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Obama serves up cliches and falsehoods as his anti-ISIS strategy

Sep 29, 2015 10:26 pm By Robert Spencer

Over at PamelaGeller.com I dissected Obama’s grand strategy for defeating the Islamic State.

Platitudes, self-righteousness, distortions, tortured reasoning, self-promotion — that’s right, it’s another major speech by Barack Obama. Comments interspersed below.

Obama UN ISIS

“Remarks by President Obama at the Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism,” United Nations Headquarters, September 29, 2015:

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, heads of state and government. Last year, here at the United Nations, I called on the world to unite against the evil that is ISIL, or Daesh, and to eradicate the scourge of violent extremism. And I challenged countries to return to the General Assembly this year with concrete steps that we can take together.

He challenged countries? It was up to them to come up with concrete steps to beat ISIS? This from a man who confessed in August 2014 that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to beat the Islamic State, and said in June 2015 that the U.S. had no “complete strategy” for training Iraqis to fight the Islamic State. Apparently he was waiting for other countries to draw up a strategy for him. Putin obliged him, but he rejected that one.

I want to thank everyone who is here today, including my fellow leaders, for answering this call. We are joined by representatives from more than 100 nations, more than 20 multilateral institutions, some 120 civil society groups from around the world, and partners from the private sector. I believe what we have here today is the emergence of a global movement that is united by the mission of degrading and ultimately destroying ISIL.

He used that language before. Since then, the Islamic State has only grown in strength, while Obama’s Pentagon had to resort to falsifying data to make it look as if Obama’s cosmetic airstrikes were successful.

Together, we’re pursuing a comprehensive strategy that is informed by our success over many years in crippling the al Qaeda core in the tribal regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. And we are harnessing all of our tools — military, intelligence, economic, development and the strength of our communities.

The al Qaeda core in Afghanistan is crippled? But al Qaeda’s ally, the Taliban, just took Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, a major city far from its usual sphere of influence. The Taliban doesn’t seem crippled at all.

Now, I have repeatedly said that our approach will take time. This is not an easy task. We have ISIL taking root in areas that already are suffering from failed governance, in some cases; in some cases, civil war or sectarian strife. And as a consequence of the vacuum that exists in many of these areas, ISIL has been able to dig in. They have shown themselves to be resilient, and they are very effective through social media and have been able to attract adherents not just from the areas in which they operate, but in many of our own countries.

They’re not attracting adherents because they’re effective through social media. That’s just the medium; the message is what attracts adherents. But Obama is bound as a matter of policy to ignore their message, so he has to pretend that the way they package it is what counts. And then he has the audacity to say we must combat their ideology — an ideology he has consistently refused to acknowledge even exists:

There are going to be successes and there are going to be setbacks. This is not a conventional battle. This is a long-term campaign — not only against this particular network, but against its ideology. And so with the few minutes I have, I want to provide a brief overview of where we stand currently.

Our coalition has grown to some 60 nations, including our Arab partners. Together, we welcome three new countries to our coalition — Nigeria, Tunisia and Malaysia. Nearly two dozen nations are in some way contributing to the military campaign, and we salute and are grateful for all the servicemembers from our respective nations who are performing with skill and determination.

Nigeria is the home of Boko Haram, which has allied with the Islamic State. Tunisia has sent a huge number of jihadis to join the Islamic State. It is likely that there are more Nigerians and Tunisians on the side of the Islamic State than will be joining the coalition against it.

In Iraq, ISIL continues to hold Mosul, Fallujah and Ramadi. But Iraqi forces, backed by coalition air power, have liberated towns across Kirkuk province and Tikrit. ISIL has now lost nearly a third of the populated areas in Iraq that it had controlled. Eighteen countries are now helping to train and support Iraqi forces, including Sunni volunteers who want to push ISIL out of their communities. And, Prime Minister Abadi, I want to note the enormous sacrifices being made by Iraqi forces and the Iraqi people in this fight every day.

Obama’s claims about the Islamic State losing territory have already been discredited.

In Syria, which has obviously been a topic of significant discussion during the course of this General Assembly, we have seen support from Turkey that has allowed us to intensify our air campaign there. ISIL has been pushed back from large sections of northeastern Syria, including the key city of Tal Abyad, putting new pressure on its stronghold of Raqqa. And ISIL has been cut off from almost the entire region bordering Turkey, which is a critical step toward stemming the flow of foreign terrorist fighters.

One step forward, two steps back: Turkey is more interested in fighting the Kurds than fighting the Islamic State. Turkish attacks on the Kurds weaken the most effective ground force currently facing the Islamic State. The U.S. has been accused of selling out the Kurds to gain Turkish support against ISIS, and that support has been meager in any case.

Following the special Security Council meeting I chaired last year, more than 20 additional countries have passed or strengthened laws to disrupt the flow of foreign terrorist fighters. We share more information and we are strengthening border controls. We’ve prevented would-be fighters from reaching the battlefield and returning to threaten our countries. But this remains a very difficult challenge, and today we’re going to focus on how we can do more together. In conjunction with this summit, the United States and our partners are also taking new steps to crack down on the illicit finance that ISIL uses to pay its fighters, fund its operations and launch attacks.

