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Raymond Ibrahim: Does Obama Need ‘Time’ to Defeat or Forget ISIS?

Oct 10, 2014 1:15 pm By Raymond Ibrahim

Image: U.S. President Obama walks to speak about the Affordable Care Act at the White House in Washington[Via FrontPage Magazine]

During U.S. President Obama’s televised speech on his strategies to defeat the Islamic State, the president said, “Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL” (a reference to the Islamic State, or “IS).

Now, why is that?

First, we know by “cancer” he is not referring to Islamic ideology—since he does not acknowledge that Islam has anything to do with violence and even banned knowledge of Islamic ideology from being studied by law enforcement and national security communities.

Were he referring to Islamic ideology, the need for “time” would of course be legitimate, to say the least.

No, the cancer he is referring to is the very real, tangible, and temporal Islamic State, which exists in time and space.

But this prompts the following question: Why did it take the United States military three weeks to overthrow the very real and tangible regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 whereas “it will take time”—years, according to most military analysts—for the U.S. to defeat the Islamic State?

This question becomes more urgent when one considers that the Iraq conquered by the U.S. in less than a month had an actual government and longstanding military and was better organized and consolidated—certainly in comparison to the Islamic State, often described as a “ragtag team of terrorists” that seems to have appeared out of nowhere.

The reason it will take years is because Obama refuses to strike the Islamic State decisively and effectively, specifically by sending in U.S. ground forces—the very forces that were responsible for keeping the Islamic jihadis at bay; the forces he withdrew leading to the rise of the Islamic State; and the forces that he refuses to utilize again, even though they are necessary to decisively crush the “caliphate.”

Obama’s “it will take time” assertion prompts the following prediction: U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State targets will continue to be just enough to pacify those calling for action against the caliphate (“we’re doing what we can”).  The official narrative will be that the Islamic State is gradually being weakened, that victory is a matter of time (remember, “It will take time”).

In the meantime, the Islamic State will slowly begin to fade away from the headlines.  After all and unreported in any Western media, soon after pictures and videos of the decapitations of Americans went viral prompting much media attention followed by international shock and outrage, the “caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, called for an immediate stop to the videotaping and internet dissemination of such beheadings and other Sharia punishments.

He called on both official channels affiliated with the Islamic State as well as unofficial sympathizers and allies on social media to cease posting such pictures and/or video-clips, adding that IS “would follow any violation of this resolution seriously.”… Keep reading

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    Here is one possible reason my ancient brain came up with — as to why “it will take years” to defeat ISIS : Obama does not want Dem candidates to lose the Muslim vote in our next presidential election . . . and I AM a Democrat — who of course despises the taquiyya-tossing coward currently sitting in the White House.

    • Nicu says

      Oct 11, 2014 at 7:49 am

      http://youtu.be/tCAffMSWSzY

      • jihad3tracker says

        Oct 11, 2014 at 12:02 pm

        Thanks for posting this vid, Nicu, which is astonishing evidence from Obama’s own mouth about his true feelings regarding Islam.

        I URGE EVERYONE TO WATCH IT — AND PASS THE LINK ALONG TO THEIR ELECTED REPS, FAMILY / FRIENDS.

        Several times previously I posted a the same content, but titled differently. Note the according to the “viewed” count, more than 11 MILLION hits occurred.

    • Shane says

      Oct 11, 2014 at 10:39 am

      Obama has no intention of defeating ISIS, because he will not send American combat troops against ISIS. He was told that it would take American troops to destroy ISIS and he still went with this phony air war against ISIS that will fail. The air war is just a political move to protect Obama from criticism of doing nothing while Americans are being beheaded.

    • Ralph says

      Oct 11, 2014 at 3:15 pm

      STUPID IS Still Stupid..

      “Shia and Sunni Islam – what are the differences?”

      Answer:The main difference between Sunnis and Shias lies in their interpretation of the rightful succession of leadership after the death of the prophet Muhammad. The declaration of faith to which all Muslims assent is this: There is no God but Allah, whose prophet is Muhammad. However, the Shiites add an extra phrase at the end: and Ali is the friend of God. Because the Shiites passionately attest to Ali being the successor to Muhammad, much feuding and division have been caused in the world of Islam, not unlike the feuding between Protestants and Roman Catholics in Europe during the Reformation. However, the schism that sets up the major sects of Islam is not due to doctrinal issues, as between Protestants and Catholics, but is grounded in the identity of the “true successor” to Muhammad.

