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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (803373)	8/23/2014 12:46:14 AM
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>> We were meddling in the ME way before Saddam. We HAD to middle in the ME. The entire world was dependent on it. And when you try to stop meddling, it is easy to see what happens. You guys act as if the genesis of all this was the Iraq War. It wasn't. Most of us just had little awareness prior to 9/11. The Marine Barracks should have been eye opening; but it wasn't. Most people thought it was a one-off. Davidson and Rees-Mogg saw it in '91, and wrote in some detail about it in The Great Reckoning. We are engaged in a global religious war. Bill Clinton never saw it coming. Bush saw it by noon on 9/11. Barack Obama STILL doesn't see it. And we did not choose to be at war with these people. We will either rise to the occasion or we will suffer from not having done so. Marc Thiessen wrote in the Washington Post last week: "Obama may be tired of war, as were Hitler’s enemies. But the Islamic State is not tired of war. It has been explicit about its intentions. The lessons of history are clear." We will either fight this crap or we will stand idly by and watch. But they are determined. Thiessen wrote in the same article, Their “caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, recently warned: “Our last message is to the Americans: Soon we will be in direct confrontation, and the sons of Islam have prepared for such a day. So watch, for we are with you, watching.” They are rapidly accumulating the recruits and resources to follow through on this threat. The Islamic State is actively establishing cells outside Iraq and Syria, including in Europe. And according to scholars at the Rand Corporation, it “ currently brings in more than $1 million a day in revenue and is now the richest terrorist group on the planet. .?.?. A conservative calculation suggests that [the Islamic State] may generate a surplus of $100 million to $200 million this year.” When someone tells you they're getting ready to assault you, you don't stand by and argue about why. You take them out before they take you out. Has nothing at all to do with the Iraq War or George Bush or any of that.