Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel chimed in on a growing escalation of US attacks in Iraq today, labeled ISIS “beyond just a terrorist group” and insisting that they are the most dangerous group the US has ever seen.
“This is beyond anything that we’ve seen. So we must prepare for everything. And the only way you do that is take a cold, steely, hard look at it and get ready,” Hagel added, saying ISIS is a “imminent threat to every interest we have.”
Hagel went on to say ISIS is growing more dangerous, and that the “long-term” US military operation is far from over. He also touched on revelations of a failed rescue attempt for a slain American journalist, defending it as a “flawless operation.”
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral Kirby expressed displeasure about the fact that the failed Syrian raid went public at all, saying he would’ve much preferred it to remain a secret, but that the media was going to publish the story anyhow.
President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have already laid out the case yesterday that they are going to “crush” ISIS militarily, which would involve a broad, open-ended war in both Iraq and Syria. While officials don’t seem to want to admit that publicly, they do seem to want to lay the groundwork for those precipitous escalations to come.
The administration initially couched its new Iraq War as a “humanitarian intervention,” but has quickly dispatched with that talking point in favor of a redux of the 2003 occupation talking points, centering on the enemy being “inexplicable, nihilistic, and valueless evil.”
Polls have continued to show solid American opposition to a new ground invasion of Iraq, though with Congress not even seriously considering bringing the matter up for debate, President Obama seems to be free to escalate irrespective of public opinion.
One of my interests is trading baseball cards from 1945 to April 1962. My question to Mr. Hagel is?
What can I do as a loyal American from preventing ISIS from threatening my interests and what exactly is their position on baseball and baseball cards?
Asking those hardball questions, as opposed to curve ball questions, will get you labeled a "terrist" sympathizer, you know.
Say, what have the boys at PNAC been doing lately?
Their "new Pearl Harbor" was a gem-quality prediction. It's like they had a crystal ball. Presently, Pax Americana is crumbling within and without. If ever there was a time for a "catastrophic and catalyzing event" to rally the world behind America, that time is now.
When the going gets tough, the tough play dirty. Same as it always was.
LOL. Didn't they say this about Saddam's WMD's ??
First, Hagel is lying. Second, he means exactly that: his interests not my interests. I could careless what happens in Iraq. If he wants to fight this war, he and his corrupt interest groups can go defend their interests.
They are, but they're going to use the youth of America and the tax dollars from every American taxpayer.
For true antiwar advocates to praise and endorse people like Hagel as "moderates" and "realists" only promotes MSM deceptions, impedes better political awareness, and eventually harms one's own credibility for having been so foolishly misled and misleading.
Well, despite the hoopla, for Hagel, just like his Senate pal Obama, the only meaningful lessons of Vietnam were to practice greater duplicity and secrecy and to avoid using a drafted army.
C'mon, Hagel is still trying to peddle the Vietnam "domino theory"!
As was pointed out back at this website in January 2013:
Hagel chairs the enthusiastically pro-empire and pro-NATO Atlantic Council.
Hagel ALREADY advises as co-chair of the Intelligence Advisory Board.
Hagel supports the Homeland “security” “war on terror”.
Hagel has made clear his willingness both to support Israel and attack Iran.
Hagel is a false “moderate” who will only provide cover for new crimes.
Bottom line, Hagel advocates an expansive global Pentagon militarism.
The blowhards in the US government all sing from the same song book, and its title is “they are coming to kill us.”.
In the early 20th century it was the dreded German Huns coming to kill us. Then it was the Russian communists in the 20s that were coming to kill us, and the Germans were our friends. Then in the 30s, the Nazis were coming to kill us and the russian commies were our friends. At this time Imperial Japan were also coming to kill us.
After ww2, the russian commies changed their minds and were then coming to kill us again, but the Japanese and Germans became our friends.! Then it was the Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese communists coming to kill us.
In the 80s, then it was the nicaraguan Sandinistas, and the other central and south american communists coming to kill us. Panama’s Noriega was our friend as well as the Afghan Mujahedeen.
We also we had the Iraqis as our friends, and the Iranians were coming to kill us. In the 90s, Noriega’s Panamanians were coming to kill us unless we invaded and affected regime change.
Also Iraq became our enemy in the 90s, and the US has continue to bomb the country for almost a generation now. Vietnam and China became our trading friends. And Russian became our friend again.
At the turn of the century, the Afghans were coming to kill us and was the cause of 19 Saudis coming to kill us in the form of 9/11 even thoug the Saudis remained our friends.
Now Russia, China and the ISIS are eventually going to come and kill us if we don’t do something.
The song remains the same, Washington must have enemies in order to justify an empire abroad and a police state at home.
If the US government didn’t have enemies to incite fear, they would just make up new enemies- witness all of the FBI’s efforts to manufacture terrorist plots to keep the American public in a perpetual state of fear or the distribution if of weapons to the Syrian ISIS in the last few years.
