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| World War III - The free world vs. radical Islam |
| 2015-11-16 |
| [US Defense Watch] ISIS and radical Islam have declared war on anyone who believes in the cause of freedom. This is World War III. ISIS knows it. Does President Obama? Does Prime Minister Cameron? Does Chancellor Merkel? Does President Hollande? As ISIS attacks Paris, Obama wants to ship in 100,000 Syrians who can't be vetted and Merkel speaks of tolerance. Obama, Cameron, Hollande, Merkel: the names don't exactly denote fortitude do they? Hollande just hit ISIS with 20 bombs and is sending an aircraft carrier to the region. It's a good start. It's a jab, a pin prick of what needs to be done. What Hollande should do is invoke Article V of the NATO Charter, which states, "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area." What needs to be done is not for the faint-hearted. It is what nations do during world wars. It is total war and whether anyone wants to admit or not, that is what we must wage, a ruthless, vicious war. This is a time for real leadership and for men and women made of steel. Sadly, the West has no Churchills, no De Gaulles, no Thatchers, no Reagan's to call upon, to take the helm, to lead us all to victory. We are left with wallflowers, when we need warriors. Israel does have Netanyahu. Notice how ISIS hasn't hit Israel yet. Netanyahu is a friend, the best of friends and he can help. Putin is a tough customer, a roughneck in a silk suit. He's just what the doctor ordered in the fight against ISIS. He needs to become an ally in World War III, not someone we're rehashing Cold War arguments with. We can worry about Latvia another time. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 It is important to correctly identify the enemy for appropriate target selection. The enemy is not ISIS the organisation. The enemy is Islamist fascism the ideology that wants a Caliphate through sharia. If you target ISIS alone, another bunch of letters will take its place just like IS replaced al qaeda. If you declare war on the Caliphate you can go after EVERY islamist fascist. Every group and individual that promotes the caliphate through sharia. Then and only then will you get them all Then you will pull the weed up by the roots Ban sharia. Use treason laws. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2015-11-16 23:18 |
| #9 AlanC has it right. This is an existential battle between Islam - all of it - and non-Islam. It is a battle of annihilation, and only one side is actively fighting it right now. Those of us on the civilized side of the divide watch the internecine warfare between the different flavors of Islam, and marvel at the sheer fortuitousness of that combat. Our enemy is so f%@&ing evil that it cannot restrain itself from slaughtering its own kind. But - the civilized world needs to step up its game. Muslims are breeding like cockroaches, and are - as I write - pouring into the west like an evil plague. Allowing this is the height of madness. This battle of annihilation will continue for generations to come. The western mindset needs to change, and to recognize the enemy -Islam - all of it - for what it is: a violent death cult. Unless we get serious, and start containing the contagion to the wastelands from where it originated, then at the incoming turn of 22nd Century, I fear that there will only be small, isolated pockets of free men left on Earth, muttering among themselves: "Back at the dawn of the 21st Century, what in God's name were our ancestors THINKING to have allowed this unholy pestilence to have spread around the world without meaningful, resistance?" |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2015-11-16 20:34 |
| #8 ..and if you want to throw in the expeditions to Haiti, the Cape, and that little side show the Yanks call the War of 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars then that would be WWIII with 'WWI' being WWIV. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-11-16 19:35 |
| #7 The 7 Years War and the expansion of the American War of Independence to include other European powers encompassed Europe, the Western Hemisphere, and the Indian sub-continent. So, yes, technically, WWI was pretty much WWIII. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-11-16 19:33 |
| #6 ....Just as a topic of conversation, some historians feel that if a World War is defined as a war where most or all of the major powers on Earth are involved, we're actually up around WWV or VI. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2015-11-16 18:56 |
| #5 #4 hear, hear |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-16 17:25 |
| #4 If only. More like The Free World against itself, with Islam ready to pick up the pieces. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2015-11-16 17:03 |
| #3 It is FIFY |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-11-16 16:35 |
| #2 Hate these half ass titles. It is fundimentalist Islam. From a pure historical perspective following Moohamhead's murderous examples and teachings. I would hope the Rantburg posters would fix this PC poop in the future. |
| Posted by: Mike Mann 2015-11-16 15:31 |
| #1 A quibble. We won WW III when the Soviet Union collapsed. WW III actually started before WW I even ended, with British & US troops fighting the new Red Army in Russia, that part of the war didn't end until about 1919. This would be WW IV. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-11-16 15:30 |