START OF WORLD WAR 3 VIA COMBAT TROOPS BUT COOLER HEADS MUST PREVAIL BECAUSE ISIL LEADERS ARE VERY INTELLIGENT.
SO WILL THOUSANDS OF ENLISTED TROOPS WILL BE SACRIFICED TO ISIL BY CONGRESS FOR OIL MONEY & WAR PROFITEERING CONTRACTS IN THE NAME OF "NATIONAL SECURITY"??
26-year-old KAYLA was taken captive by ISIL members in August of 2013, while employed as a U.S. Aid Worker in SYRIA to help Syrian Refugees.
Last week ISIL leaders claimed KAYLA was recently Killed during Airstrikes fired by the Jordanian Military.
However I along with many other American citizens believe ISIL's version of Kayla's Death is just more Terrorist PROPAGANDA and that Kayla was most likely Murdered Months ago by ISIL members.
Considering the fact she was a Young, WHITE Woman, ISIL leaders probably Raped her and passed her around.
I know this sounds terrible but one can only imagine the Physical, Emotional & Mental Atrocities Kayla Suffered before being Murdered.
The public needs to know just how BRUTAL the members of ISIL really are.
Even to WOMEN!
I realize a letter that a former French Captor released to the Media supposedly written by KAYLA, claims She was NOT Harmed while in captivity but I don't believe it.
ISIL has a confirmed reputation for Beheading & Burning Men, WOMEN and CHILDREN!
So why would KAYLA be treated Differently??
If KAYLA were Not harmed by ISIL members she would still be ALIVE!
Kayla should of course be Admired for Courageously wanting to help the Syrian Refugees but when U.S. Aid Workers travel to a WAR Zone in the Middle East, being Captured & Murdered by AL QAEDA Terrorists such as ISIL, is a Risk which must be previously Considered.
This includes U.S. Aid Workers who are WOMEN.
Due to ISIL's reign of Terror, GOD only knows how Brutally Kayla may have been Murdered.
My Heart sincerely goes out to Kayla's Mother and I offer my deepest Condolences to Kayla's Family.
So does news of Kayla's Cold-Blooded Murder mean Congress or Pres OBAMA should RUSH into starting WORLD WAR THREE?
No it does NOT!
When dealing with such Cold-Blooded TERRORISTS as ISIL, Cooler Heads must Prevail amongst the ranks of American Leadership.
I Pray Pres OBAMA does not succumb to pressure from Congressional WAR hawks, who look for any excuse to send U.S. Troops to WAR in the Middle East. Especially if it means fattening their pockets via WAR Profiteering Contracts!
ISIL Leaders know the Middle East's Blueprint like the back of their hands and they are very Intelligent people, who have diligently Studied how the U.S. Military operates in a Combat situation.
To assume the U.S. Military can Defeat ISIL in a Combat situation in the Vast Middle East would be a Foolish Presumption, and an Act of GENOCIDE against U.S. Military Armed Forces.
ISIL wants to leads the U.S. Military into one Large, Deadly Booby-Trap.
Killing thousands & thousands of U.S. Military Troops is a JIHAD Dream for ISIL members!
ISIL has created a Different type of WAR in the Middle East which now requires the use of more U.S. Military INTELLIGENCE, versus just the use of more Boots-on-the-Ground.
Given these Facts, it is unfortunate that many GOP members of Congress don't care about sending more U.S. Military Troops into another Endless Middle East WAR which can Not be won in a Combat theater.
So why don't most GOP members of Congress care about sending more U.S. Military Troops into another Endless Middle East WAR which can Not be achieved in a Combat theater?
***Two Reasons:
#1) OIL Money & Huge WAR Profiteering Contracts.
I would hope GOP members of CONGRESS would Not be so Greedy as to Intentionally Sacrifice U.S. Military Troops to ISIL in the name of "NATIONAL SECURITY", for more OIL Money & WAR Profiteering Contracts.
CONGRESS has enough MILLIONAIRES who became Super Wealthy via Middle East WAR Profiteering Contracts!
#2) Many of the Enlisted U.S. Military Troops who will be Sacrificed to ISIL will be BLACK & LATINO Enlisted Soldiers and BLACK & LATINO Commissioned Officers.
I doubt seriously if any Enlisted U.S. Military Troops Killed by ISIL will come from the branches of the NAVY or AIR FORCE.
Why??
Because the Majority of all NAVY & AIR FORCE members are WHITE.
I did NOT say there are NO BLACK & LATINO members serving in the NAVY or AIR FORCE.