How successful has the U.S. been in stopping foreign jihadis from joining ISIS? Now 30,000 foreign jihadis from 100 countries have joined the Islamic State.

Our military and intelligence efforts are not going to succeed alone; they have to be matched by political and economic progress to address the conditions that ISIL has exploited in order to take root. Prime Minister Abadi is taking important steps to build a more inclusive and accountable government, while working to stabilize areas taken back from ISIL. And our nations need to help Prime Minister Abadi in these efforts.

In Syria, as I said yesterday, defeating ISIL requires — I believe — a new leader and an inclusive government that unites the Syrian people in the fight against terrorist groups. This is going to be a complex process. And as I’ve said before, we are prepared to work with all countries, including Russia and Iran, to find a political mechanism in which it is possible to begin a transition process.

Obama’s repeated claims that the Islamic State can only be defeated if Assad is removed is based on the assumption that ISIS is not Islamic, and is just an opposition group to Assad, so that if Assad is gone, the Islamic State will vanish. Putin’s view is more realistic: he knows ISIS is Islamic, and claims to be the caliphate, and has global ambitions. He knows that if Assad falls, the Islamic State will be the main beneficiary.

As ISIL’s tentacles reach into other regions, the United States is increasing our counterterrorism cooperation with partners, like Tunisia. We’re boosting our support to Nigeria and its neighbors as they push back against Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to ISIL. And we’re creating a new clearinghouse to better coordinate the world’s support for countries’ counterterrorism programs so that our efforts are as effective as possible.

Ultimately, however, it is not going to be enough to defeat ISIL in the battlefield. We have to prevent it from radicalizing, recruiting and inspiring others to violence in the first place. And this means defeating their ideology. Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas — a more attractive and compelling vision. Building on our White House summit earlier this year, and summits around the world since then, we’re moving ahead, together, in several areas.

Ideologies are not defeated by guns? Really? Yet if National Socialism and Shinto militarism were not defeated by guns, what defeated them? Any serious and thoroughgoing effort to refute them as ideologies came after the guns had stopped firing, during the occupation of Germany and Japan, when the Allies worked to turn the hearts of the citizenry away from the beliefs in which they had been relentlessly indoctrinated for years.

What’s more, the United States is not trying to defeat the Islamic State, or the global jihad in general, with “a more attractive and more compelling vision.” Instead, we supervised the installations of constitutions that enshrined Sharia as the highest law of the land in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Imposing Sharia is the goal of all jihad groups, including the Islamic State. The United States has never stood in Iraq or Afghanistan, or anywhere else, for the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, equality of rights for women, etc. — all of which are denied in Sharia. In other words, we didn’t counter their ideas with a more attractive and compelling vision. We didn’t counter them at all, and still aren’t doing so, because to do so would be considered “Islamophobic.”

How is Obama going to counter their ideology when he won’t even acknowledge what it is? Three years ago, his administration banned the truth about Islam and jihad from counterterror training, bowing to the demands of Muslim, Arab and Pakistani organizations that wrote to John Brennan claiming that FBI and other agents were being imbued with “Islamophobia.” Since then, Obama, Brennan, John Kerry, Joe Biden and other Administration spokesmen have steadfastly refused to acknowledge that Islamic jihad has anything to do with Islam whatsoever – thus foreclosing upon any possibility that the United States will confront the jihad ideology in any serious or effective manner.

We’re stepping up our efforts to discredit ISIL’s propaganda, especially online. The UAE’s new messaging hub — the Sawab Center — is exposing ISIL for what it is, which is a band of terrorists that kills innocent Muslim men, women and children. We’re working to lift up the voices of Muslim scholars, clerics and others — including ISIL defectors — who courageously stand up to ISIL and its warped interpretations of Islam.

It’s interesting that he says that the Islamic State’s killing innocent Muslims is what will discredit them. He seems to know that their killing of non-Muslims won’t sway Muslims to oppose them. And as for the clerics and scholars who are exposing the Islamic State’s “warped interpretation of Islam,” does he mean these, who endorsed the concept of the caliphate, as well as jihad and dhimmitude in the course of condemning the Islamic State?

We recognize that we have to confront the economic grievances that exist in some of the areas that ISIL seeks to exploit. Poverty does not cause terrorism. But as we’ve seen across the Middle East and North Africa, when people, especially young people, are impoverished and hopeless and feel humiliated by injustice and corruption, that can fuel resentments that terrorists exploit. Which is why sustainable development — creating opportunity and dignity, particularly for youth — is part of countering violent extremism.

We recognize we also have to address the political grievances that ISIL exploits. I’ve said this before — when human rights are denied and citizens have no opportunity to redress their grievances peacefully, it feeds terrorist propaganda that justifies violence. Likewise, when political opponents are treated like terrorists and thrown in jail, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. So the real path to lasting stability and progress is not less democracy; I believe it is more democracy in terms of free speech, and freedom of religion, rule of law, strong civil societies. All that has to play a part in countering violent extremism.

So he is going to address their poverty, even while admitting that poverty doesn’t cause terrorism, and their political grievances. In doing these things, he thinks their religious vision will fade away. This is, of course, because he refuses to face it for what it is, has no idea of its strength, and won’t believe it has anything to do with Islam. The result will be that he will shower money on Muslim countries and make political concessions to them, and then, to his dismay, will find that the jihad continues.

