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  1. Did you notice that, as the the young man with the hat absorbed the awful news that the journalists had been beheaded, he whipped off his hat? I was struck by this old-fashioned gesture in one so young, and by the way it revealed his genuine shock and dismay at the enormity of the news. An LIV indeed, but I’m guessing, a decent kid at heart.

  2. Obama’s lack of reaction is even worse considering that our special forces could have rescued Foley, but Obama delayed for over a month before giving the OK. So he’s one of the few people on the planet who could have prevented it. I can’t decide if there’s something wrong with him psychologically, or if it’s that he sympathizes with the terrorists and not the Americans. At this point, I’m hoping he’s a psychopath. Scary times indeed.

  3. Obama is a leftist. Leftists are moral relativists and thus don’t think in “those sorts of traditional moral terms”. What am I missing?

  4. Mrs Whatsit:

    Yes, I think that’s part of the reason I highlighted him. He seemed genuinely and intensely shocked and disturbed by the news, and you are right to point out that almost instinctive and traditional gesture of respect.

  5. so far two girls from austria have disappeared believed to be “tricked” into fighting for isis. two others were stopped and a couple of american young feminists were also heading to fight.

    ISIS has a female bregade
    and they are doing what happened duriing the spanish fights against fascism that russia had used people for.

    The Internet army of ISIS, after being chased from social networks like Facebook and Twitter, is now recruiting and fundraising on the Russian social network VKontakte

    given that one of the founders is a russian (who i named previously in a thread which gets moved on to new items the minute things get to close for comfort)

    the “no longer soviet soviets” have now claimed to have shut them down from their social media. but that remains to be seen over time. they shut down two, but apparat found over 100…

    VKontakte, the world’s largest Russian-language social network, is also popular in many post-Soviet states. Many ISIS recruits allegedly come from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, though Russians join ISIS as well, according to Apparat. Indeed, the news site lists “a graduate of an education department in Ufa, a young father from Derbent, and a Kazan university student” among the profiles it found on VKontakte.

    Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the Caliph of ISIS
    his full name is: Ibrahim ibn Awwad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad al-Badri al-Samarrai

    aka
    Amir al-Mu’minin Caliph Ibrahim

    On 4 October 2011, the US State Department listed al-Baghdadi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and announced a reward of up to US$10 million for information leading to his capture or death

    he replaced Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi who served isis from October 14, 2006 — 18 April 2010 when it was shown that he was arrested by Iraq – and is now dead.

    still think its new?

    The Islamic State of Iraq, also known as al-Qaeda in Iraq, was the Iraqi division of al-Qaeda. Al-Baghdadi was announced as leader of the ISI on 16 May 2010, following the death of his predecessor Abu Omar al-Baghdadi

    On 29 June 2014, ISIS announced the establishment of a caliphate. Al-Baghdadi was named its caliph, to be known as Caliph Ibrahim, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was renamed the Islamic State (IS)

    ISIS is the successor to Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn–later commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)–formed by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi in 1999, which took part in the Iraqi insurgency against American-led forces and their Iraqi allies following the 2003 invasion of Iraq

    and who works with, assists, supplies and generally is the larger state that controls IRAQ?

    their allies are
    Boko Haram
    Jemaah Islamiya
    al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
    al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
    Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters

    Iraq recieves equipment, explosives, training, personell and even protection in the world courts from Russia… who blocks the un security council since bush was president.

    and funny funny
    After months of speculation, the U.S. State Department announced in July that it had found Russia to be in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty over Moscow’s testing of a new medium-range, ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM). – September 2014

    Russia successfully tested its new submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental missile, a 12-metre- long weapon that can deliver a nuclear strike with up to 100 times the force of the atomic blast that devastated Hiroshima in 1945

    and then the news reported that it still has not dismantled its missiles going back decades, which were subtracted from totals.

    In October and November of this year, the naval fleet will carry out two more launches with two rocket cruisers equipped with ballistic missiles

    russia has a very long history with people in the middle east and i can list a lot of them, and their code names.

    but, go on… none of this matters as it doesnt exist in any of your, or other peoples dialogue as to things going on… after all, cargo cults only look at the surface, and deny the substance that is underneath.

    A Bulava missile weighs 36.8 tonnes, can travel 8,000 km (5,000 miles) and hold six to 10 nuclear warheads

    do note that every time we have had a liberal president in office we have had major conflicts (many lasting into the offices of others) – i below listing major and minor conflicts

    Wilson, WWI, Russian Civil War,
    FDR, WWII
    Truman/Eisenhower, Korea, (First Indochina War)
    Kennedy, Vietnam
    LBJ, Vietnam, Operation Power Pack
    Nixon. Vietnam
    Ford, Vietnam (after watergate)
    Reagan, First Gulf of Sidra incident,Invasion of Grenada,Invasion of Panama
    George H. W. Bush, Persian Gulf War, Operation Restore Hope (somalia)
    Clinton, Bosnian War, Operation Uphold Democracy, Kosovo War
    George W. Bush, War in Afghanistan, Iraq War
    Obama, 2011 military intervention in Libya, 2014 American intervention in Iraq

    in many ways all of these were world war conflicts
    except that sometime after vietnam, we started referring to the groups of countries as coalitions, not world.

    what changed was american technological superiority after vietnam…

    the worst conflicts the US has been in started when the US miltary was heavily reduced… that would be WWI, russian civil war (war weary), WWII (also war weary), korea, vietnam.

    we have not had a major conflict with huge casualties since then, but also, we have not cut our military down from that period until obama

  6. I’ve already discussed how flat and emotionless President Obama was when he gave his speech on ISIS Wednesday evening.

    If Valerie Jarrett had been able to convince the POTUS that the Koch brothers were funding ISIS, and that Ted Cruz was writing the ISIS press releases, you may rest assured that the POTUS could have mustered up beaucoup passion against ISIS.

  7. I also was struck, and touched, by the way that kid took off his (ridiculous) hat!
    Watching Obama speak, I wondered how long his eyes have had that weird, flat, baleful look. It really alarms me.

  8. Obama is a textbook sociopath. Brings to mind a few other characters in the past, who were less restrained.
    I the know, I’m a broken record.

  9. Barry can’t put evil and Muslim in the same speech, let alone the same paragraph.

    He’s standing with Muslims — just as he said during his original 2008 campaign.

  10. Creating a virtually open border, refusing to deport illegal aliens, and purposeful actions that are aimed at making the ME more filled with hatred and chaos are not motivated by a desire to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign or domestic. Something smells, and what we are smelling is the evil, putrid rot in the head of the fish.

  11. On the one hand I wouldn’t put too much into this clip because I wouldn’t, if stopped on the street, be able to remember the journalists names either.

    But, on the other hand, I wouldn’t be able to name the nude celebs either. But most of them could! That is sad.

    And, yes, I was rather surprised to see the hat removal gesture and the genuine shock on that one man’s face.

  12. The young man who was so shocked by the news of the beheadings reminded me of a young second cousin of mine. He’s a person who is very open with his emotions. You can usually tell where he stands just by his body language. If a person values life, news of such barbarism cannot help but cut deep.

    What really burns me up is that Obama is only taking action because of public outrage. To him those poor journalists were collateral damage. He must be steaming that the deaths of just two people could cause such a reaction and force him to do something he is loathe to do. Since he is loathe to get involved, unless we are lucky, the outlook is not good. I pray for our military. They’re the ones who are going to pay the price for half measures taken for political reasons.

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