I stated the Majority of all NAVY & AIR FORCE members serving in those branches are indeed WHITE.
While the Majority of all ARMY & MARINE members are BLACK and LATINO.
Thus we all know who will be Sacrificed FIRST to ISIL or any in Military Conflict.
I am very Proud of our Men & Women who bravely Defend our Nation via service in the U.S. Military.
But it is important to know that unfortunately the ugly head of RACISM has also spread within the U.S. Military ranks, just as it has entered every other American Institution.
It is time to PRAY intensely for the entire U.S. Military.
It is time to PRAY intensely for the United States of America.
It is time to PRAY intensely for MUSLIM citizens world wide who will be Blamed for ISIL's actions and many of whom will be Falsely labeled as JIHADISTS.
It is time to PRAY intensely for PEACE in all of the Middle East, including ISRAEL.
It is time to PRAY intensely for Pres OBAMA, Pentagon Leaders and each member of CONGRESS that GOD will grant them all WISDOM.
I repeat......
When dealing with such Cold-Blooded TERRORISTS as ISIL, Cooler Heads must Prevail amongst the ranks of American Leadership.
I Pray Pres OBAMA does not succumb to pressure from Congressional WAR hawks, who look for any excuse to send U.S. Troops to WAR in the Middle East. Especially if it means fattening their pockets via WAR Profiteering Contracts!
ISIL Leaders know the Middle East's Blueprint like the back of their hands and they are very Intelligent people, who have diligently Studied how the U.S. Military operates in a Combat situation.
To assume the U.S. Military can Defeat ISIL in a Combat situation in the Vast Middle East would be a Foolish Presumption, and an Act of GENOCIDE against U.S. Military Armed Forces.
ISIL wants to leads the U.S. Military into one Large, Deadly Booby-Trap.
Killing thousands & thousands of U.S. Military Troops is a JIHAD Dream for ISIL members.
ISIL has created a Different type of WAR in the Middle East which now requires the use of more U.S. Military INTELLIGENCE, versus just the use of more Boots-on-the-Ground.
****HOWEVER I BELIEVE ISIL MURDERED KAYLA MONTHS AGO.
~ THE GOP IS SALIVATING AT THE START OF WORLD WAR 3 BUT COOLER HEADS MUST PREVAIL BECAUSE ISIL LEADERS ARE VERY INTELLIGENT.
~ WILL THOUSANDS OF ENLISTED TROOPS WILL BE SACRIFICED TO ISIL BY CONGRESS FOR OIL MONEY & WAR PROFITEERING CONTRACTS IN THE NAME OF "NATIONAL SECURITY"??
26-year-old American aid worker Kayla Jean Mueller of Prescott, Ariz., who was taken captive by ISIL in August 2013, is now believed to be DEAD.
ISIL leaders claims she was recently Killed by Airstrikes fired by the Jordanian Military.
I along with many other American citizens believe ISIL's version of Kayla's Death is just more Terrorist PROPAGANDA and that Kayla was most likely Murdered Months ago by ISIL members.
Considering the fact she was a Young, WHITE Woman, ISIL leaders probably Raped her and passed her around.
One can only imagine the Physical, Emotional & Mental Atrocities Kayla Suffered before being Murdered.
Kayla should be Admired for Courageously wanting to help the Syrian Refugees but when U.S. Aid Workers travel to a WAR Zone in the Middle East, being Captured & Murdered by AL QAEDA Terrorists such as ISIL, is a Risk they must Consider.
This includes U.S. Aid Workers who are WOMEN.
Due to ISIL's reign of Terror, GOD only knows how Brutally Kayla may have been Murdered.
My Heart goes out to Kayla's Mother and I offer my deepest Condolences to Kayla's Family.
So does news of Kayla's Cold-Blooded Murder mean Congress or Pres OBAMA should RUSH into starting WORLD WAR THREE??
No it does NOT!
When dealing with such Cold-Blooded TERRORISTS as ISIL, Cooler Heads must Prevail amongst the ranks of American Leadership.
ISIL Leaders know the Middle East's Blueprint like the back of their hands and they are very Intelligent people, who have diligently Studied how the U.S. Military operates in a Combat situation.
To assume the U.S. Military can Defeat ISIL in a Combat situation in the Vast Middle East would be a Foolish Presumption, and an Act of GENOCIDE against U.S. Military Armed Forces.
ISIL wants to leads the U.S. Military into one Large, Deadly Booby-Trap.
Killing thousands & thousands of U.S. Military Troops is a JIHAD Dream for ISIL members.