And finally, we recognize that our best partners in protecting vulnerable people from succumbing to violent extremist ideologies are the communities themselves — families, friends, neighbors, clerics, faith leaders who love and care for these young people.

Remember that violent extremism is not unique to any one faith, so no one should be profiled or targeted simply because of their faith. Yet we have to recognize that ISIL is targeting Muslim communities around the world, especially individuals who may be disillusioned or confused or wrestling with their identities.

“No one should be profiled or targeted simply because of their faith.” If he was referring to attacks on innocent Muslims, of course, no innocent Muslims should suffer any harm or injustice. He seemed to be saying more than that. The idea that it is wrong to fight Islamic jihad by paying attention to Muslim communities more than Baptist or Jewish or Hindu or Amish communities is absurd. Islamic jihad is committed by Muslims. Obama won’t even call it Islamic jihad or admit that it is a specifically Muslim phenomenon, and insofar as he diverts any resources to tracking “right-wing extremism” on the basis of bogus studies, he makes us all less safe.

But as far as Obama is concerned, that the Islamic State is “targeting Muslim communities” makes Muslims the victims, deserving of special favors:

And in all our countries, we have to continue to build true partnerships with Muslim communities, based on trust and cooperation, so that they can help protect their loved ones from becoming radicalized. This cannot just be the work of government. It is up to all of us. We have to commit ourselves to build diverse, tolerant, inclusive societies that reject anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigotry that creates the divisions, the fear and the resentments upon which extremists can prey.

Islamic advocacy groups have worked for years to stigmatize all resistance to jihad terror as “bigotry.” Now the President of the United States is echoing their talking points.

…Like terrorists and tyrants throughout history, ISIL will eventually lose because it has nothing to offer but suffering and death. And when you look at the reports of those who are laboring under their control, it is a stark and brutal life that does not appeal to people over the long term. So we will ultimately prevail because we are guided by a stronger, better vision: a commitment to the security, opportunity and dignity of every human being. But it will require diligence, focus and sustained effort by all of us. And I am grateful that all of you who are already participating are committed to this work.

In reality, he never dares articulate that “stronger, better vision” in anything but platitudes. To do so in any realistic manner would require he discuss Islam and Sharia. And he will never do that.

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  1. celticwarriorcanada says

    Sep 29, 2015 at 11:11 pm

    No strategy, people in intelligence deliberately misleading the public, millions of dollars wasted training so called moderates who are actually the enemy , and we thought Watergate was a scandal ! Nixon’s crimes seem almost juvenile in comparison to the Foreign Policy Catastrophes negotiated by the Three Stooges Obama, Hilary, and Kerry and of course the other Walking Brain Deads who share the same Neo Marxist Multicultural Fantasy . Well at least Ahmed the Clock Dissector will remember the glory days of the Obama administration ! While the thousands of murdered Christian Martyrs whose blood is on his hands, will be comforted and rewarded by the Holy Trinity for all Eternity !

  2. Joseph says

    Sep 29, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    NOW Obama owes me four keyboards.
    Boy do I hate puking

    • celticwarriorcanada says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 12:10 am

      I feel your discomfort and nausea Joseph ! What I do is I don’t Eat for at least a few hours after having been exposed to the stinky lying sewage which gushes out of Obama’s mouth . Because unlike Ahmed bro , neither you or I will be rewarded with free electronics and keyboards . Unless of course we contribute something to the spread of islam like perhaps a bomb hoax to get peoples guards down !

      • Questionman says

        Sep 30, 2015 at 4:11 pm

        This is just another case of me beinng right! Obama haters are the biggest racists, bigots, and black-hating extremists in American History. Anyone who hates Barack Obama is a racist. Bar none.

        Obama isn’t a “traitor” and he’s not a Muslim.

        You, Karen, have been misinformed. Anyone that can be taken in by hoaxes is mentally weak.

        • Angemon says

          Sep 30, 2015 at 6:40 pm

          Questionman posted:

          “You, Karen, have been misinformed. Anyone that can be taken in by hoaxes is mentally weak.”

          Like the hoax that anyone who doesn’t like Obama is a racist?

        • Joseph says

          Sep 30, 2015 at 9:54 pm

          @ Questionman
          You sound like a pad footed panther which is on the same level as a jackbooted Nazi.
          You are the racist because you look for it where there is none.
          We go by his track record NOT the amount of melanin in his skin.

        • Joseph says

          Sep 30, 2015 at 9:58 pm

          @ Questionman
          #1- You are the only one talking about race.
          #2-There is only one race of human beings on this planet.
          #3-Obama did not win the 2nd election, he stole it.
          #4-Your arguments hold water like a sieve
          #5-Grow up and stop blaming others for your lack of initiative, go to school and get a job.
          #6-You don’t like people who are conservative because they want to give a *hand up* not a hand out.
          #7-I know of no Christian that will ever side with Muslims or say the sweetest sound is the call to morning prayer.