      Among the close disciples of Muhammad was Ali, his son-in-law, who was most familiar with his teachings. However, when Muhammad died in A.D. 632, the followers bypassed Ali, whom the Shiites claim as the rightful successor to Muhammad. Instead, a cousin of Muhammad’s third successor, Uthman (A.D. 644-656), called Mu’awiya Umayyad, declared himself caliph. When he died in A.D. 680, his son Yazid usurped the caliphate instead of Ali’s youngest son, Hussein. The feud between rightful successors or caliphs was fought at the battle of Karbala. Hussein was slain, but his sole son, Ali, survived and continued the line of succession. Yazid, however, gave rise to the Ummayad line of succession, from which modern-day Sunnism arose.

      As for their beliefs, both Sunni and Shia Muslims agree on the five pillars of Islam. While the Sunnites honor Ali, they do not venerate their imams as having the gift of divine intercession. Sunnites conduct community prayers and believe they can have a direct relationship with God. Of the two, Shiite Muslims have a burning desire to engage in martyrdom and believe that suffering is a means of spiritual cleansing. They dwell on the martyrdoms of Ali and Hussein, especially over the ten-day period of Ashura. Also noteworthy is the veneration that Shiites give to the imams, believing they are endowed with infallibility in their interpretation of the Qur’an. In many ways, this mirrors the way the pope is venerated in Rome.

      In terms of actual practice, the Sunni Muslims pray five times a day: thefajr, thezohr, theasar, themaghriband finally theisha(“darkness”). Shia Muslims only pray three times—morning, lunchtime and sunset. Another important difference between the two sects is that Shia Muslims permit fixed-term temporary marriage, known asmuttah.Muttahwas originally permitted at the time of the Prophet and is now being promoted in Iran by an unlikely alliance of conservative clerics and feminists, the latter group seeking to downplay the obsession with female virginity which is prevalent in both forms of Islam, pointing out that only one of the Prophet’s thirteen wives was a virgin when he married her.

      Iran is overwhelmingly Shia – 89 percent. Shia Muslims also form a majority of the population of Yemen, Azerbaijan, Bahrain and 60 percent of the population of Iraq. There are also sizeable Shia communities along the east coast of Saudi Arabia and in Lebanon. The well-known guerrilla organization Hezbollah, which forced the Israelis out of southern Lebanon in 2000, is Shia. Worldwide, Shias constitute 10 to 15 percent of the overall Muslim population, but they make up the majority of the radical, violent element of Islam.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    ISIS is a cancer alright — it is a cancer eating away at the massive lie and deception that the Obama administration wants to enforce with regards to the truth about Islam.

    As ISIS will inevitably take out Bahgdad and the ridiculous, insane, moronic, impossibly expensive US “embassy” there will come under seige, ISIS will continue to be headline news no matter what Obama wishes. Sure, the mainstream media wants desperately to return to fluff and nonsense as that’s easy to stomach. Having to report on news that destroys their cherished fantasies about Islam which they worked so hard to maintain and snowblind the public with is a very bitter pill to keep swallowing. but ISIS isn’t going away. By the end of the Obama regime it will have murdered and expanded far more than it has now — the siren call of its pure Islam shrieks to all the most devout of the death cult of the moon god around the world.

  3. John C. Barile says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    The Caliphate has a brain, a business agenda, a sepent’s wiles, and patient cunning.

    Kudos to you, Raymond Ibrahim, for penetrating the nebulous cloud of events and showing us the probable course of events during the remainder of our Appeaser/Vacillitator-in Chief’s term in office.

  4. Transmaster says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    The Republicans have hit on a theme that is resonating in the Western US. “Obama has made the world a cold, dark, and dangerous place” It has nuked Senator Udall of Colorado. The democrats don’t have an answer to this and Udall has been an Obama ass kisser from the beginning so his disastrous mistakes in domestic and foreign policy are sticking to Udall like the tar and turpentine doll in the 1881 Uncle Remus Book ‘s second story the “Tar-Baby”. “it’s sticking to him like a Tar-Baby”. The more Br’er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby the more entangled he becomes. That is what is happening to Democrats like Senator Udall today Obama is like the Tar-Baby in the Uncle Remus book the more they fight to separate themselves from the Sultan of Stupid the more they become entangled. I absolutely love it.

    • John C. Barile says

      Oct 10, 2014 at 3:25 pm

      Hey, that’s good news. It couldn’t have happened to a better guy in a better place. I hope Mark Udall is soon history, followed in due course by Dear Leader himself.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Barack never forgets. However he does disregard, especially until the next election. Best to keep the con game afloat as long a possible. But I’m sure he’ll have everything in his memoirs, a sizable dump packaged in excuses and pointed fingers. This is a guy who published two autobiographies before he turned 40. Suffice it to say he holds himself in high regard.