ISIL has created a Different type of WAR in the Middle East which now requires the use of more U.S. Military INTELLIGENCE, versus just the use of more Boots-on-the-Ground.
Given these Facts, it is unfortunate that many GOP members of Congress don't care about sending more U.S. Military Troops into another Endless Middle East WAR which can Not be won in a Combat theater.
So why don't most GOP members of Congress care about sending more U.S. Military Troops into another Endless Middle East WAR which can Not be achieved in a Combat theater?
***Two Reasons:
#1) OIL Money & Huge WAR Profiteering Contracts.
I would hope GOP members of CONGRESS would Not be so Greedy as to Intentionally Sacrifice U.S. Military Troops to ISIL in the name of "NATIONAL SECURITY", for more OIL Money & WAR Profiteering Contracts.
CONGRESS has enough MILLIONAIRES who became Super Wealthy via Middle East WAR Profiteering Contracts!
#2) Many of the Enlisted U.S. Military Troops who will be Sacrificed to ISIL will be BLACK & LATINO Enlisted Soldiers and BLACK & LATINO Commissioned Officers.
I doubt seriously if any Enlisted U.S. Military Troops Killed by ISIL will come from the branches of the NAVY or AIR FORCE.
Why?
Because the Majority of all NAVY & AIR FORCE members are WHITE.
I did NOT say there are NO BLACK & LATINO members serving in the NAVY or AIR FORCE.
I stated the Majority of all NAVY & AIR FORCE members serving in those branches are indeed WHITE.
While the Majority of all ARMY & MARINE members are BLACK and LATINO.
Thus we all know who will be Sacrificed FIRST to ISIL or any in Military Conflict.
It is time to PRAY intensely for the entire U.S. Military.
It is time to PRAY intensely for the United States of America.
It is time to PRAY intensely for MUSLIM citizens world wide who will be Blamed for ISIL's actions and many of whom will be Falsely labeled as JIHADISTS.
It is time to PRAY intensely for PEACE in all of the Middle East, including ISRAEL.
It is time to PRAY intensely for Pres OBAMA, Pentagon Leaders and each member of CONGRESS that GOD will grant them all WISDOM.
I repeat.....
When dealing with such Cold-Blooded TERRORISTS as ISIL, Cooler Heads must Prevail amongst the ranks of American Leadership.
ISIL Leaders know the Middle East's Blueprint like the back of their hands and they are very Intelligent people, who have diligently Studied how the U.S. Military operates in a Combat situation.
To assume the U.S. Military can Defeat ISIL in a Combat situation in the Vast Middle East would be a Foolish Presumption, and an Act of GENOCIDE against U.S. Military Armed Forces.
ISIL wants to leads the U.S. Military into one Large, Deadly Booby-Trap.
Killing thousands & thousands of U.S. Military Troops is a JIHAD Dream for ISIL members.
ISIL has created a Different type of WAR in the Middle East which now requires the use of more U.S. Military INTELLIGENCE, versus just the use of more Boots-on-the-Ground.
Sources: CBS News; CNN; The Telegraph; Washington Post; Youtube
They hide in safe houses on the outskirts of this city, talk only fleetingly on cellphones and avoid the cafes where they used to meet. Heavy scarves obscure their identities when they venture out to join protests.
The leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, now outlawed, have adjusted to life underground, even while hundreds of their fellow members have been arrested in this city since the military deposed President Mohamed Morsi, a Brotherhood leader, and the Egyptian government branded the group a terrorist movement.
Yet, rather than crack and disintegrate under the pressure, members say, the group has fallen back on the organizational structure that sustained it for decades as a banned and secretive movement. It is becoming more decentralized, but also more cohesive and rigid, as its members abandon activities like preaching and social work and shift their attention to a virtually singular goal: resistance to the military-backed government.
Their focus, many Brotherhood members say, is a protracted, grinding struggle.
“There is a vision of a political confrontation that can go on for years,” said one leader, a 33-year-old architect in Fayoum, an Islamist stronghold. He, along with other members, spoke in a cafe for a time, but changed locations after suspecting the employees were eavesdropping.
“This is our persistence stage,” he said. “We are trying to stand up as long as we can.”
The Brotherhood’s endurance so far all but ensures that Egypt will continue to be troubled by civil conflict. And it raises further doubts about the government’s attempts to extinguish a movement that has resisted such efforts since its founding more than 80 years ago and that draws support from hundreds of thousands of members and millions of affiliates and sympathizers throughout the country.
