By Alan Caruba
"ISIS is not Islamic", said Barack
Obama as he gave yet another vapid speech to say what he will or will not
do next about the threat of Islam. What he said is both idiotic and a lie. ISIS
calls itself the Islamic State.
Obama used the word "war" only once, but ISIS is all about war---an Islamic holy war that has been waged since 632 AD.
The one person neither named, nor blamed is the so-called prophet, Mohammad, yet everything being done by the jihadists today is being done in his name.
Obama used the word "war" only once, but ISIS is all about war---an Islamic holy war that has been waged since 632 AD.
The one person neither named, nor blamed is the so-called prophet, Mohammad, yet everything being done by the jihadists today is being done in his name.
In his memoir, “Dreams from my
Father”, Obama, in the preface to its second edition, wrote: “Nor do I pretend
to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day (9/11) and
that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into
another’s heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder
innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.” And therein is the problem that
he, as President, and we as citizens must address.
Political correctness is so dominant
in the Obama White House that no one in the U.S. government dares say anything
that might be deemed critical of a so-called “religion” that sanctions
beheadings, amputations, stoning, kidnapping hostages, ransoms, polygamy, and
slavery. To anyone deemed an infidel or unbeliever or a Muslim who questions
anything about Islam, death is the only option other than dhimmitude, a
second-class citizenship.
The pure evil of Islam was seen most
recently in the two videos of American hostages being beheaded by the Islamic
State, but despite decades of attacks on U.S. embassies, the taking of U.S.
hostages in Beirut and Tehran, attacks in Bali, Madrid and London, and the 9/11
attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon, Americans
have been slow to realize the intensity and size of the threat that the Middle
Eastern and North African nations represent along with wherever else a large
Muslim population exists.
As the U.S. and threatened Middle
Eastern nations hurtle toward a military confrontation with the Islamic State,
the name it has given to territory it has seized from northern Syria and into
Iraq, a new book, Fault Lines: The
Layman’s Guide to Understanding America’s Role in the Ever-Changing Middle East,
($00.00, Elevate, Boise, Idaho, softcover) provides one of the best, short
histories on U.S. involvement and why, at this point, its influence has reached
a low point.
Liebich writes of the way the U.S.
policy regarding the Middle East changed over the years, particularly in the
wake of World War II and the Cold War that followed as the Soviet Union
challenged us for the implementation of communism worldwide. Dependent on the
flow of oil from the Middle East, much of our strategic interest in the region
was based on exercising our influence, often bringing about the removal of
leaders whom we regarded as a threat to that necessity. After 9/11 that went
into overdrive.
Liebich notes that our concept of
nation-building proved costly, not just in the lives of our troops, but which
included $50 billion in Iraq “and it didn’t work. Before you can build a nation
you have to have a nation and only
the citizens of that nation can decide what kind of a country they want to
have.” The problem the U.S. encountered was that “In the Middle East, people
related much more to the Ummah (the Muslim community) and to their own
tribes.”
The problem that George H.W. Bush and
his son, George W. Bush, encountered was that “The Middle East is a part of the
world where many odd alliances appear. One is never sure who is allied with whom
and whatever one thinks may all change tomorrow.”
Liebich takes note of the “Arab
Awakening” that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq that deposed Saddam Hussein.
It began “with so much promise” followed by “its subsequent descent into chaos,
has drastically changed the geopolitical landscape in the Middle East and North
Africa.”
Liebich says “My definition of a vital
national interest is one that deals with an existential threat to the United
States, and one for which the U.S. is willing to spill its blood and to spend
its treasure in order to accomplish its objectives. By this definition, the U.S.
has no vital national interest in events in the Middle East.” Written prior to
the emergence of the Islamic State, a new existential threat is facing the U.S.
Liebich says our strategic interests
in the Middle East for many years included access to stable supplies of oil at
reasonable prices; support for the state of Israel; preventing adversaries or
potential adversaries from coming to power or achieving influence in the region;
improving life for the people of the region; and preventing terrorist attacks on
U.S. territories and citizens.
“The region has become the
epicenter for terrorist groups, some of which have ambitions for a global
reach.” That alone will require a renewed military involvement by the U.S. as we
are the only nation with the capacity to alter the facts on the ground.
It comes at a time when the U.S. is
close to having developed its oil reserves to a point where the oil of the
Middle East will not determine our policies, but it is that oil which other
nations such as those of Europe depend upon. China and India need it as well so
its protection by and for the West as well as the developing Asian nations
affects our decisions. Even Russia whose economy is dependent on oil and natural
gas has cast its support for Syria along with Iran.
Everything, though, depends on
understanding the true nature and intent of Islam.
Liebich ends his book with a quote
from Winston Churchill who said, “We can always count on the Americans to do the
right thing, after they have exhausted all other
possibilities.”
Right now, the right thing is the
destruction of the Islamic State.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
2 comments:
What an ASS we have in a commie in chief.
Heltau
ISIS follow Islam close to that of Mr Mahamed.
Mr Mahamed personally decapitated 600 people. He wiped out the Jews in Saudi Arabian penisular
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