From the moment the video emerged of ISIS executing Jordanian pilot Lt. Moaz al-Kasaesbeh, US officials were salivating at the prospect of Jordan being sucked deeper into their war. It looks like they may get their wish.
Jordan’s public policy is now officially centered on a Moby Dick-style quest for revenge, and US officials couldn’t be happier, seeing heedless escalation as something that can only benefit the war effort.
Exactly what Jordan intends to do still isn’t clear, but the rhetoric suggests it will be anything an unlimited and endless war, with King Abdullah saying the only problem they’d have is “running out of fuel and bullets.”
Kasaesbeh was a member of a powerful tribe in Jordan, and they are pushing the calls for revenge against ISIS, which has turned into official state policy, with officials believing that they can somehow out-brutal ISIS into an outright victory.
The White House isn’t attempting to disabuse them of this notion, even though every other nation that has decided they can “beat” ISIS with harsh reactions as seen their policy benefit ISIS and give them more recruitment power and influence.
The White House was publicly comfortable with Jordan’s initial revenge killings, saying the deaths were in keeping with the Jordanian justice system. They seem unlikely to criticize any of the further killings Jordan has promised to carry out.
Jordan, Japan, France. Who will be next to join the crusades?
It won't be Israel. They are salivating at the prospect of yet another Arab society being completely smashed…
It sure is curious how the state that should be most afraid of a new "kill everyone who resists" state on its borders has nothing to say about The Islamic State and has taken no public action to oppose it.
Good point. Usually they see someone sneezing in the middle east as an existential threat. Tough Americans are shaking in their panties about IS, but their bff the israelis? Not so much.
“harsh reactions… benefit ISIS and give them more recruitment power and influence.”
And in the end, in the end of this war to establish Empire expantion, in the end of all wars, the reality that force is the most evil of all crimes, for all time this will be established as most absolute.
For all things have a purpose, even this doomed existence we call life.
What a joke.Jordan facilitates training ISIS with Mosad Mi5 and CIA and now is calling for their heads.Who is fooling who?
The world dealing with barbarism, fascism and Neo Democracy open to all kind of social political views, even caliphate, a stone aged social system out there. Islam as a Religious, not a philosophy or a social idea for better life was brought to Europe to stop the grouwth of a social idea where socialism would be the beneficiary. To use Islamic extremism-fascism-barbarism started when Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright used the source (Saudi Arabia) of these barabrians to divide yugoslavia, later the very same source was used in Afghanistan and Iraq by Bush regime and Libya by Hillary Clinton.
The present time of barbarism and Neo Fascism is the result of a idea in “democracy” where those whom are engaged and were engaged in such foreign policy had no idea what democracy is. These people are still engaged in a fake and non existing democracy in practical terms when their refusal to help the Syrian, Iranian and Iraqi government to face ISIS follows the very same stupidity as when they started using their only source to invade Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
ISIS is a Saudis fifth military column created when they were used by Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright, now they have a demand, they want their own “caliphate” barbarism regime to be established in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria and Iraq, countries where they were used by the westren foreign policy makers as Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton to present prime minister/presidents and king and queens of the west.
Another non-democratic ally pledges to fight for us. Big deal. I have about as much sympathy for Jordan and their Playstation King, as I do for the other monarchs of the region.
Who cares if they fall to ISIS besides a handful of skumbags.
Jordan Promises to fight ISIS; Ho, Ho, Bleeping Ho. I think they mean cheering the US Marines from the comfort of their palaces in Amman. IE; fighting ISIS with OUR BLOOD, as is always the case for these middle eastern despots.
Can Syria shoot down Jordanian jets when they violate Syrian air space? Is there an agreement that would trigger US deeper involvement under some pretext that Syria had hit it's partner in some treaty? Lastly, under what legal authority [UN?] has the current bombardment of Syrian territory been occuring?