tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post5121705114348497035..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: What Will Defeat ISISNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-23221313216390716472015-02-18T22:14:57.092-06:002015-02-18T22:14:57.092-06:00"I know it's hard, but it's time to a..."I know it's hard, but it's time to acknowledge that there isn't a brilliant zen master in the White House ushering humanity into a new Age of Aquarius." <br /><br />I'm pretty sick of this BS attitude from no-it-alls who probably never had to made a decision affecting the very lives of people in their life. No one that I know considers President Obama a "zen master". Maybe it's the voice in your own head that believes that. However, President Obama is brilliant - I'll give you that. But we are not currently in the age of Aquarius and I don't believe it's suppose to be anytime soon.. And I for one am grateful that we have a brilliant and thoughtful leader in this nation. I've lived under too many idiots, thank you very much.Sabreen60https://www.blogger.com/profile/09301118183860033504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-55912838521559479412015-02-17T15:02:33.996-06:002015-02-17T15:02:33.996-06:00ISIS and/or groups like it will wither once the Mu...ISIS and/or groups like it will wither once the Muslim world gets tired of seeing their people killed by their own people. But they tend to think in centuries, not years.T2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-52218825717628418582015-02-17T14:44:05.810-06:002015-02-17T14:44:05.810-06:00"when was the last time we can remember some ...<i>"when was the last time we can remember some military other than ours taking up he defense of their own people? Hearing Egypt respond to the slaughter of Egyptian Copts was life altering on a thousand different levels. See Jordan step forward against ISIS was astonishing. And on and on and on. THAT is foreign policy as we have demanded on the peace side."</i><br /><br />Um, what the what now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-53671148429309915622015-02-17T13:02:28.411-06:002015-02-17T13:02:28.411-06:00Anonymous @12:43
I'm not sure who you are arg...Anonymous @12:43<br /><br />I'm not sure who you are arguing with here. Nowhere did Churchlady or I suggest that Egypt or Jordan were thriving democracies nor did we suggest that its possible to negotiate with ISIS. After all, this whole post was based on how we DEFEAT ISIS. <br /><br />You seem to be arguing with either things you've read elsewhere or ghosts in your own head. Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-29350884897664107502015-02-17T12:43:25.149-06:002015-02-17T12:43:25.149-06:00This is zealotry. The Egypt that "responded&q...This is zealotry. The Egypt that "responded" is an ultranationalist military dictatorship that has allowed ISIS to already infiltrate its borders and slaughter its own soldiers by the dozens and lives in existential fear of a new wave of terror like the Gamaa Islamiya. It cares no more for protecting Christians than the Muslim Brotherhood government it overthrew. The Jordan that "steps forward" is a rotted-out monarchy presiding over a country that is literally half filled with refugee camps. These aren't the allies of the future. They barely function as allies of the present.<br /><br />I know it's hard, but it's time to acknowledge that there isn't a brilliant zen master in the White House ushering humanity into a new Age of Aquarius. We are not at the end of history. We're in a long war fought across many nations. And while the <i>global</i> threat from these isolationist and revanchist forces is small in comparison to communism and fascism, they are also hardly in their dying throes. These aren't people who want to one day attend human rights conferences in New York and Geneva and Paris or get invited to state dinners or meetings at the White House or in Dubai. They don't want their daughters to grow up to be doctors or their wives to work outside the home. They reject globalism and secularism thoroughly and believe in an endtimes of Islamic destiny that has been stolen from them by savages from afar. They think <i>we're</i> the slavers who would ruin them all. You can't negotiate with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-13148003923992797672015-02-17T12:10:44.996-06:002015-02-17T12:10:44.996-06:00The whole question of when/how an enemy/opponent i...The whole question of when/how an enemy/opponent is "defeated" is an interesting one to apply in a lot of situations.Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-46823366909162018672015-02-17T11:59:48.907-06:002015-02-17T11:59:48.907-06:00The same thought would apply to the slave states d...The same thought would apply to the slave states domestically.sherifffruitflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14676077292357887614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-52445837895004079752015-02-17T11:54:51.187-06:002015-02-17T11:54:51.187-06:00It fascinates me that this measured and careful re...It fascinates me that this measured and careful response that respects local national and people's sovereignty is greeted by the MSM as 'a chaotic foreign policy'. Oh? What is more chaotic than intervening everywhere, usually on the side of RW dictators, and bombing people back to the stone age (in the manner supported by RW militarist Gen. Curtis LeMay)? Watching the news I've thought time and again - when was the last time we can remember some military other than ours taking up he defense of their own people? Hearing Egypt respond to the slaughter of Egyptian Copts was life altering on a thousand different levels. See Jordan step forward against ISIS was astonishing. And on and on and on. THAT is foreign policy as we have demanded on the peace side. Failure of both emos and the media to see it (I don't expect the uber warmongers on the Right to want it) is the weakness of our people, NOT of this president. May his successor have this vision, and long may it prevail.Churchlady320noreply@blogger.com