Confronting Terror | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Let us also remember that a major force in staffing ISIL (or Daesh, not ISIS) was the Iraqi Army, which George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld stupidly disarmed rather than coopting. The reason ISIS was so successful in gaining ground from Asad was that they were already a trained fighting force from Iraq, who had fled to Syria when the Americans and the Sunni Tribal elders went looking for them. Also, while we were a part of the body count in Iraq, much of it is and was about religious and ethnic tension that Saddam kept in check during his bloody reign that finally came out when he and the U.S. were both gone. The likely reason there was no no-fly zone, aside from likely American planes shot down, is that Asad was the only one whose air strikes slowed ISIL down.
I like that Obama alluded to the Waahabi sect of Islam. I wish he had declared war on them directly. It would show the Saudi Royals that we mean business. Bombing the state sponsors of terror should not be limited to Iraq, Iran (in the neo-con's secret desires) and Afghanistan. While we are making progress on the penninsula by fighting the Yemeni extremists, we need to look north and find very specific actions to take, rather than simply calling out other Muslims to outrage. Of course, that should happen too, although the fascists like Trump and FoxNews seem to delight in trying to go after all Muslilms, making getting peaceful Muslims on board even harder.
One curious thing. Why no mention of the deranged pro-life terrorist from Colorado? Just wondering.
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