Plantagenet wrote:Open up your eyes and accept the new reality---Obama has taken the US into a new war in both Iraq ----and also in Syria.
Things have ramped up a lot just today, in one day, on all fronts.
* French hostage held by muslim terrorists in Algeria; they threaten to behead him and video it, in support of ISIS
* German man now held hostage by muslim terrorists in Philliphines; again they aren't ISIS but say they swear allegiance to ISIS and are gonna behead this guy
So the above, is alarming.
Oil wells hit. Good job!
Then, Obama's speech at the UN. Speech was a little mixed up overall, but, it was a tough speech -- he's finding his feet as a wartime president:
Some echoes of "Axis of Evil," in Obama's speech, mixing in Russia and ISIL. He calls ISIL "the heart of darkness," in the next breath after essentially accusing Russia of trampling on little countries.
CNN showed the Russian delegation giggling, slapping their knees, and laughing during the Russia part.
Russian aggression in Europe recalls the days when large nations trampled small ones in pursuit of territorial ambition. The brutality of terrorists in Syria and Iraq forces us to look into the heart of darkness.
It would take another World War to roll back the forces of fascism and racial supremacy, and form this United Nations to ensure that no nation can subjugate its neighbors and claim their territory.
Russia’s actions in Ukraine challenge this post-war order. Here are the facts. After the people of Ukraine mobilized popular protests and calls for reform, their corrupt President fled. Against the will of the government in Kiev, Crimea was annexed. Russia poured arms into Eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands. When a civilian airliner was shot down from areas that these proxies controlled, they refused to allow access to the crash for days. When Ukraine started to reassert control over its territory, Russia gave up the pretense of merely supporting the separatists, and moved troops across the border.
This is a vision of the world in which might makes right – a world in which one nation’s borders can be redrawn by another, and civilized people are not allowed to recover the remains of their loved ones because of the truth that might be revealed. America stands for something different. We believe that right makes might – that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones; that people should be able to choose their own future.
These are simple truths, but they must be defended.