Citing the beheading of another captured reporter, US officials are dramatically stepping up their rhetoric related to the ongoing war with ISIS, with President Obama vowing to totally destroy the group.
“Our objective is clear and that is to degrade and destroy,” Obama said of ISIS, insisting the group had already failed because he was “not intimidated” by the beheading.
We’re less than a week off of admissions that the US doesn’t have a real strategy to achieve victory against ISIS, and the group continues to be driving the administration toward heedless escalation, which is greatly increasing ISIS recruitment abilities and international profile, and is just dragging the US into another open-ended, unpopular war.
Other administration officials, including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Secretary of State John Kerry, echoed Obama’s promises, and were similarly light on details for how the war was going to proceed.
Vice President Joe Biden’s comments were by far the most perplexing, however, as he appeared to get his cliches a bit mixed up.
“We don’t forget. We take care of those who are grieving, and when that’s finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice, because hell is where they will reside,” Biden insisted.
The timing was even more puzzling, as Biden was in the middle of delivering a speech about the middle class role in the US economy when he went off on his tangent about ISIS proximity to hell and how the US military would figure into that mix.
What a flip gulp flop in politics by the most senior democrats, Joe Biden wants to divid Iraq, now he wants to send those whom are willing and fighting for not only Iraq but Syria as well, to hell. Then is Obama wanting to destroy ISIS which is theirs and English creation to begin with, yet they don't have any strategy sending these Saudis/UAE/English barbarians to hell or destroying them all to gather, my be the USG/English need to renegotiate with prince Bandar, the head of Saudis secret services until last month, begging him to remove Al Baghdadi from his caliphate regime both in Iraq and Syria, or find someone close to him to kill him as the French secret service killed Gaddafi.
Question is: killing these barbarians from Iraq and Syria and or sending them to hell is USG and English going to restart their deceptive, fraudulent idea going to continue with regime change in Syria, Iraq and Iran.
As we said before, Barack Hussein Obama/David Cameron/Joe Biden/Hillary Clinton and the rest has created a very very long war for the people in Middle East to deal with, meanwhile Israel stealing Palestinians lands and laughing at USG/EU/English foreign policy thinking, there is nothing wrong with apartheid/fascistic regime as long as the idiocy by the west continues.
We want regime change in Syria Iraq and Iran but we need a Regime change in USA and England a lot more .
We're getting rope-a-doped yet again. When will we try something different?
Joe Biden is a blithering idiot.
When we stop supporting the brutal regimes of Israel and the Saudi’s, then maybe Obama can come up with a strategy.
COMEDY GOLD! If these people aren't ridden by the devil, I don't know anymore.
“Our objective is clear and that is to degrade and destroy,”
Yes, thank you for a candid explanation of 15 years of US policy in the Greater Middle East. These birthpangs sound a lot like clusterbombs going off. I also noticed you forgot the "annoy" part.
“We don’t forget. We take care of those who are grieving, and when that’s finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice, because hell is where they will reside”
Unless he is alluding to the US' droning of funeral processions, I can only picture JOHN BIDEN VS. THE CENOBITES. It's pretty much to the point, too.
ISIS has nothing to fear from Oboomer's latest (promise).
If this current (promise) is anything like others from the
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, it (will) go into the (hop) on
his desk as being unfulfilled.
I wonder if they will use cutter charges on the next False Flag?
First there was Desert Storm, an intervention we did not need to do.
Then, there was 8 years of bombings and sanctions under Clinton that caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to die and needlessly drove up oil prices.
Then George the second invaded in 2003 behind lies of WMD, and lies of Iraqs involvement in 911.
Now, Obama is about to step in his own sh%t, at our expense, again, for a fourth time.
None of this has been necessary. Nor was Obama's tripling of the size of the US Afghan catastrophy, six months after getting his Nobel Prize for peace. What is clear is that we have been manipulated into another iteration of the unending "war on terror". Obama and the government fail to mention that we , the US, have trained, equipped , funded, supplied, financed, and even led, ISIS and IFIl and others, for years, first against Libya, then against Syria. They, like Al Qaeda, are American creations. We are being lied to yet again. We need to come to tems with what the US government and Obama are, fascists and tyrants. I for one do not want a government that does nothing but loot us and lie to us. I do not want to send my children or my money to murder people half way around the world. My enemy, the enemy that can arrest me without trial and imprison me indefinetely without a charge is here. My enemy, who claims the right to kill me without any any trial or charge, or oversight, is here. I will not listen to or acknowledge Obama as my leader. He is utterly unworthy. So is this entire government. We deserve so much more.
