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Senators McCain and Graham: Islamic State direct threat to U.S.

Aug 10, 2014 2:39 pm By Robert Spencer

These two clowns are suddenly waking up to the jihad threat? John McCain, who posed for photos with jihad terrorists in Syria and insisted they were moderates? John McCain and Lindsay Graham, who heaped scorn and abuse upon Michele Bachmann for suggesting that there might be Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the U.S. government?

It is good for anyone to be sounding the alarm about the reality of the Islamic State’s repeated desire to murder Americans, but these two Senators are part of the problem. They are part of the Washington establishment that has ignored, denied, downplayed and misdiagnosed the jihad threat for years. McCain’s energetic cheerleading for the Syrian “rebels” is part of the reason why the Islamic State exists and is prospering.

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  1. Salah says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    “Islamic State direct threat to U.S.”

    I would rather say:
    Islamic State direct threat to ISLAM!!!

    Islamic State wants to destroy the Kaaba!
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/01/isis-destroy-kaaba-mecca_n_5547635.html

    Islamic State wants to rewrite the Qur’an!
    http://www.pakistantv.tv/2014/08/04/daesh-isis-want-rewrite-quran/#sthash.BLw7GHT6.dpbs

    Actually, Islam is Islam’s worst enemy.

    • Beagle says

      Aug 10, 2014 at 2:56 pm

      Their “goal” is not merely the “destruction of the USA.” The IS wants to convert the entire world to Islam, make sharia the only law, exterminate all the Islamic takfir (especially the rafidah Shia), and ensure that only Salafi Sunni Muslims rule anywhere in the world. That entails destroying the USA, but not only that.

    • TH says

      Aug 10, 2014 at 3:11 pm

      It is absurd to state that people who are following exactly what the Qu´ran says could be wanting to rewrite it. Maybe the Qu´ran is not clear enough about killing kafur, hating Jews, beating women and other such savagery.

      • Jovial Joe says

        Aug 10, 2014 at 4:01 pm

        If Salah is correct it is the verse ‘you have your religion, I have mine’ that they want to remove. That would make sense given their actions; ditching the ‘peaceful’ Meccan verses that is.

        • Anushirvan says

          Aug 10, 2014 at 4:34 pm

          Makes sense, indeed. ISIS has absolutely no use for any leftover abrogated verses in the Quran. So why not abridge the Quran according to their own behavior ? Why else would they proclaim all other Muslims to be infidels ? They think of themselves as purists.

  2. Liam1304 says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    The Manchurian Candidate #2 speaks!

  3. mike ryan says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    In this day of instant bombardment from media sources from every corner, how many will even remember McCain’s photo-op with the jihadists?

    Like the first mistake we made (going into Iraq in the first place!), we have still learned nothing.

    Assad and Hussein are not looking so bad now.

    I remember a comment from Ma’ariv (Israeli paper) from an Israeli reporter embedded in one of the USMC contingents: “We can not be so sure that the Americans will not come to miss Sadam.”

    At least Sadam and Assad protected loyal minorities in the name of building a greater vision of Syrian or Iraqi national identity.

    Bush unleashed a hornet’s nest that, I’m afraid, will not settle down for a long, long time.

    • Kate says

      Aug 10, 2014 at 5:41 pm

      I don’t believe that it was all Bush’s fault. If you recall, we were attacked on 9/11/2001. Did you forget that? I don’t think Bush had any intention of attacking Iraq until we were cornered and had little other choice. Also, the Islamic religion (and its threat to us) may be slowed down, but it will not stop until people see what lies it entails. Bush may actually have slowed it down for a few years. It’s just too bad that this country did not use the precious time we have had these few past years. The politicians were too busy fighting each other to notice the bigger threat.

    • Wellington says

      Aug 10, 2014 at 9:16 pm

      Bush had to go into Iraq because Saddam Hussein was a megalomaniac out of control, violating one after another of the truce terms which ended the 1991 war (e.g., firing daily on American and British fighter planes in the two no-fly zones) and the only world leader who had WMDs AND had used them and which every major intelligence agency on earth thought he still had. No President of the United States could have afforded to let such a man remain in power. One knows this or should know it.

      Where Bush made his mistake was in assuming democracy could be brought to Iraq (I myself some decade ago thought this was worth a shot—–and I was wrong too). What Bush should have done after eliminating SH and his two psychopathetic sons was to have installed an authoritarian type along the lines of a Mubarak who would have been pro-American or at least neutral.

