Discussion: Why Some Jihadists Consider Donald Trump To Be The Perfect Enemy

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This is not news – many, including Obama, have been saying this for quite some time.

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This reminds me of the 1860’s, when the British and French had to deal with Confederate terrorists and CSA YouTube videos. Remember when Prime Minister Smith blocked tourists from North Carolina from entering at the port of London? It took four years of bloody fighting for the USA get that under control.

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Actually, I don’t. I wasn’t born until much later. :smiley:

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Another great independently researched article! None of the information is surprising, but it is good to have it sourced.

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"You enter this world when you’re looking at it, where a lot of it is completely illogical in terms of the linear posing of what’s out there,” said Smyth, who also runs the blog Hizballah Cavalcade. “Whatever fits their messaging, they will use and twist and develop.”

Wait…What? Isn’t this the Drumpf campaign he’s describing?

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This whole line of reasoning should be avoided because our long, bipartisan track record of choosing sides in the Middle East, is just too poor. Military and political leaders make decisions based on their best guesses who wants what, where, when, why and how. But their best guesses aren’t very good! The result is a long history of attempts to clean up the messes created by previous attempts.

Fighting IS is already spread all over, the typical terrorist “network”. IS as an enemy is very much the same as the Comanches were when an infant Texas was trying to get rid of them. No one in our government at that time had a clue that in fact, the Comanches were a highly diverse, widely spread out tribe of various smaller factions, all the same language and people, but varying in territory covering all of the plains, but especially the southern and western plains into CO. Often, those Texans and others thought they’d had the Comanches defeated when, in fact, they’d only wiped out a small segment, enraging the rest of them even more. This is what happens when the government such as ours is lead by really ignorant people like Obama and dubya. These “leaders” think they got it covered when, in fact, they remain clueless because IS and Comanches had / have no center or overall leader. That is why ground wars and air wars are useless, and only spread the threat and danger and don’t deal with it effectively. The Comanches were the last great Native American “tribe” / (tribal organization of many factions) to be wiped out in North America by the USA government, for the same reasons as IS is very difficult to “defeat”, and never will be defeated by current conventional warfare. Obama / dubya stamp their foot into the mud puddle, and spread the mud, making things even worse. That’ll continue to happen until a realistic strategy emerges. America is not set up, militarily, then or now, to deal effectively with worldwide terrorism. The consciousness is blind, not perceptive to reality, or just plain wants to further enrich our Wehrmacht, no matter the karma / backlash. It’s the money that matters to the Wehrmacht, not the defeat or victory, witness the classic recent case of Viet Nam.

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The Internet in general and dark web sites in particular, where anyone can cheaply and anonymously publish whatever ridiculous nonsense they care to make up, should be considered the least trustworthy source of what the terrorists want! Except for my posts, of course, which should totally be taken seriously.

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Of course, this will only endear Trump to the neo-cons that pulled Bush’s strings and got this whole middle eastern mess going. They too want an ‘excellent’ war with lots of profits to be had and recruiting of our easily persuaded dupes.

Yes, the conservatives have much in common with ISIL and the jihadists. So, while they pretend to be turned off by Trump, their inner war wishes are what really rule them and they are ‘praying’ for him in reality.

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Donny has energized a whole bunch of wackos and plenty of them are right wing Christian Militia kooks right here in the USA who want to spring the Bundys from jail!

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“The greatest enemy. The most fabulous enemy. The best enemy. You won’t believe what a great enemy I make.”

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And lo, Jesus assembled his disciples and said:

We’re gonna hit Rome so hard you wouldn’t believe it. Okay? The way to spread the word is to build a wall around us to keep Romans out.

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Donald Trump: Candidate of ISIS and the KKK.

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As if there was ever any doubt, now we have proof that a win for Trump means the terrorist win.

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“His anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, and anti-Muslim rhetoric totally validates ISIS claims that Muslims are unwelcome in Europe and the U.S., and that they would be better off living in its so-called caliphate,” she said. “ISIS exploits these inflammatory statements to mobilize its supporters around the idea that the West—and America in particular—is hostile to Islam."

 

18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

Obama and Clinton go out of their way to avoid using incendiary rhetoric that the jihadis can use for recruiting purposes while Trump, Cruz, and the rest of the Christianists excoriate them for this and broadcast to the world exactly the sort of things tailor-made for jihadist recruiting. Is it possible to declare the Republican Party a criminal organization?

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And the Romans are going to pay for it.

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So do we start with the local criminal enterprises that feed the criminal organization or go for the top down?

Anything to hasten the apocalypse, amirite fundies (including but not limited to the jihadi kind)?

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Don’t forget North Korea.

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