  3. somehistory says

    Sep 29, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    The *sustainable* goals of the u.n. coupled with his bag of lies is a cover to enable islam to grow and conquer more and more land and peoples. Empty lies.
    And telling everyone else to embrace his lies and not recognize the threat this beast is to all of the rest of us. Sickening.
    (Revelation 13)

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 29, 2015 at 11:21 pm

    I have mentioned previously here on JW that my political loyalty is lifelong senior citizen (age 67)
    Democratic. My late aunt served with distinction in the FDR and HST administrations, through December 7th 1941 on through the Truman transition into Dwight Eisenhower’s 1952 term.

    HUSSEIN OBAMA will be remembered as somewhere between seditionist and treasonous, growing up with Islam as his beloved early family faith, excelling in Qur’an studies, hearing Marxist invective and hatred of Western culture — WHAT WE HAVE NOW IS THE OBVIOUS RESULT.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 5:03 am

      FDR was a liar who violated the law in the worst ways, and bequeathed the country the mess it in now. He set the table. Many point to Woodrow Wilson, but Woody only designed the menu, and then later the awful Franklin stood on his shoulders and divided by two somewhere between Uncle Joe’s communism and the Framers’ freedom. The old divide-by-two trick pretends that Keith Joseph wasn’t right. This time around, the division is somewhere between Sharia and the Framers’ freedom, so thereby we will inch closer to living by the lowlife ideals of Islam. At least this time the dirty deed is to be done by an Indonesian and not an American. But that’s only cold comfort.

  5. somehistory says

    Sep 29, 2015 at 11:22 pm

    And he shows just how little Christianity means to him….*moslems* are the ones dying by the hands of moslesm. No mention of those Christians who are slaughtered, no mention of the fact he is refusing to allow any in as refugees from war and slaughter. Sympathy only for his moslem brothers and sisters.

    Proverbs 29:2

  6. Matthieu Baudin says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 12:35 am

    “…How is Obama going to counter their ideology when he won’t even acknowledge what it is?…”

    And furthermore, it’s an ideology that condones, encourages and deals in slavery. One would have imagined that an American President would take a stand against slavery to distance his nation even further from its own past involvement in the slave trade and slave plantation labour. The totalitarian megaliths of the 20th Century, the National Socialists and the Stalinist Regime eagerly reverted to the use of slave labour and ground individual rights into the dust; ISIS and their allies are carrying slavery into the 21st Century. If the Obama administration has values that they hold higher than freedom from slavery then I’d like to know what they are.

  7. Jeremiah says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 1:06 am

    We are all wasting time Ladies and Gentlemen.

    Ben Carson has declared war on sharia ten years after they declared war on us. Obama is just allowing the invasion to run its course. Obama is just waiting for the Taliban to take over Pakistan and he is waiting for Iran to nuke Israel.

    Let’s support Ben Carson and pray that there will be an election.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 4:57 am

      Let’s support Ben Carson and pray that there will be an election.

      That’s right. Everybody assumes that Barack Hussein will vacate the Oval Office as required by law. Now, I’m not saying he won’t, but I *am* saying that he has overthrown the law over a hundred times now (over 50 times for Obamacare alone) by issuing legislation on camera and over the email, so where is it written that he can’t stay in office. Yes, I know, it is written in a law, but so what? He can count on fellow Harvard Man Chief “Justice” John Roberts to tear off another 23 page ruling about how that law was not written as intended. We’ve devolved from black letter law to gray letter law, and if he wants to, our black president could work that angle, although he’s not really black, he’s more like gray, cuz his mom the Internet porn model was a white girl.

      • Hannah says

        Sep 30, 2015 at 8:09 am

        APF,
        I think there are a growing number of Americans who think the elections won’t happen. My scenario is that martial law will be declared by obamba, as a result of the chaos he is fomenting with his wackadoodle leadership. He is causing division, despite his platitudes, has increased racism in the nation, has run up a huge deficit, and created an alarming tension by giving Iran free rein to develop their nukes. There is talk of civil strife, Texas seceding and weirder ideas going around. The chaos could erupt quite quickly, so martial law can happen very soon.

        • Wellington says

          Sep 30, 2015 at 1:16 pm

          The Presidential election will happen, Hannah. Obama is abysmal and he has indeed flouted the law many times but he is in no position to cancel the Presidential election of 2016. This will not happen.

          As for declaring martial law, this won’t happen for sundry reasons, not the least of them being that Obama is the least respected Commander-in-Chief by his own military in all of American history. I’ve seen estimates that as high as 85% of the American military do not respect him and merely salute the office, not the man.

          The real worry is if a Democrat wins the Presidency or some RINO. America and the world at large need a real President with the right ideas and who will say what he means and mean what he says, rather like Truman or Reagan.

          Obama, who has done so much damage to America, will be put out to pasture come January 2017. He will be placed on a lot of corporate boards, be given huge speaking fees and will live a life of luxury to the end of his days that he so clearly does not deserve. But such is the way of things at times.

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Sep 30, 2015 at 4:38 pm

          You could be right, it is definitely conceivable. The biggest law in our nation’s history, Obamacare, has been relegislated by him over 50 times. Before him, presidents (including Dubya) always went to Congress to work out a deal when a change had to be made.