This Bush-like idiot. Rabbi Ehud Barack Obama hasn't taken his finger off the trigger since he got his Nobel Prize. ISIS will dictate the terms to these imbeciles while wreaking havoc on all of Barack's problems in the region. They will probably help him look like a tough guy with the Russians somehow too. But they will leave Israel and the likes of Saudia, Qatar and UAE alone, as they are paid to do.
Since Joe Biden and Obama are providing comedy free of charge.Saturday Night Live could save a lot of money by firing it's comedy writers
I want to know about Congress's secret deal to fund the Free Syrian Army, Islamic Front and Al Nasura
as I heard about through Thierry Meyssan's new article "The Grand Saudi Reversal" http://www.voltairenet.org/article185132.html
It is significant to note the first footnote concerning a Reuters report, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/27/us-usa-… said that Congress held a secret session in January 2014 to fund and arm the Free Syrian Army, Islamic Front and Al Nasura…..which of course has morphed into ISIS.
Lets put pressure on Congress and the press on this. Who really funded these thugs.
Perhaps we've taken too many punches to the head but to take what is being perpetrated on us lightly is foolish indeed. These people; Obama, Biden, and those who would take us further down the road to an expanded adventure in the ME (and Ukraine also), are deadly serious. They have no skin in the game except reputations, and well, since they will write the histories themselves, who cares what people think now?
It's unfortunate that 2 American journalists were brutally murdered. I wouldn't want that to happen to any human being. But, they understood the danger of being where they were, doing what they were doing. They also understood that the fact that they were Americans tilted the scales against any kind of mercy – remember Abu Ghraib and the fears that exposure of US culpability surrounding torture would come back to haunt the US? Well, payback time.
I listened to the networks ranting and raging over the second murder, all slanted to gin up American support for more war. As I said, it's unfortunate that they died…but their deaths are not sufficient reason to take the country to more war. Snippets of speeches by both of them woven into the narrative referred to how "Americans are united" behind the desire to exact revenge for those deaths. Bullsh*t. Americans are NOT united but that's not going to stop the MS and the warmongers from saying it and as we learned from Bushco, it you repeat something often enough, enough people will buy in to make it look like the government has a mandate. That's why they control the MSM – to manipulate the population and the collective meme. And, it works.
They're doing the same with the narrative surrounding Putin and Ukraine. And the ill-informed and easily manipulated American TV audiences are buying it.
I was a young man during the time of the Vietnam war protests. They were ugly and messy and sometimes violent. But they worked to keep the public aware and eventually the truth behind the adventure came out, little by little. Where are the young now? Why do they not understand that what happens now is something they'll have to deal with for years to come? Why wouldn't they want to have a say in what the people they elect are planning on doing?
Complacency is going to be the major contributing factor to the downfall of America.
who did we murder in abu Grahib .
An Iraqi general, Manadel al-Jamadi. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor…
Part of the problem is that we'll never know because Bushco and the Pentagon preferred to not keep very good records…because records sometimes come back to point fingers and responsibility so its better just to not know…you know, plausible deniability.
But it's what the US did there…they humiliated them. They treated them worse than dogs and laughed about it. What the US did was despicable and all that was accomplished was to stain the American psyche…not to mention the American image. And for all of us who served honorably, that perhaps cuts the deepest.
Paul Newman
“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned”
As established by the Ottoman Empire, with the Islamic State there is some hope of repentance and the Middle-East could end up being the most peaceful and non-violent part of our planet.
But, Empire USA, surely without a first and real people’s Revolution, all is hopeless as the educated upper half of society hoards all political power, hoards all the wealth and without a fight would never allow the uneducated lower half to receive more then a starvation wage.
Wars of plunder have allowed our upper half of society to hoard a third of the capital worldwide, such is Western democracy, the ultimate conclusion of stupidity.
Obama – I will destroy them with my bare hands. Biden – aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Biden brainie go bye bye ?
Antiwar, where do you get them pictures?
We really need the audio to Biden's picture:
"These are not the solutions you're looking for" *waves hands*
"OBAMA VOWS TO BE DESTROYED BY ISIS" – Thought I'd clarify that headline a little bit.