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With his usual killer comedy timing, the "leader of the free world" told George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning, America" this very morning that he'd "contained" ISIS and that they're not "gaining strength". A few hours later, a cell whose members claim to have been recruited by ISIS slaughtered over 150 people in the heart of Paris and succeeded in getting two suicide bombers and a third bomb to within a few yards of the French president.
I have to stop posting on this board, because so many people who have no idea what they are talking about really raise my blood pressure...
Wow, thanks in part to the magic of cannabis, I just realized a perfect way to explain why the OP is completely wrong: What if the Chinese government in the 1970s sold rice to the US? Would that be the US supporting the USSR? No. Why? They are both communist?
Yes, but China and the USSR had different kinds of communism and really hated each other. China was Maoist, in which peasants were the revolutionary class and imperialism was never justified (which is why the USSR spread communism world-wide, but China never really did) as well as cultural revolution etc.
Those in Gitmo follow mostly mainline Salafi doctrine and what I like to call "Wahhabist-Qutbism", which is a mixture of wahhabi adition with the political ideology of Sayyid Qutb. ISIS on the other hand are basically a millennialist group who truly think they are the ones spoken of in the Hadiths and that judgement day is coming in a few years, perhaps less.
In other words, most Wahhabist-Qutbist (Al-queada, Abu-Sayyaf, Ansar-al-Islam, Ansar-al-Sharia etc) believe in creating a state for Muslims to await the coming of their messiah, the caliphate, and judgement day but first they must defend the Ummah (Muslim community) with their lives and overthrow non-Islamic regimes. ISIS says that judgement day is so soon there is no need to wage Jihad against those who hurt the Ummah, because those are not the true Muslims anyway, and that they ARE the army of judgement day.
And hence, most of the Jihadi world hates ISIS and are their enemies. If anything Obama, a guy I really can't stand usually, is doing the right thing: let our enemies destroy each other. Let the Taliban fight ISIS, as well as Al-Ansar and Al-Queada. When Wahabis kill each other instead of us, it is just as good as when China and the USSR have beef.
With his usual killer comedy timing, the "leader of the free world" told George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning, America" this very morning that he'd "contained" ISIS and that they're not "gaining strength". A few hours later, a cell whose members claim to have been recruited by ISIS slaughtered over 150 people in the heart of Paris and succeeded in getting two suicide bombers and a third bomb to within a few yards of the French president.
That's just it- He's arguably not the "leader of the free world" anymore. Putin, China, some countries in Europe, and others are doing what they wish. America is not in relative decline, we are in straight decline. Therefore, the smarter places around the world have had to take matters upon themselves.
France bombed ISI-? .. Putin went in to defend his interests. Iran went in to defend it's interests. Saudi went in to defend it's interests. America fiddled. Drew lines and stepped back.
The situation is so stark, that I would suspect if the IS people pulled off a 9/11, the USA could not, nor would not be able to effectively respond. The congress would be torn and the current President would waffle. Therefore, what could happen is that if an attack is bad enough is completely unknown. The President could be recalled, a council of Governors could go to Washington.
It forces one to think what happens if the President can't or refuses to defend the nation, who else can step in to fulfill that role. If it sounds far fetched, replace NYC for Paris and you're there.
I have to stop posting on this board, because so many people who have no idea what they are talking about really raise my blood pressure...
Wow, thanks in part to the magic of cannabis, I just realized a perfect way to explain why the OP is completely wrong: What if the Chinese government in the 1970s sold rice to the US? Would that be the US supporting the USSR? No. Why? They are both communist?
Yes, but China and the USSR had different kinds of communism and really hated each other. China was Maoist, in which peasants were the revolutionary class and imperialism was never justified (which is why the USSR spread communism world-wide, but China never really did) as well as cultural revolution etc.
Those in Gitmo follow mostly mainline Salafi doctrine and what I like to call "Wahhabist-Qutbism", which is a mixture of wahhabi adition with the political ideology of Sayyid Qutb. ISIS on the other hand are basically a millennialist group who truly think they are the ones spoken of in the Hadiths and that judgement day is coming in a few years, perhaps less.
In other words, most Wahhabist-Qutbist (Al-queada, Abu-Sayyaf, Ansar-al-Islam, Ansar-al-Sharia etc) believe in creating a state for Muslims to await the coming of their messiah, the caliphate, and judgement day but first they must defend the Ummah (Muslim community) with their lives and overthrow non-Islamic regimes. ISIS says that judgement day is so soon there is no need to wage Jihad against those who hurt the Ummah, because those are not the true Muslims anyway, and that they ARE the army of judgement day.
And hence, most of the Jihadi world hates ISIS and are their enemies. If anything Obama, a guy I really can't stand usually, is doing the right thing: let our enemies destroy each other. Let the Taliban fight ISIS, as well as Al-Ansar and Al-Queada. When Wahabis kill each other instead of us, it is just as good as when China and the USSR have beef.
That's fine but how many Innocents have to die, be raped or tortured by the hord while they are killing each other
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