  6. Custos Custodum says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    Obama SUPPORT Islamic State and wants to help Islamic State take over ALL OF SYRIA AND IRAQ.

    As late as JUNE THIS YEAR, Obama asked for $500 million in support for “vetted” Syrian opposition groups (and probably much more in secret funds). Notwithstanding the charade of “vetting”, these groups function as simple fronts for Islamic State.

    Obama and his co-conspirators (Cameron and Clegg in the UK) deliberately ignore the obvious choice of allying with Syria against Islamic State. (In World War II, the West had no qualms about allying with the murderous tyrant Stalin against Stalin’s erstwhile ally Hitler.)

    Assad’s Syria is the only COUNTRY with a serious military capability in the immediate region. Moreover, Assad does not send terrorists into Western countries. If this fight is about protecting the West, there is NO EXCUSE for not allying with the Assad regime.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Oct 10, 2014 at 7:59 pm

      CORRECTION: Should be: Obama *and McCain* SUPPORT Islamic State …

  7. Kepha says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    Bad choices all around in Syria and Iraq. The so-called “moderate” Free Syrian Army is the bunch that sold Foley to IS, yet the US now wants to back them!

    Perhaps we see a poetic justice in the making. The O administration is engaging in the same kind of piecemeal dithering that ultimately led the US into the Viet Nam War; opposition to which was the thing on which the young Hillary Rodham cut her political teeth. She stands poised to inherit a growing quagmire in Syria and Iraq made so more by treacherous and unreliable “allies” rather than any analogue North Viet Nam’s limitless rear in Mao’s China. It will probably destroy her just as Viet Nam destroyed Lyndon Johnson–that is, unless Mrs. Clinton does America a true service by going home to bake cookies and be a grandmother to Chelsea’s daughter.

  8. khalid says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    long live isis
    america wait isis is coming soon hahahaha

    • John C. Barile says

      Oct 11, 2014 at 3:35 pm

      ISIS will burn in Hell. No glee for you when you join them there.

  9. Salah says

    Oct 11, 2014 at 12:27 am

    “The reason it will take years is because Obama refuses to strike the Islamic State decisively and effectively,…”

    And why is that?
    Hint: the Muslim Brotherhood “advisors” in the W.H. You know, the ones who lost Egypt!!!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

  10. GP says

    Oct 11, 2014 at 11:37 am

    Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and squandering untold American blood and treasure, that is the Obama legacy. Now who is the true JV team?

  11. lebel says

    Oct 11, 2014 at 2:38 pm

    ” the “caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, called for an immediate stop to the videotaping and internet dissemination of such beheadings and other Sharia punishments.”

    why don’t you provide a source for this?

  12. TJFreedomjihad says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 5:32 am

    Everything the islamist in chief, or muslim in chief has done yet, of a suspect or criminal nature (which is everything he’s done) or had his crooked or evil regime associated with, like all the instructions to purge reference to islam in training about the enemy, among many other activities too numerous, has needed the time to get another crisis going, to erase the memory of his moron supporters, you know, the low information voters?

    So it’s just a matter of time for the next crisis to be manufactured by this muslim brotherhood supporter (think Egyptian fiasco), who uses taqiyya to say islam is not Islamic state-ha. Just like the lie that islam is so peaceful, at least supposedly to muslims-not! Or the excuse that it is a religion, taqiyya, not-ha! I mean, no matter how absurd, “sky butt” rituals, no womyns allowed, bag ’em and tag ’em, numerous other rules, make a religion, don’t they? Mehh.

    And a prophet without prophecy, but he does kill, in grotesque ways, as a means of believing and earning favors from the unimaginable so called god, and rape, and indescribable other crimes committed, and of course share the booty, all ordered and ordained by this so called “god” of the so called prophet? Hmmmm. And except oil, heroin, and such, exactly what have they produced? And all the great scientific discoveries, the Nobel prizes, hmmmmm. Yeah, see this article and the author at the bottom, Hisham Melhem of Al Arabia, wrote in Politico “The Barbarians within our Gates–Arab civilization has collapsed………” http://www.dennisprager.com/arab-world-produces/

    Maybe it’s the illegals, maybe it’s ebola, whatever to be the crisis! And yes, all he needs to do is drag his feet, or get a bunch of soldiers infected, while helping to fight the virus in Africa, for him to get ebola to do a tap dance in America. It’ll be something, either way. Maybe something not yet even we know of-yet. They got a ton of options they listed for haul out when needed.

    The good news is that there seems to be some people getting their brave big boy pants on, like Leon Panetta, so far, and some military guys, in service, even.

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