          But my estimate is that at his point Barack Hussein figures his job is done, less the major things he plans to do over the next year or so. Also, there is a very good chance, almost a likelihood, that if he declared martial law and announced he was staying on, the Pentagon would move on the White House and take him into custody, even killing Secret Service agents in the process, albeit the agents themselves might decide to wave the soldiers or marines through.

  8. David says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 1:20 am

    This ISIS situation is really a camouflage and smokescreen for the world’s economic failures. America is broke and so is Europe and so to distract people’s attention away from their failures they play the ISIS card. A group of about 25,000 thugs disposed of very easily by any one state but noooooo it s gonna take a look good time.

    Just another distraction away from the real bread and butter issues and the world’s collapsing economies.

    Climate change and terrorism take up all the news headlines when it’s the deplorable economic management that is the real issue here and affects 100’s of millions of people unlike petty ISIS which affects just a few thousand people.

    People want better quality lives, free Medicare and free universal education, a job, so what’s taking care of ISIS going to do for them??

    Issues like the millions of children dying each year from preventable diseases are the shame of humanity and where our resources have to go not in wasting them on defeating a bunch of thugs.

    Of course governments don’t want the real issues to come to the forefront so continually play the ISIS card to try and cover up their bad economic management.

    When you can’t find employment or your pension gets cut or the bank refuses to give you your money then ISIS is the last thing on your mind.

    • Linde Barrera says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 1:33 am

      To David- You make several valid points. And I think it would not be unreasonable for any elected office holder in the US to have a minimum of 12 credits in economics. But getting back to ISIS, those demonic monsters are real, and somebody needs to hit them where it hurts. I mean thousands of innocent Christians, Yazidis, Alawites, and other Muslims deemed not to be “Islamic enough” have been tortured and murdered by ISIS and it’s hard for me to equate money or personal finance with their lives.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Sep 30, 2015 at 4:54 pm

        This ISIS situation is really a camouflage and smokescreen for the world’s economic failures. America is broke and so is Europe…

        This too could be right. We are broke. If our debts to China were called, it will be difficult to continue refloating the notes given that the Fed’s balance sheet is stretched way beyond all precedent which, combined with the fact that the zero interest rate regimen run for nearly 7 yrs now must end and doing that will massively bloat the budget to make payments on the now $19 trillion debt. We are truly in uncharted waters now.

        The Democratic Party has demonstrated that they now operate strictly by election and no longer by national interest. Proof of this is that they (and the RINOs) fully intend to make citizens an estimated 60 million aboriginals from south of the border. This will immediately bloat transfer payments and thereby the annual budget, plus the current plan is to grandfather them onto Social Security, Medicare and other unconstitutional high cost programs. 20 million of them, the ones who are here now, will go onto the dole immediately, and the remaining 40 million as they trickle in under the family reunification laws.

        All this mess will be *very* tough to manage. Should there be a global recession, it will quickly become literally uncontrollable, at which time street action will start.

  9. Don McKellar says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 1:32 am

    An absolutely devastating, fact and logic based analysis by Robert Spencer!

    There is pretty much only one thing that Obama really got right in the whole damn thing! It’s when he said: “As ISIL’s (translation to current reality: THE ISLAMIC STATE) tentacles reach into other regions…” He got the tentacles part right. This is YOUR baby octopus, Obama. YOU created it with YOUR policies, YOUR actions, YOUR inaction. You ARE the father! And the Saudis are the not so proud mom. No wonder you refuse to deal with it honestly and with full force — you’re the dad!

  10. G179 says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 2:10 am

    Not a single word about the genocide of non-muslims. Not a single idea about protecting them. Nothing at all.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 4:59 pm

      Priorities. Don’t wanna agitate the Evangelicals going into an election cycle. Nobody listens to Mike Huckabee, and mostly that’s a good thing, so at this point the population is almost totally unaware of our preferential “Moslems only” fake refugee program. Secretary War Coward sez the plan is for 100,000 fresh Moslems, which by the magical arithmetic of DC is code for 300,000 of them. Economic growth.

  11. Westman says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 am

    “And this means defeating their ideology” Good luck with that since it’s in the Quran and Sunnah. Does anyone believe that Sunni Islam will discard portions of Al-Azhar University-verified Islam Ideology?

    You’re feeling sleepy….sleepy….sleepy…

  12. Donovan Nuera says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 2:23 am

    “We still have the remaining 4 [out of the original 59] vetted rebel fighters under our command and currently are deployed close to ISIL….their codenames are ‘Muhammad’, ‘Sidney’, ‘Jugdish’ , and ‘Clayton;.” said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Douglas C. Niedermeyer

  13. Benedict says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 4:28 am

    I am trying to figure out how this muslim president has managed to fool an entire nation and that too for a second term. My belief is that he has no intention of engaging the ISL. All his plans for the middle east has come to nought.

  14. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 4:49 am

    And this means defeating their ideology. Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas — a more attractive and compelling vision.

    This is crazy professor talk. What are these misdirected Mujahidin to do, go to a college course that teaches that ideologies aren’t defeated by guns? The professors are all pro-Moslem, so we’d only pay their tuition and housing to send them to college and see them get fired up about what victims of colonialism and white oppression they are and see them murder on or near the campus. Maybe they should go to that Kroc funded program over at Notre Dame. Or USC would work. Both have solid football programs, although it is sad that the Trojans are better.

