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State Department: ISIS jihad attacks are signs of US success against ISIS

Jul 5, 2016 4:11 pm By Robert Spencer

When the Islamic State jihadis lose they lose, and when they win, they lose, also — as long as the American people don’t catch on to how they’re being played for fools. The blinkered Blinken, and the Obama administration in general, almost certainly know better. They just hope you don’t.

If Blinken is correct, the U.S. should stop being so successful against the Islamic State, so that they will lay off the jihad attacks.

Tony Blinken

“State Dept.: ‘Indiscriminate’ attacks a measure of success in fight against ISIS,” by David Sherfinski, Washington Times, July 5, 2016:

Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Tuesday said that recent “indiscriminate” terror attacks are actually a measure of success that the U.S. is having in combating the Islamic State terrorist group, saying the attacks are occurring as the group’s territory and resources are being taken away from them.

“What we’re seeing, I think, is ISIS actually lashing out,” Mr. Blinken said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Because against every way we measure this — the territory they control, the number of foreign fighters and fighters overall, the money, the propaganda — they are down against every single measure.”

“And unfortunately, one of the things that they do in response is to lash out with these indiscriminate terrorist attacks — suicide bombers, car bombs, you name it — going back to the more traditional model of terrorism. And it’s horrific,” Mr. Blinken said.

A series of deadly bombings rocked Saudi Arabia and Iraq in the past several days, with the group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, claiming responsibility for a deadly car bombing over the weekend in Baghdad.

The group also claimed responsibility for the recent deadly hostage standoff in Bangladesh, and officials have said the recent attack at Turkey’s Ataturk Airport appears to be tied to ISIS, though it has not claimed responsibility.

“And if you have someone willing to blow themselves up it’s very difficult,” Mr. Blinken said. “But in a strange way, this is a measure of the success we’re having in taking their territory away from them, taking the foreign fighters away, taking the resources away.”…

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  1. Paul N Silas says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    Right?…and having cancer is a sign that I am healthy!

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jul 5, 2016 at 4:50 pm

      Nietszche said what doesn’t kill ya makes you stronger. So if the Moslems don’t kill us all, if, then we’ll be some strong healthy Dhimmis. Or recent converts.

      • Oliver says

        Jul 5, 2016 at 5:27 pm

        Nietszche also (was supposed to have said) “G-d is dead. there is no G-d”).

        When he died, someone wrote: “Nietszche is dead. There is no Nietszche”.

        I tried to read him in college-I still get headaches remembering it. Not as bad as those when I did try and understand his ramling.

        This State Dept. person’s ramblings make, in my view, as much sense.

        I read somewhere, (I beleive in a pro- Trump article- re Muslims- that some tens of millions of Muslims in the WEST approved of jihad and ISIS.

        So, they are short of manpower? Let the US and others stop stopping the assholes who want to go there and join. And may they get killed- and quickly.

        A fantasy-and would hope it comes about-when Trump is pres.–ISIS and Hezbollah along with the IRG (Islamic Revolutionary Guards-not Iranian as some say, although most are Iranian nationals) get into a Civil War/WW1 type battle- face to face, tens of thousands on each side– fight to the last man, with breaks for reinforcements- and both sides succeed in killing most of the other. (All would be better).

        • Mockingjay says

          Jul 5, 2016 at 7:01 pm

          I thought it was:

          “Nietszche is dead.

          God.”

          !

        • Mirren10 says

          Jul 6, 2016 at 8:24 am

          ”I thought it was:

          “Nietszche is dead.

          God.”

          🙂 🙂

  2. Adrian says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 4:23 pm

    Obama and crew have every base covered:

    1. When things go Kaboom, that means we are really winning.

    2. Regardless, “it’s very difficult” to stop every instance of these “lashings out” from occurring.

    Next question…

    • Carolyne says

      Jul 6, 2016 at 2:18 pm

      In the Boston Marathon attack, the FBI had information given them by Russia which they disregarded and the pressure cooker bombs went off.

      In the San Bernardino attack, they had the perpetrators on their “Watch list” and weren’t watching very effectively.

      In Orlando, they even disregarded a warning from Disney Land that this idiot had been casing out Mickey Mouse and they set it aside.

      What does the FBI actually do except exonerate Hillary Clinton?

  3. Sam says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    This will make sense only to a liberal, of course.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    Actually the ISIS jihad mass murder attacks doesn’t really mean that any kind of “war strategy ” of the Obama administration is either effective or working. What It does mean that ISIS is expanding and well as showing more of its it true demonic brutally vicious colors. Furthermore, about the actual essence of that brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS. Most people know that the head and chief of that is a man who goes by the name of al Baghdadi By contrast, what few people seem to know is that al Baghdadi is just a figurehead and a puppet rulers of ISIS. That the actual and real head and chief of that heinous and dangerous jihad organization is someone else. Who that “someone else” has been exposed in the book entitled THE ISIS CRISIS by Charles Dyer. For on page 166 the author explains that “The ultimate commander of ISIS remains unseen by most of his followers, but he is not unknown. This commander is Satan himself… Satan moves across the earth ‘like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.’ [First Peter 5:8.] Therefore, the vicious jihadist thugs who compose ISIS are, in realty, vicious, malicious and deluded fools who are being use by Satan, as his stooges and tools, to inflict demonic murderous harm on humankind. So must so that those violent wicked and insanely deluded jihad savages who make up ISIS are like those callous characters described in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. That teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” In addition, those malice-filled fiendish jihadists of ISIS are so very bloodthirstily, ruinous dangerous and murderous that they are similar to, in character, the hideous villains described in the Bible. Which reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood: ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” Romans 3:15-17. [N.I.V.]