      Really, the continued line by way too many who should know better that Bush shouldn’t have gone into Iraq at all is simply not defensible. It was WHAT Bush did AFTER he went into Iraq that can be held to be something for which he is culpable.

  4. Myxlplik says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    Well, you Washington idiots. If you are so upset about the establishment of a Caliphate, an Islamic State, they why in the world would you have allowed our country to take marching orders from CAIR, and the Muslim Brotherhood?

    Time to pull your heads out of your asses, damn you idiots.

  5. Tradewinds says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    Back in ’08 or so McCain said, “I admire the Islam. There’s a lot of good things in it.”

    As ignorant as Bush calling Islam the “religion of peace” the week of 9/11.

  6. Daniel Triplett says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    Let’s first do a no-notice nuke strike on Iran’s nuke production facilities and the Pakistani nuke arsenal. This lets them know we’re serious about using our nuke weapons to destroy Islam. Targeting hardware first, but threatening to target population centers later. Give them three days to think about it. Three days was the increment between Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    We must demand Apostasy for all Muslims on Earth. We all know Islam must end, and must be criminalized Worldwide.

    In my opinion, we must force Apostasy, but also allow Judaism, Hinuduism, and Bhuddism as options for them in addition to Christianity. Of course, I would prefer the entire planet to believe in my God Jesus Christ, but offering the other options would get buy-in and an alliance with all the other people on Earth who practice those other religions.

    In my military mind, a military solution is the only option here. Incremental random Strategic Area Bombing is the answer. Incremental, to minimize damage and enemy civilian casualties, giving them time re-think their loyalties to Satan’s Islam. And random, such that no one knows where to hide, convincing every Muslim on the planet they and their loved ones could be next.

    We could end Islam inside of two weeks with this plan, at a cost of $7B or less, without the loss of one Allied soldier’s life. Although we could never eliminate every Muslim on the planet, we could at least force every government on Earth to criminalize Islam, excluding Muslims from society, forcing the die-hard Satan worshippers to live in caves like animals

    I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating. This is how our grandfathers felt about targeting enemy civilians. The same grandfathers who successfully destroyed the Japanese and Nazi campaigns:

    ” the aim of the Combined Bomber Offensive…should be unambiguously stated [as] the destruction of German cities, the killing of German workers, and the disruption of civilised life throughout Germany.
    … the destruction of houses, public utilities, transport and lives, the creation of a refugee problem on an unprecedented scale, and the breakdown of morale both at home and at the battle fronts by fear of extended and intensified bombing, are accepted and intended aims of our bombing policy. They are not by-products of attempts to hit factories. ”

    –Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris. He was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command during the latter half of the Second World War.

    He also said this:

    ” The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind. ”

    The rules of war are agreed by mutual consent, meaning the enemy determines the context of engagement by the tactics he elects to use. If they expect us to treat their POWs humanely, then they’d better treat ours humanely. If they bomb our civilian population centers, then we’ll bomb their population centers.

    Make no mistake, Iran and the Muslims are not assembling nukes just to threaten the rest of us. They’re building nukes to exterminate the rest of us, just as the book they worship directs them to do. The Muslims are forming the context of the rules of war here, not us. To pretend they’re in the same sphere of morals as we is just stupid, and that kind of thinking will get us all killed. We can’t hamstring ourselves with Rules of Engagement, placing ourselves on some sort of “higher ground,” when our enemy will clearly do whatever it takes to win. They play by no rules. They would use the Geneva Convention to wipe their ass, except they choose not to use any paper at all, using their hands instead.

    If FDR and Churchill had been bound by the belief that bombing enemy cities and killing hundreds of thousands of enemy civilians was “genocide,” this would have freed up Tojo and Hitler to wage their own genocides on the World with impunity and success.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Aug 10, 2014 at 4:51 pm

      Hello D. T. —

      Serious praise is hereby lobbed in your direction for a superb post.

      I will happily pay for airfare to Washington and a cab ride to the White House, where the strategy can be presented …

      B.H.O. should be well rested after his golf games and tanning time on Martha’s vineyard, simultaneously with the slaughter of Yazidi Christians.

      That guy has a real resonance deficit in the Basic Human Empathy cubbyhole.