    What we see here is the culmination of an incomplete ideology, globo-socialism (aka Liberalism or Progressivism) dropping its anchor baby in the form of an incomplete strategy. If you can’t complete a thought process on Moslem activists, you can’t complete a strategy on how to defeat them so as to protect your people, who after all are Infidels and therefore themselves stained with guilt in causing all this. Look at the photo, and you see behind the fake professor fake American fake black guy a known war coward; John’s got his back. Yeah.

  15. Sam says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 5:07 am

    We are doomed. Might as well get used to hearing ALLAHU AKBAR in Bloomington. Indiana.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 5:31 am

      We are doomed. Might as well get used to hearing ALLAHU AKBAR in Bloomington. Indiana.

      Say, that’s where I went to college. A few years ago I drove east on Kirkwood up to the gates, hoping to have a sentimental moment of remembrance going back to the site of my glory daze of youth. It was early, so there weren’t many people out. What I saw were two Moslimas clad in body bags and hijabs. And, I swear to God, both were reading Holy Ko-Rans. Gates of Hell, I thought. I could tell what they were reading cuz they always have those tiny little copies of the Murder Manual.

      Oh I had a moment of remembrance, alright, I remembered all those scumbag Pakis who were there when I was. What a miserable group of people they were. Shifting my brother’s ‘Vette down into second gear, I took a left on Indiana Avenue, went up to 10th and hung another left, then got on 37 and headed back to Indy in disgust.

      Life is full of nasty surprises and disappointments. But some are unnecessary, they are self-imposed.

      • Westman says

        Sep 30, 2015 at 10:23 am

        Self imposed, indeed.

        Give a cave man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a cave man Democracy, plop him into yout society, and he’ll find a way to turn it into a weapon that makes you bring him fish, every day, while he creates more fish consumers.

        You’ve got a flair for expression, Farmer. Perhaps some day you’ll write some short stories and maybe even a novel. Someone is going to write the first story exploring the mind, and not just actions, of a Jihadist, à la manière de Salman Rushdie, that will make the apologists howl. There’s more than code coming out of that keyboard.

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Sep 30, 2015 at 10:52 am

          It’s interesting that you bring up Rushdie. I read The Satanic Verses in hardcover just after it was published. He *did* go into the mind of the Haji, deep. A brilliant writer, he caught a lotta things I didn’t understand at the time cuz I hadn’t yet read the Holy Ko-Ran. For that reason I was surprised when the Ayatollah put the death fatwa out on him. I also hadn’t yet read the Hah-Deaths, so I didn’t know that the Holy Prophet Mohammed had put out two successful contract murders on critics of Islam in Afak and Marwan.

          Were somebody to write the book you propose, that person must be willing to accept going into hiding. This ain’t England, so there will be no free security protection for him.

  16. jayell says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 8:29 am

    “Obama serves up cliches and falsehoods as his anti-ISIS strategy”….So he’s getting this lot published and he’s going for the Booker Prize?

  17. Angemon says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 9:46 am

    I’ve said this before — when human rights are denied and citizens have no opportunity to redress their grievances peacefully, it feeds terrorist propaganda that justifies violence. Likewise, when political opponents are treated like terrorists and thrown in jail, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. So the real path to lasting stability and progress is not less democracy; I believe it is more democracy in terms of free speech, and freedom of religion, rule of law, strong civil societies.

    Bloody hell – what a f***ing hypocrite…

  18. Carl Jackson says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 11:17 am

    Listenig & reading US “news” over the last few days, it’s clear the gov’t and media see Russia as enemy #1 in the mid-east. A FOX newsreader said this morning that Russia had lauched airstrikes against “opposition forces” (not IS / ISIS). She said “children are being dragged out of bombed buildings”,

    US congressman Adam Kinzinger said Russia may be bombing “doctors, lawyers (?!), and pharmacists” to “prop up the Assad regiem”.

    FOX military analyst Ralph Peters (ex Colonel) said Russia would not hesitate to shoot down an American aircraft and that Russia wants to cause “mischief” in the mideast.

  19. mortimer says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 11:21 am

    Bromide = a TRITE and unoriginal idea or remark, typically intended to soothe or placate. A compound of bromine used as a sedative. Example: “feel-good bromides create the illusion of problem solving”.

    Obama’s example of a bromide: “STRONGER, BETTER VISION”.

    Conclusion: what is that vision? There is a Golden Rule in Judeo-Christian ethics, but none in Islam.

    Islam divides the world into friends and enemies on the basis of religious belief ALONE! Koran 48.29 – “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the disbelievers (kufaar); Compassionate amongst themselves.”

    When a Muslim shows kindness to a dirty KAFIR, he does so merely out of good manners, rather than by religious conviction.

  20. mortimer says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 11:25 am

    Obama is covering up the JOINT Turkish-Saudi plan to confiscate Syria from the Shi’ite alliance in Syria in order to build a GAS PIPELINE through Syria and Turkey into EUROPE!

    The Saudis are paying the US to fight their war.