    • Champ says

      Jul 5, 2016 at 4:41 pm

      Great comment, Walter.

  5. Wellington says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 4:30 pm

    Orwellian.

    • JMB says

      Jul 5, 2016 at 8:07 pm

      Yes, straight out of the “Ministry for Truth”

  6. gravenimage says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    State Department: ISIS jihad attacks are signs of US success against ISIS
    ………………………

    You can’t make this sh*t up…

    Here’s more from the sickening Tony Blinken:

    “Obama Admin Moves to Block Restitution for U.S. Terror Victims”

    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-moves-to-block-restitution-for-u-s-terror-victims/

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 6, 2016 at 8:29 am

      From the article you linked to, graven.

      “A PA insolvency and collapse would harm current and future U.S.-led efforts to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Blinken writes.”

      In other words, ”a PA insolvency and collapse” would harm the current Obama administration’s efforts to destroy Israel, since that is exactly what a ”two-state solution” would be.

      *Sickening*.

  7. Angemon says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Tuesday said that recent “indiscriminate” terror attacks are actually a measure of success that the U.S. is having in combating the Islamic State terrorist group, saying the attacks are occurring as the group’s territory and resources are being taken away from them.

    Oh, like the Orlando attack? But I thought that was anything but having something to do with islam.

    “And unfortunately, one of the things that they do in response is to lash out with these indiscriminate terrorist attacks — suicide bombers, car bombs, you name it — going back to the more traditional model of terrorism. And it’s horrific,” Mr. Blinken said.

    But muh poverty! And muh islamophobia! You tellin’ me that poverty and islamophobia are NOT what causes islamic terrorism?

    A series of deadly bombings rocked Saudi Arabia and Iraq in the past several days, with the group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, claiming responsibility for a deadly car bombing over the weekend in Baghdad.

    The group also claimed responsibility for the recent deadly hostage standoff in Bangladesh, and officials have said the recent attack at Turkey’s Ataturk Airport appears to be tied to ISIS, though it has not claimed responsibility.

    They also claimed responsibility for the massacre in Orlando – not that it had anything to do with islam or that the shooter was linked to ISIS, right? RIGHT?!?!?!

    • Rich says

      Jul 6, 2016 at 10:58 am

      Is this guy Winken actually part of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod? He should hop in a shoe and sail away.

  8. Jaladhi says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 5:27 pm

    This government is delusional. More attacks by ISIS is a sign of their losing territory or “sign of US success against ISIS or what ever. It looks as if these people have lost all their brains or they are cunning as fox and trying to deceive the public and are even succeeding. That says something about the intelligence of the public!!

  9. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 5:29 pm

    Just only look straight into the face of this fool and tell me that he doesn’t know that he is playing fool with most of his audience of fools!

  10. WorkingClassPost says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    Part of the continuing narrative here in UK: BBC documentary on tonight called United States of Hate, about, you guessed it, muslimophobia.

    Gonna watch it and get myself edumacated.

  11. Norger says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    Ever think of just annihilating ISIS so there’s nothing left to lash out with?

    • Carolyne says

      Jul 6, 2016 at 2:24 pm

      Now, Norger, there’s a good idea. Too bad Obama never though of it.

  12. Oliver says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    Just over 100 years ago (name escapes me, was a humorist/writer/satirist from Maryland said that ” one cannot underestimate the intelligence of the American public”.

    Elections and the coronation of Clinton as the (presumed) DEm candidate proves this.

  13. Guest says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 6:06 pm

    “Success?” If we won all members of ISIS would be dead!

  14. citycat says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    “… Taking the foreign fighters away, taking the resources away”
    taking away the Muslims to breed away.
    The cancer type entity is already rooted in infidel lands.

  15. Mockingjay says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    The Mainstream Media also doesn’t seem to have a CLUE that jihad attacks might actually intensify BECAUSE of RAMADAN.

    – They keep saying things on the news like “In spite of it being the holy month of ramadan, the terrorist attacks have become deadlier”.

    Ofcourse you never know if this is willful deceit or just plain stupidness.

  16. Nigel GFF says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 7:14 pm

    “What we’re seeing, I think,…”

    “… indiscriminate terrorist attacks — suicide bombers, car bombs, you name it — going back to the more traditional model of terrorism.”…

    “And if you have someone willing to blow themselves up it’s very difficult,”

    Phew, in baseball parlance I think that’s called ‘covering your bases’. If it was football, I’d describe it as ‘scoring an own goal’. Let’s hope the audience are more discriminating – if that’s still allowed.

  17. Gramma says

    Jul 5, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    No ISIS jihad attacks are signs of our failed, illogical and insane border policies. 99% of all these Middle East and African invaders are muslim. Why not the Christians?????

    Because the pus in the White House is a muslim himself.

    Christians are being slaughtered and Barack HUSSEIN Obama is bringing in muslims.

  18. linnte says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 2:14 am

    This guy mentioned attacks in Saudi Arabia and other places, yet leaves out Orlando because, oh you know, THAT wasn’t ISIS! TOTALLY ignoring what is happening in America and Europe. What happened in Orlando must have just been a madman’s errand. More bull to distract the attention of the public.

  19. scherado says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 4:43 am

    A wounded animal is three-times as dangerous…or more.

  20. UriahB says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 6:42 am

    No medication on earth, no mental institution, nothing, can cure this member of the animal farm.

  21. Carolyne says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 2:14 pm

    I haven’t believed anything coming out of the US State Department for years.

  22. WILDBILL2U says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    I suppose the rapes that are occurring in Europastan by ‘family refugees’ are because of the lack of Christian victimss in Syria due to the extermination of large numbers of Christians due to the jihad.
    ‘

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