This rings horrifically similar to the brutal killing of Daniel Pearl by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Pakistan 12 years ago, and comes shortly after the horrific mass genocide of the men of over 175 families in Kocho, Iraq (and kidnapping their women and children under 12). How should the US respond to this situation? How does this compare to prior jihadist terrorist actions? What geopolitical implications will this have?
Unfortunately nothing will happen , the pres has not even bothered to comment and if he does it will be his "we cannot allow this" rhetoric followed by zero action.
Or rather, if we do do something, this incident should have zero influence on that decision. Random American journalist who volunteered to wander around a warzone getting killed isn't worth going to war over.
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I happen to agree with this statement, he should no business going into Syria. No matter what flag you choose to take, you also accept the risk of being in a bad part of town.
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Well, I can't speak for Saudi Arabia or Iran, but I am talking about for peaceful, western Muslims, that have no allegiance with ISIS or terrorism whatsoever and that condemn it just as much as you and I. I don't think they have any special responsibility solely because their Religion is in broad terms based on some similar history.
Governments have their own reasons, often contradictory ones within their own ranks, and global politics is a complicated and confusing thing, with ramifications often not clear (imo not even to the highest people in charge), so I am sure some people want ISIS to create their own state for whatever reasons, but we shouldn't paint all muslims with one brush, many of them, probably most in Europe and America, have no connection to or sympathy for Islamic terrorism whatsoever.
We should continue doing what we're doing now - bombing them and acting as support for the local forces who are fighting against them. No need to engage in full scale warfare with these creatures.
Why would 'Christian' nations have a special obligation to deal with them?
It isn't a Muslim thing, it's a matter of regional and global security. Countries like SA, Jordan, Iran, and Turkey should do all they can to combat ISIS because ISIS is a direct threat to them and to the region, not because they're 'Muslim' nations and they have to clean up their 'own' messes.
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Agreed, or send in Delta or Seals for quick missions.
What I don't get is why they have not bombed the training camps yet, and where they are getting the people and resources to continue after devastating loses.
How was I taking it out of context? You were suggesting that Christian nations would have a special obligation to deal with Christian fundamentalist terrorists.
True or not: you believe Muslim nations have a special obligation to deal with Muslim terrorism because they're Muslim? If this isn't what you're saying, then your hypothetical comparison is meaningless.
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Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
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Looking at you.
They should excommunicate them or whatever Muslims do. If a Buddhist goes around killing people in the name of Buddhism, every Buddhist organization in the world should excommunicate him. The only people who can take their religious angle away is other Muslims. No one else can do that. So, true it is all of the Muslim nations in the world that have a special obligation to deal with Muslim terrorism because they're Muslim.
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