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| MSNBC Host Suggests Ground Troops Against ISIS, Says it is a Religious War€™ |
| 2015-02-17 |
| [Daily Caller] SCHULTZ: It was a weekend of terror around the globe. In Libya, ISIS released a video showing more bloodshed. The video released on Sunday claims to show the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians. The brutal act of violence is clearly a gross display of what ISIS is capable of, what they're motivated about, and what they are really all about. And I think this act of mass murder amounts to a religious war. Now we all have our own interpretations at this point. This continues to go on. At this point these people were targeted, as I see it, and murdered because of their faith. As I see it, the United States is going to have to have continual [review] of its strategy. We caan'€™t sit back here and watch hordes of people get their heads cut off. And why would we tell ISIS there'€™s no way we would ever put ground troops in combat situations? I think it has reached a point where we really have to have a very strong debate in this country. As I see it, it's a religious war. What is going to turn back ISIS? Little to actually 'debate' at this point. What is needed is leadership. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 I also agree with Grom. I support assisting anyone that wants a one-way ticket to join ISIS. When the last of the willing are gone we start shutting down mosques that promote terror and arresting/deporting those that recruit and promote violence. If there are any Muslims left after that we will finally be down to the 'good ones' we can live with. Then we can start to worry about what is going on in Syria. I've long felt that if the Crusades swept North Africa instead of going for Jerusalem they could have converted the fairly underpopulated region and driven out those that wouldn't convert. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-02-17 15:02 |
| #9 So very ironic. 12 years ago the US was up to its ears in the fight, and no one was willing to help. Fast forward and the rest of the world is finally catching on -- and the US has a Muslim president. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2015-02-17 09:41 |
| #8 I too agree with grom IF AND ONLY IF they keep it in the ME. We should encourage anyone from the ME to stay there and if they are here, go back there. As soon as they start trying to transplant that vile poison to another area push back twice as hard. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-02-17 09:16 |
| #7 First, I agree with grom. I see nothing wrong with radical sunni killing radical shi'ite. Second, anything Ed Schultz says is most likely scripted by the White House. He is incapable of an original thought. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2015-02-17 07:52 |
| #6 Maria Harf says we should create jobs for the ISIS Troglodytes but then again our State Department is infused through and through with idiots and they utter many inane things. State is the useful idiot for the other (ISIS). Recall that State insisted that Benghazi was the brainchild of some shmuck in California who made a video in his basement. Our country is so fu*#ed for the next year and a half. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-02-17 07:15 |
| #5 Well, not only have the French jumped onboard, now we have the ITALIANS talking about sending ground troops to Libya. Gee thanks fellas that's only four years too late. Anyway, seems every spineless socialist in Europe is deciding that ISIS is a major threat to their dreams of social paradise. Our leadership dances in about three different directions on everything. I think the time for grand speeches, complex thinking, and contemplation are over. Time to quit equivocating and do something. |
| Posted by: Mystic 2015-02-17 06:27 |
| #4 Have to find the backbone to first call it what it is instead of dancing away like Obama does. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-02-17 05:55 |
| #3 When PMSNBC starts saying things like this, essentially criticizing the foreign policy of a president they have dutifully carried water for over six years, it is to me significant. Schultz has been one of the oddest most irrational commentators on foreign policy and to have this moment of lucidity? DO you suppose this is the first step in a PR campaign to get the one off the hook for sending in combat troops without getting the leftists' panties in a wad? |
| Posted by: Mystic 2015-02-17 05:49 |
| #2 Always, always do it (or enable it to be done) there. Battling it there won't help if we also allow it to creep in here though. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-02-17 05:18 |
| #1 IMO, "The West" got it backwards. You should leave ME alone, and combat Islam in the West. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-02-17 03:12 |