Thus when foreigners see the Real Deal, American patriots in action, they are changed for the better.

This is independent of foreign policy or politics, because it is people communicating with actual American people.

While it’s easy for people stuck in their peace malls in the US to talk about Iraqis they’ve never seen or met, it won’t be so easy when US Civil War II comes to their doorstep. Then you’ll be “seeing” things.

Having served in a US ‘occupation’ (Korea), I can say that it doesn’t work like that.

When I first arrived in Korea as a young trooper, I actually thought I was going to be an ogrish foreign occupier, per the leftist stereotype. I quickly learned that we have a strictly delineated defense role in Korea that steers clear of their civil society.

The then-35,000 US troops on the ground aren’t going to stop an nK blitz. We might have lasted a week, if that, in combat. But we were a real security guarantee. It’s one piece of the puzzle, but it’s a foundational, essential piece that allows for every other piece to click into place.

Early ROK was every bit as dysfunctional as early post-Saddam Iraq, or RVN for that matter. Without the security piece we’ve provided to the ROK for her whole life, there’s no modern ROK. When Obama withdrew our security guarantee piece from Iraq, he doomed their future.

We US soldiers are that important. I didn’t know that before I served in Korea.

As occupiers, we influence and advise, provide security and economic aid, but that’s not a euphemism for imposing an inflexible template. They’re not our puppets, contrary to leftist propaganda.

There’s a lot more self-determination. For better and worse, they’re our partners, self-interested. Our influence is strong at birth, of course, but we ease back as the occupied nation grows stronger, and if they reconfigure our initial work, that’s their call.

Europeans chose the EU route because of the death blows of WW1, WW2, and then the Cold War, not because the US guaranteed European security.

They’ve gone a step further by nakedly blaming terrorist-committed atrocities on the US, thus doubly incentivizing the terrorists with the ground effect of their terror plus the PR profit in the West of having their destruction blamed on the US.

That ocean won’t save you.

Europe will never be free because its people do not wish to be free. So much worse for the Iraqis.

AND completely ignoring his responsibilities as Commander in Chief, President of the United States, and “Leader of the Free World”????

What is he, like 13 years old? THREE?

Yes, our moronic, profoundly ignorant fellow “citizens” voted for him because he was good-looking, on the young side, had a great voice and delivery, and was a black dude (so cool); just like an American Idol contestant. And he as just as much heft. Hell, less.

Part of the article Neo linked said this, well down the page:

Marauding ISIS militia beheading their way to Baghdad: How jihadist group so extreme even al-Qaeda has distanced itself threatens to take Iraq three years after America left

The Islamist militia ISIS is so ruthless and extreme that even al-Qaeda has cut ties and distances itself from them.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Isis), used to be part of the international terror network, but was cast out in February this year in light of its violent behaviour towards rival jihadist groups.

It is famed – and feared – for spreading hardline Islamic law to the areas it subdues. Transgressors are sentenced to death and swiftly executed in public, their bodies left to decay in the streets.

This treatment has even been doled out against other jihadist leaders, who have been assassinated in a brutal struggle over strategy in the Middle East. Young jihadists are increasingly drawn to Isis over less extreme groups – particularly in the light of their rapid military progress through Iraq.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655977/ISIS-militants-march-Baghdad-trademark-bullet-head-gets-way-control-north.html#ixzz34aKeXPlO
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