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A video released onto the internet claims to show that Islamic State militants have killed the captured US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
In the video, a masked militant stands over a severed head said to be that of Mr Kassig. Link.
RIP. Life is cheap under ISIS, and Obama has allowed ISIS to flourish. These attacks will continue until our weak President decides to get serious.
RIP. Life is cheap under ISIS, and Obama has allowed ISIS to flourish. These attacks will continue until our weak Presidentdecides to get seriousleaves office and is replaced by someone with some vestige of guts and competence.
RIP. Life is cheap under ISIS, and Obama has allowed ISIS to flourish. These attacks will continue until our weak President decides to get serious.
RIP. Life is cheap under ISIS, and Obama has allowed ISIS to flourish. These attacks will continue until our weak President decides to get serious.
It's so incredibly lazy that you just waltz in here to hurl insults at Obama but can't seem to lay out what should be done. I mean is that all you people do around here? Whine about Obama without providing any kind of substance?
Did you realize there were beheadings under Bush? Did you cry about him being weak? Selective outrage.
Obama needs to follow Bush's lead and launch another multi-trillion dollar war in the Middle East. Then babysit the nations he topples/agitates indefinitely so that civil war doesn't break out. Perhaps he can drop bundles of money on the doorsteps of tribal leaders so that they have an incentive not to kill each other. Although wealth redistribution doesn't work in America (according to conservatives), it might work in the Middle East.
I know man, I can't believe these people. It seems like DP is just a place for lazy old people to shake their fist angrily and whine about Obama without providing any actual constructive input. It's a tragedy this happened but on no ****ing planet is this Obama's fault. Why don't we blame the mother ****ers that did this instead?
Or if we want to get really creative why don't we blame the guy who destabilized the region by invading it?
Condolences to his family, their pleas seam to have been ignored.
I'm particularly angry about the deaths of aid workers, people who have gone to help - been captured by the very people they went to help, handed over to jihadists and then beheaded.
Condolences to his family, their pleas seam to have been ignored.
I'm particularly angry about the deaths of aid workers, people who have gone to help - been captured by the very people they went to help, handed over to jihadists and then beheaded.
RIP. Life is cheap under ISIS, and Obama has allowed ISIS to flourish. These attacks will continue until our weak President decides to get serious.
How has our President been weak in terms of handling ISIS, and what does it mean to get serious?
Obama needs to follow Bush's lead and launch another multi-trillion dollar war in the Middle East. Then babysit the nations he topples/agitates indefinitely so that civil war doesn't break out. Perhaps he can drop bundles of money on the doorsteps of tribal leaders so that they have an incentive not to kill each other. Although wealth redistribution doesn't work in America (according to conservatives), it might work in the Middle East.
RIP. Life is cheap under ISIS, and Obama has allowed ISIS to flourish. These attacks will continue until our weak President decides to get serious.
Horrible but predictable news. And, I agree it is terrible about aid workers and so forth being the targets that end up beheaded on the internet.
As unfortunate and cruel as it will sound, the families pleas had little hope of doing much. This is the true nature of religion, cutting someone's head off and screaming about God while doing so. ISIS is too convinced they are doing what is right, and too firmly entrenched in the regions they now occupy taking advantage of a long term civil war in one nation and a weak government in another.
All that said we are here now due to decades of interceding in the region trying to convince a group of people to adopt western governmental and sociological ideologies that said people in the region have no aptitude for, and primarily because of this horrible religion they mostly follow.
Society will never advance all that far so long as we are held back by these relics of human design.
Obama needs to follow Bush's lead and launch another multi-trillion dollar war in the Middle East...
Oh give me a break. I am so sick of the "it's religion" crap. It's not religion, it's a perverted ideology. Plenty of non-religious ideologies have killed millions. Far more in the name of man or mans want than any religion.
Save the anti religious rants for the philosophy forum.
Obama has little to do with what ISIS, is doing. He can only do so much without going to war, another war we don't want or need. It's a damn shame that partisan hacks blame everything on the president like he has some almighty power or something. I saw it with Clinton, Bush and now Obama, it's just silly at this point.
Middleground;1063984657[B said:]For ****'s sake, the Bush Administration helped create ISIS. :doh[/B]
My sincere condolences to the friends and family of Mr. Kassig.
Be sick and tired all you would like but it is truth.
Remove their religion and there is little reason to lop someone's head off screaming "Allah!" ISIS, while extreme, is not doing something entirely unique when it comes to harsh treatment of anyone they deem a problem. The entire idea of branding "religious extremism" is not new either. While I completely agree that Islam is furthest behind the evolutionary curve when it comes to growing up we have plenty of historical examples of just about all religions killing many while claiming "God's will." Fact is ISIS is not the first group to behead whomever they capture, nor are they the first group to take advantage of weakened leaders of these nations.
Remove all of our interference in the region headed back a very long time and odds are the landscape of the region would be very different. What is so inconvenient here for everyone is Obama is now the 4th president in a row to engage in military action somewhere in Iraq for some reason. You do not get to ignore all that history just because ole (D) and (R) is getting picked on politically. Like it or not, we have been playing over there for a very long time trying to instill our brand of western ideologies in a region made up with people with no aptitude for the said ideologies we are selling.
Another inconvenient truth is those that make up ISIS have been there a very long time and are now taking advantage of a long term civil war in Syria that we are not so responsible for, and a weak government and military in Iraq that we are entirely responsible for. Again, we do not get to re-write things today just because we are starting to realize what we have done (rather not done.) Our confusing and hypocritical foreign policy (under several Presidents now) has come back to bite us in the ass. Again.
Fact is the Iraq government we left behind is both incompetent and weak, and in that region of the world means all those ideological differences among the splinters of their faith are showing up. Look at those that make up ISIS today and you will find plenty of ties to the region depending on leader you want to discuss. Look all over the region as a whole and you will see a group of people splintered from various faiths that cannot and usually do not get along unless they are forced to living under someone strong enough by both military and religious means. You may not like all of this but an objective review of Middle East history (both long term and recent) confirms it all.
Horrible but predictable news. And, I agree it is terrible about aid workers and so forth being the targets that end up beheaded on the internet.
As unfortunate and cruel as it will sound, the families pleas had little hope of doing much. This is the true nature of religion, cutting someone's head off and screaming about God while doing so. ISIS is too convinced they are doing what is right, and too firmly entrenched in the regions they now occupy taking advantage of a long term civil war in one nation and a weak government in another.
All that said we are here now due to decades of interceding in the region trying to convince a group of people to adopt western governmental and sociological ideologies that said people in the region have no aptitude for, and primarily because of this horrible religion they mostly follow.
Society will never advance all that far so long as we are held back by these relics of human design.
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