Although leaders of the group say they remain committed to protests to express their activism, some members said that many of its sympathizers were increasingly talking of violence.
“I know people who are not Muslim brothers who say, ‘We’ll get your rights back for you,’ ” said Ramadan Fadel, a 27-year-old member in Fayoum who said that an acquaintance had told him that people were ready to take up arms to protect the group.
In places like Mansoura, north of Cairo, where the Brotherhood’s footprint is smaller, there was less talk of confrontation than of survival, beginning with the difficulty of attracting new recruits. “Who would want to undergo this repression?” asked a doctor who lives just outside the city and who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
Some members described the conflict as a zero-sum game between the military and the Brotherhood. Underscoring the perils of that conflict, at least 13 people were killed on Friday during Brotherhood marches throughout the country in some of the deadliest clashes in months.
“Our backs are against the wall,” the doctor said. The military, he added, “has left us only one path.”
After the ouster of Mr. Morsi, the few government ministers who spoke of reconciliation complained that the Brotherhood was unyielding in its demands, even as hard-liners escalated a crackdown on the movement, killing hundreds of protesters and imprisoning almost every senior leader. Now the hawks are ascendant, no one talks of compromise and officials openly accuse the Brotherhood of carrying out deadly and spectacular attacks on the security services, even when unrelated militant groups claim responsibility for such attacks.
Last week, for instance, Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, a government hard-liner, accused the Brotherhood of conspiring to carry out “hostile schemes” over the years with “extremist factions,” including Palestinian militants.
In reality, though, the roots of the government’s problems are much closer to home.
In cities like Mansoura, the doctor said, members have continued to attend the small, weekly “family” meetings that are considered the most critical building blocks of the organization, and the wellspring of the brotherhood’s cohesion and its ideology.
In many neighborhoods in Fayoum, campaign posters for Mr. Morsi still hang on the walls, evidence of the futility of the government’s campaign, Brotherhood members say.
For now, Brotherhood members in Fayoum said they were concentrating on replenishing their ranks, reaching out to new recruits while trying to coax lapsed, older members into more active service. Four of the members, including a senior leader, detailed the movement’s strategy, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they feared drawing further attention from the authorities.
Efforts to keep the movement alive began after Mr. Morsi’s ouster in July, the members said, when leaders appointed deputies, who in turn appointed their own deputies, to ensure a continuity of leadership as the crackdown on protests intensified. As thousands of Islamists from across the country demonstrated in Cairo for the return of Mr. Morsi, meetings were held in the squares where the protests occurred, near the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque and at Cairo University.
When the authorities stormed the squares on Aug. 14, killing hundreds of protesters, the Brotherhood faced its greatest organizational crisis, the members said. “It took about 15 days to absorb the shock, and get back to our grass roots,” said one member, a 26-year-old veterinarian. “Now we’re expanding.”
Still, a growing pressure on the Brotherhood has forced adjustments. Meetings are now held in private homes, and members approach security checkpoints and attend protests assuming they will be arrested. Some of the protests have become more like flash mobs, with demonstrators scattering quickly to avoid a heavy security response.
Some of the older Brotherhood leaders, for whom living under repression had become a way of life, boasted about the movement’s tenacity.
But for younger members, facing the wrath of the state was still a shock. Mr. Fadel, the 27-year-old, said he had become terrified of being singled out as a member of the Brotherhood by people on the street. His family has also pressured him to leave the movement.
Having been wounded by birdshot during protests, he said, he had prepared himself for the likelihood that he would be killed. “For now I see no future,” he said. “I fear for my family.”
With the group’s narrow focus on survival, there was little talk about the long-term direction of the movement, or the mistakes during Mr. Morsi’s time in power, a tenure that ended with millions of angry Egyptians on the streets demanding his ouster. The Brotherhood members talked about a few “errors” but mostly complained about what they said were conspiracies that doomed their rule.
Their official demand, that the military takeover be reversed, has not changed since July. On the horizon were nothing but protests and some unspecified type of resistance that the leaders in Fayoum promised to unveil on Jan. 25, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak.
In Mansoura, where a bombing last month was followed by retaliatory violence against the Brotherhood, the members of the movement have faced greater difficulties. The doctor said he and other members had learned to live by new rules.
“Don’t stand in the street together for too long,” the doctor said. “If you have money, gold or documents that are important for you or the Muslim Brotherhood, take them to a relative or a friend you trust.”
“We’re now placed in the same boat,” he said. “We must be tighter together than we were before, so the crisis passes.”
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