      • Daniel Triplett says

        Aug 10, 2014 at 7:49 pm

        I appreciate your words jihad3tracker. That’s nice to hear.

        I live 100 miles from the White House, so the plane ticket won’t be necessary, but that was fraternally generous of you to offer.

        It’s the 11th hour in this Biblical conflict, so perhaps I should drive to DC more frequently now to get things stirred up; more than typing on this keyboard alone. We have an important election in just three more months too. Perhaps I should organize a pro-Israel/anti-Islam demonstration. We need a counter-demo to those 10,000 Satanists dancing in front of the White House last week.

        I’ll definitely pay BHO a visit, but even if they let me in the White House, I’m not sure how well received I would be with my plan in the Oval Office. I’m convinced he’s a Muslim at heart, with a calculated agenda offering refuge for Islam’s flourish, versus destroying Islam and defending the World from Eternal darkness. But I’ll give it a try my Friend, and let you know how it works out.

        I was thinking about articulating this plan in a 15 minute video, then posting it on YouTube, and Emailing it to all 435 Congressmen and 100 Senators. I’ll also Email it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, although they’ve already been taught these strategies in the US Military, as was I. Sadly, many of the 4-Stars these days are political “yes” men, more interested in protecting their pensions than protecting their country.

        Gone are the days of Generals such as MacArthur, getting fired by Truman because he told him what he needed to hear versus what he wanted to hear. Since I’m working now as an airline pilot, having separated from the USAF, they can’t fire me anyway. I’m still and will always be a Major though, so the POTUS can only revoke my Commission, which is a risk I’m willing to take.

        Stay strong Brother, this 1400 year fight is about to get huge.

        • jihad3tracker says

          Aug 10, 2014 at 9:47 pm

          Hello again — Actually doing a brief ( 15 minute ) video ? ? If you have the time — YES, PLEASE.

          I am confident that our readers would put out notice to their elected reps, with a path to the Youtube link.

    • Bezelel says

      Aug 11, 2014 at 10:32 am

      @D.T. Good points, By the “RULES” every rocket fired by Gaza is committing a War crime but it goes unnoticed. Everyone should know or better yet,admit that islam is criminally insane by accepted “norms”.

  7. Myxlplik says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 3:39 pm

    Atmospheric scientists have discovered a new sphere.

    We have the stratosphere, troposphere, mesosphere and the newly discovered microclimate of Washington, the moronosphere.

    We lost this war when you got rid of Stephen Coughlin, and Robert Spencer et al, replacing them with CAIR and and the Muslim Brotherhood as advisors.

  8. eib says

    Aug 10, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    So much for stating the obvious.
    What idiots.

  9. Mark, The Golem says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 2:13 am

    Wasn’t calling you a moron.

    I’d rather forgo that whole ‘Dying For G-d’ part altogether, thank you very much, be it in the tribulation or at the point of a sword during a forced conversion.

    What is at stake here is the future of Civilization, and anyone who wants to see the end of Civilization is a problem, be it Islam, Eschatalogical Christians, Left Wing Anarchist nut jobs or who ever.

    I certainly don’t see the brown and yellow Christians as being worth less than a fat, white Baptist. I also don’t see the lives of several thousand non-Christians who are currently trapped of top of a mountain waiting for death through starvation or at the hands of the Muslim horde to be worth less than his either. But I’m sure John McCain does…

  10. JIMJFOX says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 2:33 am

    As usual even these ‘fundamentalists’ know sweet FA about their koran- “Al-Kafiroon” dates to Mecca so was ABROGATED by Medinan sura surely?

    Then again it’s stupid putting logic before the eyes of these idiots…

    • JIMJFOX says

      Aug 11, 2014 at 2:48 am

      I see later another post points out that deleting the ‘tolerant’ verses removes all doubt about ‘Religion of Peace’.

      That would be excellent- no longer any muslim equivocation; by allah, it is death!!

  11. Prinz Eugen says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 10:57 am

    McLiar posed with these moslem terrorists, demanded the US arm them — what happened Johnny? Make just another major blunder in judgment? It is hard to think straight after Hanoi Hilton torturers do a number on you, You have become
    an arrogant senile ignorant bumpkin — wake up! Get that “danged fence” built you lying maggot!

    ISIS, Hamas, Taliban, etc. — go after their leader, mullah Barak Hussein!

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