  21. Rikki H says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 11:26 am

    So then President Obama recognizes that “ISIS are targeting muslim communities around the world”. So why only muslims, why does he suppose they’re not tryingto recruit mMormons or whatever. Even if he refuses to admit that the problem is fundamentally islamic, then he must at least be able to see that muslims are the most likely to join ISIS and kill/die for them. In this case why doesn’t he elaborate, or at least use his own power of deduction to understand exactly WHY muslims are the ones being recruited. The blatantly obvious truth is because it is an ISLAMIC. movement dedicated to the ultimate cause of all muslims as dictated by the Koran, an imbecile could work this out. But if he believes they are in some way being recruited exploitatively, surely he still has to recognize a pattern of behavior and a mindset exclusive only to muslims, otherwise why not try abd recruit a few Sikhs living through hard times and see if it inflames them into joining an Islamic cause to implement a global “islamic state”.
    Obama is surely not this naive and stupid. I guess we have to wait until all his half arsed attempts to combat this situation fail miserably for the penny to drop, that is if we haven’t already lost everything at that point.

  22. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 12:59 pm

    The real strategy of the actual way to defeat the cruel, vicious and murderous fiends who compose the brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS is by the use of many very strong powers of military might. Hit them hard. Hit them long and don’t let up on hitting them. Take them down and don’t let them rise up again. As Thomas Jefferson had so well stated “With every barbarous people…force is law.”

    • Rikki H says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 1:45 pm

      Absolutely spot on! And the British and US armies of WW2 would have dealt with the problem in exactly this manner. Even the Democrats didn’t take any crap from the Nazis and Japs back then. And our armies may still have the skill, bravery, fortitude to crush them. But we’re living in an age of political correctness, and unfortunately, the enemy isn’t comprised of mostly white people, so the last thing our wussy governments want to do is look like shadows of Hitler. (the irony being that the Islamic ideology is far closer to nazism, and in practice worse and more dangerous)

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 4:42 pm

      Agreed Walter and Rikki.

      Our grandfathers had not the time, money, or resources to sort out the bad Germans and Japanese from the good ones. So they killed them all, and let God sort them out.

      We bombed every German and Japanese man, woman, and child in sight until they surrendered unconditionally. Take a look at Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) photos of Dresden, Cologne, Hamburg, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc to see how our grandfathers would deal with the Muslims today.

      Do we think we’re intelletually and morally superior to our grandfathers? To the contrary, they were obviously intellectually and morally superior to us. They identifed the problem and destroyed it. And what could be more moral than bequeathing to our children a World free from an evil Islamic ideology bent on exterminating them?

      If the politicians would STFU, and let our military handle this problem, we could extinguish Islam inside of two weeks.

      Seriously, I’m a 20 year military officer and 6 year war vet. If you elect me POTUS, I will eliminate Islam from Earth inside of two weeks, guaranteed.

      We need an alliance with China, UK, France, India, and Russia (yes Russia). We all recognize Islam as the existential threat that it is.

      Incremental random Strategic Area Bombing of Muslim sovereignties is the ONLY answer. Incremental, to give the Muslims time to rethink their allegiance to Satan (Allah/Mo). And random, such that no one knows where to hide, making every Muslim on the planet believe he and his family could be next.

      The objective: Worldwide criminalization of Islam, making the practice or promotion of it a capital offense, including within our own countries.

      Remember, Islam is Sedition and Conspiracy to Murder. These are already crimes. We must simply recognize this, then enforce the law.

      Every Muslim sovereignty agreeing to criminalize Islam is removed from the target list. Those who resist will watch us convert their cities into glass one at a time. Then when their ability to resist is eliminated, the Allies will divide up their territory, install our own governments, and exploit all of their natural resources for ourselves.

      If today’s Muslim governments wish to keep their power, territory, and resources (oil), all they must do is make Islam a capital offense.

      I see no other solution. If we don’t do this, Muslims will own our grandchildren one day.

      With the Iranians just months away from nuclear tipped ICBMs, the time to act is now. The Apocalypse is at our doorstep. This will not end peacefully, and lots of people will die. Our enemy wishes to kill all of us. My plan will kill only enough of them to force the surrender of Islam, and not one soul more.

      Once our grandfathers extinguished Japanese Imperialism and Nazism, the World could then live in peace with the Japanese and Germans. We can do the same with Islam. The problem is not the Muslims. The problem is Islam.

      • Rikki H says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 3:18 am

        Great post Daniel. The Koran is every bit as poisonous as Mein Kamf and should be banned just like it. The difference being of course that it purports to be a “religion” and uses this as camouflage. Imagineif Hitler had had1.5billion followers…

      • Rikki H says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 4:10 am

        I dream of a day when our armies start cleaning up Islamic ghettos in the west, before moving on to crushing Saudi Arabia and Iran (laughably the Saudisare classed as allies, the better for our governments to kiss aasfor oil wwhen it’s actually the Islamic huv and the one country we SHOULD have invaded).
        Sadly I don’t see ab alliance with. China or Russia any time soon, as we’re ti busy trying to outdo each other for world title of greatest super power. Gell we can’t even agree on the basics like who the enemy is, or what their cause is, much less team up to flatten them. Within groups like EDL we have people who are educated to the threat of islan, and then people who make things worse by turning it into a riw about multiculturalism, making moronic comments. This doesn’t help, and makes people who would otherwise listen believe that the group is inherently racist) I’m not saying multiculturalism works, just that it’s not the problem we need to focus on. Islam is… If people with similar leanings can’t agree how can western countries with communist latrines like Russia. It’s a global problem for us all to deal with