After all our bi-partison masters would say; if we don’t take 1/2 your income, treat just about everyone in the country as a criminal and a potential terrorist, they will then be coming to kill us.
Looked like Hagel wet himself in the video.
– the dominoes are falling! the dominoes are falling!
how will we be saved?
– with more Orwellian laws, and bigger Orwellian government
I meant from ourselves.
The U.S. has been trying to get directly involved in the Syrian civil war since its frantic attempt to sell a bombing campaign just last summer with the pretext a phony sarin gas attack. This time Washington is selling the pretext of recent ISIS gains and a main stream media eagerly promoting ISIS atrocities.
One has to wonder how we are going to 'crush' ISIS if we are not- as the President TOLD us- going to put 'boots on the ground' in the region again. Then again, I wonder if by 'crush' he means "we're just going to bomb and attack and get our soldiers killed until we're tired of that then we'll leave" just like we did in Afghanistan and Iraq. Come to think of it, that was pretty much our strategy in Vietnam and we see how well that worked out for us in the long run.
"…Vietnam and we see how well that worked out for us…"
I don't know…have you looked at the label in your T-shirt lately? Pretty good chance it was made in Vietnam. And Vietnam and China are at loggerheads right now in the South China Sea – probably being egged on by the USG.
The question that I am asking Hagel is, ISIS imminent threat is the obvious threat, how about Saudis and UAE in general, how about Israel? After all, ISIS was a creation in cooperation with Saudis/UAE/Israel, Turkish Islamic regime, Jordanian kingdom regime and some Europeans government openly supporting Saudis dictatorial regime like the far right Swedish, hence, the root of the problem lies within the economic interests of these regimes which in reality talks only about these regimes "interests" and for that USG/Saudis/EU/UAE since 1990 have managed to destroy lots of nations.
well I can see one flaw in the rescue operation
“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
-1984
“inexplicable, nihilistic, and valueless evil.”
'inexplicable': well, if Kerry can't find motives, then either the most expensive Intelligence in the world failed drastically, or there are motives he'd rather not discuss. Their motives might be explained by Gladio B… How strange that you've paid off fighters there in the past and ostensibly avoided arming them ('vetting' the 'rebels') even as they 'stole' shipments to your friends, etc., … Aint the 'enemy' even full of Turks and Westerners? The deducible motive for the Aug '13 gas attack in Ghouta was to draw the USg in, exploiting a 'red line' declaration by goon #1. Both Syria and Iraq are important allies of Iran, and there's been a pause on propaganda against Iran as the Syria/Iraq issue grew.
Are you suggesting that the American public is being manipulated, again? Now, why would they not want to tell us, their enablers, what it is they are doing? I mean, they work for us, right?
All snark aside, the multitude of stories, many times at complete odds to what the previous department spokesperson handed down a hour earlier is designed to obfuscate – no, obliterate the truth from the American people. The polls are basically correct in that the American people are tired of all this warmongering and warmaking and need to be tricked into expanding the war efforts.
They didn't need weariness to need to be tricked…though that might explain successive tries and persistent failures…
… had the weird idea that USg terror entrapments were really just recruitment rejects… They certainly demonstrate USg interest in manipulating individuals/small groups into committing to things…even punishing those that didn't really. And Muslim groups are so heavily spied upon that it should seem a little weird that 'western' Muslims end up fighting for 'the enemy.'
Where the hell was Hagel all this time?
And a good thing too for the defense industry. CHA CHING, CHA CHING
Lying sacks of shit!
Now ISIS danger is "imminent" because a white, American had his head lopped off. However, when hundreds of others, who were not white or American had their heads lopped off, there was no outrage. Get ready for a huge black flag operation.
Have you considered that this entire ISIS thing is just one big USG black flag concoction? It would not be the first time the USG has done this…just not on this grand scale.
Have I thought that? Well, …….YES!!! In fact how obvious does it have to be?
The only "imminent threat" to America are the incompetent psychopaths in the District of Columbia and the warmongers in the Pentagon.
It's an imminent threat to the Kurdish oil fields that supply Israel
which to some, threatens every interest they have
The ISIL has its origins in a Kurdish insurgent group, which formed after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and was headed by former arch terrorist Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, who swore allegiance to al-Qa’ida in 2004 to form al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI). Everyone knows that Al-Qaida is trained CIA agent. After al-Zarqawi’s death, the surge in 2007 and the program of bribing Sunni tribesmen to renounce resistance against the American occupation, AQI experienced a period of decline, but rebounded after the start of the western regime change operation in Syria in 2011, when the leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, dispatched fighters for Jabhat al-Nusra while renaming his contingent in Iraq the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).
Proving once again that the US is the biggest and most dangerous terrorist nation on Earth presently and almost certainly of all time since these frothing at the mouth psychos in power have nukes at their disposal. Scary thought.