“We don’t understand real evil, organized evil, very well. This is evil incarnate.”

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Hugh Hewitt Blog:

Hugh Hewitt

August 8, 2014

 

That title is a quote from former Ambassador Ryan Crocker, quoted in Peter Baker’s fine piece in Friday’s New York Times’ on the president’s decision to sort-of, kind-of, maybe strike against ISIS.

 

Baker’s quote of Crocker, who served as President George W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq and President Obama’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, is worth reading in its entirety:

 

 

“This is about America’s national security,” said Ryan Crocker, who was ambassador to Iraq under Mr. Bush and to Afghanistan under Mr. Obama. “We don’t understand real evil, organized evil, very well. This is evil incarnate. People like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the ISIS leader, “have been in a fight for a decade. They are messianic in their vision, and they are not going to stop.”

 

This is the chilling reality of the war in which we continue to find ourselves, a reality that the American left –of which the president is the condensed, 100% concentrated version– refuses to believe: that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or Hamas, or any Islamist not named bin Laden is a threat to the United States. The president and his ideological allies especially refuse to consider any facts that are inconsistent with their conclusions, even facts that line up as direct threats to America, because they’d rather live in ignorance and danger than validate in any way W’s view of the world and of the crucial necessity of staying involved in the Islamic world, helping our genuine allies and fighting our genuine enemies there.

 

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HORRORS OF ISIS: CHILDREN BURIED ALIVE, CRUCIFIED CORPSES

John Hayward

Yazidis in Iraq are telling stories of mass murder and rape to their relatives abroad - including in Israel, where (contrary to the endless stream of garbage pumped by the terrorists of Hamas and their sympathizers) minorities are protected and human rights are respected. "Two hundred and fifty men were killed while Islamic State men stood around holding a flag that says Allahu Akbar," one Yazidi told his brother in Israel.

Obama announced action against the Islamic State as if that chamber of horrors sprang into existence last night, and he immediately leaped into action against it. Nonsense. He's known this stuff was happening for weeks and months. Contrary to his feeble excuses about learning everything at the same time we do, by watching the news, he gets presidential intelligence briefings. The brutality shown by ISIS toward Christians has been a matter of record for a long time, and Obama said nothing. No surprise the Islamists are even more brutal toward the Yazidis, who they consider "devil worshipers."

This was all as predictable as the sunrise, but Obama did nothing, said nothing, until global media lit up with pictures of those fifty thousand people stranded on the slopes of the mountain that looms above their ancestral homeland, dying of hunger and exposure. Obama acted at the exact moment his political team told him he couldn't afford to ignore the situation and continue with his vacation plans. Let's be brutally frank: he acted when his adviser Valerie Jarrett told him he had to.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/08/08/Horrors-of-ISIS

[Valin]

HORRORS OF ISIS: CHILDREN BURIED ALIVE, CRUCIFIED CORPSES

John Hayward

Yazidis in Iraq are telling stories of mass murder and rape to their relatives abroad - including in Israel, where (contrary to the endless stream of garbage pumped by the terrorists of Hamas and their sympathizers) minorities are protected and human rights are respected. "Two hundred and fifty men were killed while Islamic State men stood around holding a flag that says Allahu Akbar," one Yazidi told his brother in Israel.

 

Besides I'm on vacation...talk to Valery, she's running the show now.