A Commentary By The Daily Show - On the anniversary of 9/11, President Barack Obama and hawkish Republicans find themselves in unexpected agreement about military action in Iraq. (8:53):
My responses to The Daily Show's comments;
ISIS is an ancient Egyptian Goddess. Because her story is of "death & resurrection" her story is considered to be a precursor to the story of Jesus & Christianity's ritual of the Eucharist celebrating Jesus's death & ressurection, where ISIS is said to represent the Mother Mary. It's unfortunate to have her name sullied.
True. We cannot use force everywhere where a radical ideology takes root. We have to access the threat level of each group and take it from there. A group with excellent funding, taking large swaths of territory with the stated goal of taking over America would fit that criteria of being a potential threat in 10-20 years. Making sure it can't get big would accomplish our goal is "degrading ISIS", I personally don't think we have to do much else on that front, if ISIS can't grow than it can't be a threat... providing we don't create conditions for their ideology to spread. Currently a force of 30,000 out of a population of Muslims of 1 billion means nothing. The rest of our war is about propaganda.
True. We can't play wack a mole wherever an ideology appears. If we did we would always be killing people. Take the Nazi's for example; during ww2 we wanted to exterminate them but after ww2 we learned to live peaceful alongside with them and they even vote Republican. lol!
From another perspective: Ideology is just an idea, a thought... free speech. Fox News often uses free speech to slander and smear people (especially lack people & other non-whites) that if we were to stop them they would have political strategy lef
From yet another perspective: Although many terrorist groups originate amoungst the KKK & the Neo Nazi's ( US: Militia members plotted to kill federal officials, prosecutors say ) not all of them are violent, so we don't exterminate all KKK & American Neo-Nazis (especially since genocide is normally considered to be a bad thing). IN the same way, simply a group being anti-American is not a good reason to attack them, especially after we created so many enemies around the world with our foreign policy. Reagan with his death squads has certainly created anti-American ideology in South & Central America AND they are certainly not Muslims.
From another perspective: Ideology is just an idea, a thought... free speech. Fox News often uses free speech to slander and smear people (especially lack people & other non-whites) that if we were to stop them they would have political strategy lef
From yet another perspective: Although many terrorist groups originate amoungst the KKK & the Neo Nazi's ( US: Militia members plotted to kill federal officials, prosecutors say ) not all of them are violent, so we don't exterminate all KKK & American Neo-Nazis (especially since genocide is normally considered to be a bad thing). IN the same way, simply a group being anti-American is not a good reason to attack them, especially after we created so many enemies around the world with our foreign policy. Reagan with his death squads has certainly created anti-American ideology in South & Central America AND they are certainly not Muslims.
These statistics explain why Obama is suddenly taking action in Syria. (GOP-Republicans create their own reasons to take action)
If 65% of people did not support airstrikes in Syria Obama wouldn't have made them. It's that simple.
So, given how the media manipulates public opinion, it's the media's fault whether Obama takes action or not on any particular issue.
Obama claims we have had a successful anti-terrorism policy in Yemen & Somalia
I think Obama is just following what his Generals are saying about their past actions and their chances of success. Here is a quick look at some of their accomplishments in those two countries;
Petraeus and the signature of U.S. terror: The CIA pressures Obama to step up indiscriminate attacks in Yemen
The United States should be encouraging non-violence in Yemen, respect for human rights and the rule of law. Instead, we have engaged in lawless violence, denying our own citizens fundamental due process.
From Salon: The face of collateral damage Photos of missile debris help trace the path of a CIA drone missile that killed a young girl
The civilian massacre the US neither confirms nor denies
This sort of model of response will probably gain ISIS/ISIL SOME recruits, from the poor & disenfranchised or just plain crazy, but not many.
Petraeus and the signature of U.S. terror: The CIA pressures Obama to step up indiscriminate attacks in Yemen
The United States should be encouraging non-violence in Yemen, respect for human rights and the rule of law. Instead, we have engaged in lawless violence, denying our own citizens fundamental due process.
From Salon: The face of collateral damage Photos of missile debris help trace the path of a CIA drone missile that killed a young girl
The civilian massacre the US neither confirms nor denies
This sort of model of response will probably gain ISIS/ISIL SOME recruits, from the poor & disenfranchised or just plain crazy, but not many.
An all Christian coalition will probably play into ISIS/ISIL propaganda. Telling Arabs States we are sorry for the years of slander & smearing by Fox News might help. Putting Dick Cheney in prison, where he belongs, would help mend public relations with a whole host of countries, Muslim & Christian.
Note: Since this Daily Show video, almost 40 countries have endorsed the campaign.
Note: Since this Daily Show video, almost 40 countries have endorsed the campaign.
Using the actions of 4 guys in contrast to the one guy (Andre) or the Neo Nazi/KKK groups, GOP/Fox-News is smearing a billion people.
Historical tidbit: The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, was designated a terrorist group in 1871 by Congress.
After all these years, KKK/Neo-Nazis is not so terror oriented is it? Or is it?
“Oklahoma City”: The Bubba job Two seasoned journalists explore the disturbing, unanswered questions about the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995
Historical tidbit: The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, was designated a terrorist group in 1871 by Congress.
After all these years, KKK/Neo-Nazis is not so terror oriented is it? Or is it?
“Oklahoma City”: The Bubba job Two seasoned journalists explore the disturbing, unanswered questions about the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995
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