That anyone would have thought them even possibly responsive to outreach in the first place is a good indication of how disastrously the Obama Administration and the State Department establishment have wrongly evaluated the Islamic State. They have no idea what they’re dealing with, and cling to the old Cold War paradigms that have no place in the present global situation. They think they can bribe these people over to their side or control them with a mixture of carrots and sticks. They will continue to think this no matter how impervious the Islamic State remains to such appeals.
There needs to be a massive change in the political culture in Washington, and a thorough sweeping-out of these outmoded ways of thinking that are leading the U.S. again and again into disastrous foreign policy errors. But such change is not on the horizon.
“Video purportedly shows beheading of U.S. hostage Steven J. Sotloff,” Chicago Tribune, September 2, 2014:
…After Islamic State’s beheading of journalist James Foley, President Barack Obama’s administration is making little headway in efforts to secure the release of other Americans held by the insurgent group in Syria, officials said.
Washington has contacted about two dozen countries for help in freeing the three, but no foreign government appears to have influence over or even significant contact with IS, which has declared an Islamic caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
“What we’ve found is that ISIS isn’t responsive” to outreach, said a senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity and using an alternate acronym for the group.
Another administration official said Washington was working with other Western countries whose citizens are being held hostage, and with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and others in the region thought by the United States to possibly have influence with the groups Al-Nusrah and IS….
tpellow says
“Islamic State accused of ‘ethnic cleansing on a historic scale.’
Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/middle-east/islamic-state/60225/islamic-state-accused-of-ethnic-cleansing-on-a-historic-scale#ixzz3CCZaSo2n
Angemon says
Understatement of the century? And we’re only in 2014…
Emilie Green says
Com’n, is this for real? The WH sought to initiate some outreach with ISIS?
You know, having Bishop McManus on your advisory panel might not be the most useful idea.
No Fear says
Was Mohammed open to outreach as he made Arabia judenrein?
richard sherman says
Where is Harry Truman when you need him? Just turn ISIS and Al Qaeda and HAMAS and Hezbollah and CAIR and the MSA into parking lots…
The world will be safer and smell better too..
miriam rove says
well said.m
Edward says
Yep, Harry (“the buck stops here”) Truman guy!
Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything. – Harry S. Truman
Salah says
” The world will be safer and smell better too..”
Smell better?
Muslims used to mix Muhammad’s sweat with perfumes and cover their faces with his snot.
That’s probably why the world is smelling better and better by the day!!! (sarc/off)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/11/glory-of-muhammad.html
duh_swami says
The savage will take, your money, your wife and daughter, and your food as an appeasement, and kill you last or at least later, as your reward. The wages paid by a savage are always death…When you reach out to a savage, you might end up with a bloody stump…
Bezelel says
Iran released hostages as soon as Reagan was elected. Coincidence ?
gerard says
“What we’ve found is that ISIS isn’t responsive” to outreach,
So what are you going to DO?!
Jaladhi says
Beg again and bow again – maybe that will work!! Ha, ha,..
DVult says
Outreach with B52s might be effective.
Jaladhi says
This administration is clueless when it comes to dealing with Muslims and Islam. Is it not amazing that all bowing to Saudi raiders, it still didn’t help to save any American life which was this administrations expectation!!
Clueless and spineless dhimmis!!
Anon says
Obama, Pretender In Chief.
“Ahhhh, just send some of our old-stock 500lb truck-buster bombs over there…”
gravenimage says
Obama Administration official: Islamic State “isn’t responsive” to outreach
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There’s very little that is funny having to do with the horrific hell of the Islamic State, but I did laugh out loud over this headline.
Wellington says
Me too, gravenimage. What a buffoon of an administration the Obama Administration is. Worst in US history I submit. Easily so.
gravenimage says
True enough, Wellington. I think the egregious Jimmy Carter has finally lost the “title”.
RKM says
The picture too. Obama looking all pouty.
Perfect picture to accompany the headline.
boakai ngombu says
it may be intended to be that way, what with the MSM hardly giving any credit to numerous observations like yours, Wellington.
found the following link to be interesting, especially a link within the first graf regarding the wonderful Marxists, et al, who drink in UTOPIA down at the Game Changing Saloon, where the intended free are fair and healthy, after an economic collapse and other events :
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7848&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fpmdtn+%28FrontPage+Magazine+%C2%BB+Discover+the+Networks%29
joeb says
I don’t know how many of you are aware of economist Martin Armstrong, who is known for his cyclical forecasting. He has been saying for years that the war cycles start rising in ’14, and won’t abate until ’20. He also forecast Russia would begin to act militarily in its adjacent countries a year before Ukraine kicked off.
Ukraine, the middle east, civil unrest are all of a piece – global war rising. We are lined up for massive change economically and politically, until 2032, according to his work.
EYESOPEN says
“What we’ve found is that ISIS isn’t responsive” to outreach, said a senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity and using an alternate acronym for the group.
As my late sister would have said: “No shit Sherlock. You’re just finding this out?”
Marit says
Surpriced – with a muslim president ? Anyone at home over there ?