        • Rikki H says

          Oct 1, 2015 at 4:39 am

          Please forgive the number of mistakes in that last post, I typed on my phone while walking its a miracle there aren’t more. I meant to type (Saudi Arabia)… is actually the Islamic *hub*. Other corrections I’m hoping you’ll see around lol

        • Daniel Triplett says

          Oct 1, 2015 at 10:34 pm

          @Rikki H

          Great post Friend. Wow, you really put it into perspective imagining the Third Reich at 1.5 Billion strong. And I consider Islam even more dangerous than Naziism, because the Nazis were led by one man, and had no deity. So to kill that one man would effectively end the Nazis. But it’s impossible to kill a fictional deity who is the Muslim leader. That was the evil genius of Mohammad. He placed a fictional, unkillable deity in charge, with him as the only guy who gets to communicate with it, thus ensuring perpetuity.

          Most of the Nazi top leadership, including Rommel, knew two weeks after D-Day that the war was lost, and knew the best thing for Germany would be a negotiated armistice. Only the bravest of them dare suggest this to Hitler, and they were immediately reprimanded for cowardice. But the Germans loved their children, and didn’t want to them to die. Constrast that with the Muslims who take pride in murdering their children to advance Allah’s cause: People who think the greatest thing in the World is to fight and die for a fictional god. A very different ballgame here, and we’re facing 1.5 Billion of them.

          I agree that getting Russia to ditch Iran, and be our partners instead is a very difficult task, perhaps impossible. However, perhaps part of the problem is Putin’s’ utter disdain for Obama. Maybe if we had a POTUS who has Putin’s respect, we could make some progress. I could see Gorbachev and Reagan coming to terms with Islam, and joining together to destroy it. Although Putin will likely be in charge for another 15 years or so, I’m hoping we elect a POTUS whom Putin can respect and cooperate.

          But we need a different strategy with Russia for sure. WWIII is in progress. Obama just doesn’t have us involved. But our involvement is coming, and when we get into it, whose side do we want Putin to take? Obviously, we need him on ours. Whatever it takes. We can’t win if we don’t.

          P.S. I want to make a correction to my post above, and I apologize to our Israeli friends for my oversight. Of course, I would include Israel in our Alliance. They are at the top of the list, and right at the forefront. As a matter of fact, I believe Bibi should be the Supreme Allied Commander. He is a brave war veteran with great wisdom, and knows how to command a military. And he has much larger balls than our fool of a CINC, including most of our Generals.

          When the dust settles, we should put him in charge, making him Governor of any territory gained from resisting Muslim governments.

  23. Ian Hill says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    The more I see and hear from Barack Hussein Obama the more he reminds of the film “Omen. He is without doubt doing all he can to slow down the fight against the many evil gangs of murderers running amok in the Middle East and Africa. They go by many names but all read the same war book. My guess is that Obama reads it too.

  24. Wellington says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 1:20 pm

    I think Obama may actually believe the BS he spouts.

    • Rikki H says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 2:38 pm

      He is just niave and stupid then? Are you guys in America 100% sure he isn’t a muslim?

      • Wellington says

        Sep 30, 2015 at 3:22 pm

        Even if he is a Muslim this by itself wouldn’t negate his believing the BS he puts forth on a regular basis.

        Respecting the specific matter of his being a Muslim, he might just be gooey enough in his muddled thinking that he believes one can be both a Christian and a Muslim. You know, all that crap about all religions essentially being the same which Leftthink allows you to think.

        • Rikki H says

          Oct 1, 2015 at 4:27 am

          Yeah, I read stories about African Americans converting to islam which is unfortunate abd frustrating that they seem obvious to how black people where treated as the muhajin swarmed into Africa, Obama seems like just the kind of gullible fool to do this as a public act of “religious and racial solidarity”

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 5:05 pm

      I think Obama may actually believe the BS he spouts.

      I think he does believe it. Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, nor the sharpest knife in the drawer, he grew up in the lap of luxury, and as an adolescent was mentored by one of America’s leading communists. Remember that this is a guy that published not one but *two* autobiographies before he turned 40. He’s had people kissing his ass his whole life. He believes it.

      • Wellington says

        Sep 30, 2015 at 5:43 pm

        And don’t forget, APF, he thinks “Austrian” is a language. Yeah, Google this one. It’s a corker.

  25. Daniel Triplett says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    Thanks for posting the link to this outstanding article Uncle Vladdi. This is a must-read for all non-Muslims.

    I’ve been saying exactly the same thing for years. I’m happy to see others think as I do.

    This man knows the problem, and he knows the only solution. Amen. Now all we must do is get everyone else on board with the solution, and quickly.

    Please, everyone click on the link and read the article. It’s a quick 5 minute read, with indispensible information.

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