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Overcast ISIS and the Nazis
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Whither the Islamic State? That’s a real double-edged question: where is the group otherwise known as ISIS headed, and can the United States and other civilized nations make it shrivel up and die? The group is and has taken off like a bat out of hell, gobbling up territory and becoming a virtual murder machine. |
President Barack Obama’s speech on his plan to try to eliminate the ISIS threat could not have come soon enough for him and the Democrats. Obama’s perceived hesitancy in responding to ISIS’s threat has decimated the Democrats Party’s numbers on national security. And ISIS’s nearly gleeful beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff had a huge impact on Americans: a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found Americans paid more attention to those stories than any other over the past five years.
How fearful or angry are Americans? An ABC /Washington Post poll found 71 percent want air strikes against ISIS, 65 percent want expanded strikes and 74 percent of Republicans and 60 percent of Democrats want the strikes. Only 38 percent approved of Obama’s performance in foreign policy, an 8 point drop. Being the guy who got Osama bin Laden doesn’t do you much good if you’re now the guy whose name is becoming linked with the Democratic Party’s biggest modern failure as President, Jimmy Carter.
But it isn’t just the issue of bombing, striking back, and even protecting America’s homeland. The bottom line is ISIS is unlike anything the world has seen since the Nazis. And in terms of their mercilessness and sheer pride in butchering men, women and children, they are even outdoing the Nazis.
