OUR WORST FEARS!

During the Munich Olympic Games, James McKay reported on the death of the Israeli athletes held hostage by Islamic terrorists.  He summed things up perfectly:

When I was a kid my father used to say “Our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized.” Our worst fears have been realized tonight. They have now said there were 11 hostages; two were killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport tonight. They’re all gone.

The following statement at a Pentagon briefing by Secretary of Defense Chuck Nagel and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff is stunningly blunt:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/21/us-usa-islamicstate-idUSKBN0GL24V20140821

Hagel:  “The sophistication, wealth and military might of Islamic State militants represent a major threat to the United States that may surpass that once posed by al Qaeda…

“They are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it’s in Iraq or anywhere else,”

Dempsey:  “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic, end-of- days strategic vision and which will eventually have to be defeated,”

So how is our President responding to this clear and present danger?

Obama:  “People like this ultimately fail. They fail because the future is won by those who build and not destroy. The world is shaped by people like Jim Foley and the overwhelming majority of humanity who are appalled by those who killed him. The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans anywhere, we do what’s necessary to see that justice is done and we act against ISIL, standing alongside others. 

Actually, as General Dempsey pointed out, people like this are only stopped when someone is willing to pay the price to defeat them.

Our President took time off from playing golf to announce that he will pursue the people who murdered Jim Foley just as aggressively as he pursued the people who murdered Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi.  The following quote from Ben Rhodes outlines this administration’s response to the threat from ISIS.

Ben Rhodes:  “We haven’t made a decision to take additional actions at this time, but we truly don’t rule out additional action against ISIL if it becomes warranted,”

One has to wonder what, more than “imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it is in Iraq or anywhere else” would be required to get Obama’s attention.

Sadly, I think that day will come only after we realize our worst fears.

TDM

One thought on “OUR WORST FEARS!

  1. additional actions agains ISIL”if it becomes warranted”
    what in the world will it take; I hope something is going on that we don’t know about but with past actions we can only hope I guess; going from bad to worse..we knew it would be disastrous…..

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