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Title: Can A Dying Civilization Defeat ISIS and Radical Islam?
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... defeat-isis-and-radical-islam/
Published: Nov 27, 2015
Author: Tom Tancredo
Post Date: 2015-11-27 17:43:38 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 1663
Comments: 14
A bigger problem is we do not yet realize we are losing or why. Their legions are growing, their ambitions are apocalyptic, and our resolve is as strong as silly putty. Without question, our military is superior to any other on earth and we could inflict devastating damage to ISIS if we unleashed our military forces against them. But we are not going to do that—not today, not next month and not after the next atrocity strikes Cleveland, Phoenix or Richmond. If we are honest we must face a very dark and sobering fact: The outcome of this war is far from certain. We are proud of being a nation of can-do optimists, but we are also a nation in denial about a culture in a tailspin. Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade. In this besotted condition, we are ill equipped to fight an enemy full of passion, idealism and self-confidence. Islamist suicide bombers believe they are dying for a higher purpose, the greater glory of Allah. What, exactly, are our ideals? The freedom to enjoy pornography and polygamy and 24-hour pizza delivery? Then in our generation, along comes “multiculturalism” to teach that there are no superior cultures, only different ones. Witchcraft is as much a legitimate personal religion as Christianity or Buddhism if that is what turns you on, and polygamy is just another “lifestyle” with its own cable TV channel. The great Russian novelist Alexandr Solzhenitsyn saw this deepening hollowness in the West as a global development spanning five centuries, with Soviet Communism only a symptom of lost souls. In his Templeton Lecture in 1983, long before the rise of radical Islam, he warned: It has become embarrassing to state that evil makes its home in the individual human heart before it enters a political system. Yet it is not considered shameful to make dally concessions to an integral evil. Judging by the continuing landslide of concessions made before the eyes of our very own generation, the West is ineluctably slipping toward the abyss. ISIS and radical Islam have declared war on us not because of anything we have done—not because we are a friend to Israel and not because we have not yet toppled the bloody Syrian dictator Assad. ISIS and radical Islamists hate us for who we are. The irony is, we ourselves do not know who we are. The Chinese philosopher Sun Tsu said it best in The Art of War: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. ISIS hates the West as an abominable nest of infidels, infidels who reject the Quran and Shariah Law, and so must be annihilated. We are the obstacle to the new Caliphate. OKAY— got it: We stand against the Caliphate. But what do we stand for? What is our alternative ideal to the Islamist ideal? Radical Islam’s principles are out there for all to see if they open their eyes. But what are our principles? In truth, they are up for grabs. 
By any measure, we are losing the war against ISIS and radical Islam.
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Now this is an escalation in rhetoric. Obviously if Daesh acquires nuclear weapons that is a game changer and even a dying empire is capable of using nuclear weapons against them. So forgetting the rhetoric, what we have here is a problem of will. Where once there was coalition of the willing, now there is a coalition of the unwilling or the almost willing. Canada has bowed out, Australia won't commit further resources, the US won't put boots on the ground, France will bomb the crap out of them, so will Britain, Iraq isn't going to do anything but sit on their hands and Turkey's response is to shoot down Russian aircraft. The Kurds, well just maybe they will get Kurdistan afterall I think it is time we all went home rather than wasting our resources. Daesh will still be there next year, or maybe not. Coming into the northern winter noone is going anywhere, doing anything. For the Russians it must be like a summer holiday
Why have you adopted that word? I thought about using it then I thought about it. Maybe incorrrectly. Didn't they start using the word Daesh because they are saying that the Islamic State is not really islamic and they "hijacked" the religioh. If that is what the word means I would prefer to call the Islamic because ISIS is islamic. Islam is evil
It is actually an acromyn for the name of their organisation in arabic however the word when pronounced is an insult so that is why I use it, not to give them legitimacy but to insult them. Daesh: This is a term the militant group hates. It’s an Arabic acronym for “al- Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham.” It can sometimes be spelled DAIISH, Da'esh or Daech, a popular French version. The hacktivist group Anonymous and President Barack Obama have used the term since the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris. Thanks to Arabic wordplay, it could also be an insult. “Depending on how it is conjugated in Arabic, it can mean anything from ‘to trample down and crush’ to ‘a bigot who imposes his view on others,' I think is appropriate
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if Daesh
#14. To: A K A Stone (#5)
Why have you adopted that word?
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