Clearly, one of the finest Leftist thinkers extant in DC. Thank God she displayed her verbal and critical thinking prowess for all to see recently, at the behest and direction of the US Department of State.
BZ
Marie Harf, Rhodes scholar:
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ISIS burn 45 people to death in captured Iraqi town
“We need answers that go beyond military answers,” so says US Vice President Joe Biden.
Jobs, Joe? Should the US hire ISIS for various jobs?
I can think of one job, offhand: close-up muzzle inspectors for US M-4 rifles deployed in the Middle East.
Once again, the loving kindness of Islam, the Religion of Peace. From UKDailyMail.com:
ISIS burn 45 people to death in captured Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi as Islamists attack the homes of security forces’ families
by Kate Pickles
- Western town al-Baghdadi captured by ISIS fighters last week
- Victims thought to be members of security forces and their families
- Follows barbaric video of Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh
- Attack is only five miles from air base with 320 US Marines
Militants from Islamic State have burned 45 people to death in the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, according to the local police chief.
Col Qasim al-Obeidi said the motive was unknown but he believed some of the victims were members of the security forces.
He has pleaded for help from the government and international community and said the compound, which houses the families of security personnel and local officials, was now under attack.
It follows the capture of al-Baghdadi, near Ain al-Asad air base, by ISIS fighters last week.
ISIS marches across the Middle East, and we have a president who cannot even name the enemy because of his background and his upraising. Obama is still warring with Christianity because of the Crusades — started because of Islamic oppression.
You cannot hope to defeat an enemy you don’t even admit exists.
And here’s where things become concerning:
Al-Baghdadi had been besieged for months by Islamic State fighters before its fall. It had been one of the few towns to still be controlled by the Iraqi government in Anbar province, where IS and allied Sunni Arab tribesmen launched an offensive in January 2014.
But with 320 US Marines stationed just five miles away at the Ain al-Asad air base, training members of the Iraqi army’s 7th Division, it will cause concern.
The base was attacked by several suicide bombers, on Friday with the militant repelled by Iraqi troops backed by US-led coalition aircraft.
How long until our own ME troops come across ISIS?
And, with that battle, how will our president respond?
Will he buttress and support those troops?
Or will he treat those initial troops as he treated Benghazi?
Just one simple question.
When you cannot name your enemy. And Eric Holder says “we’re not at war.”
Italy now wonders when ISIS will come to its shores.
Libya is just 109 miles away from the island of Lampedusa and 300 miles from Sicily—made worse by a 64 percent increase in illegal migrant arrivals by sea since last year. In all of 2014, more than 170,000 people arrived from Libya and Turkey, the highest number ever recorded. Last weekend, as the embassy staff made their way to Italy on a mercantile ship, 2,164 migrants left the same Libyan shores en route to Sicily. The week before, more than 300 people were lost in the same seas as their rickety fishing boats capsized before rescuers could save them.
Still and all, it’s all purple skies and ignorant shitsticks at our State Department:
And just as Marie Harf is ending each sentence in an upswing like a good Valley Gurl, our own Miss Mary is, well, you guessed it:
Please. Please. Can someone please locate at least one adult in DC?
Please?
BZ
A message signed with blood:
To the nation of the cross.
It took quite some time to locate the actual unedited message sent around the globe by ISIS, showing, in quite a seriously-produced, edited and professional video — for all that it matters — the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians adjacent a lapping Libyan ocean.
ISIS wants you to know that it has the money and the time to make as professional and disturbing a video as possible for today’s jaded audiences. Except that this is not Hollywood and these are not actors and there are no special effects here.
There is only naked butchery at the behest of and in the name of Islam.
Let me repeat: in the name of Islam.
Not Christianity, not Buddhism, not Shinto, not Judaism.
Take it away Islam, the Religion of Peace:
There you have it, lovingly produced in HD from the Islamic State, courtesy of Islam.
So tell me, my dear readers, that I am such a Religionist for having displayed such a depravity. And a depravity it is.
Why would I do this with no warning of the video’s content?
Simple.
You need to see the true face of Islam as practiced today. Not as espoused, not as wanted, not as dreamed-of, but as actually practiced in today’s Middle East.
Just as we need to see the video and photographs of what happened to those persons 
who jumped from the World Trade Center twin towers on 9/11, as they smashed onto the cold, hard concrete below. Those videos exist. We, as a nation, need to see them.
Ah yes, Islam, the religion of peace, tolerance, understanding, all-inclusive and loving.
BZ
Obama: comparing ISIS to the Crusades
Obama continually — as do other Islam apologists — conflates and compares ISIS to the Crusades. As in: Islam vs Christianity, with Christianity the abject and utterly violent loser and Evildoer in the equation.
This specious argument couldn’t be more wrong.
Megyn Kelly weighs in:
After that, this video in a more concise version:
And finally, the full 22 minute video:
They are right. Words matter. And when Obama speaks before any group and there are TelePrompters involved, the words Mr Obama speaks have been vetted and parsed and sifted with the greatest amount of care possible. When he says this, he means this.
Which is why when Obama refers to “people (who) committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” he’s speaking about Christians in the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.
This age-old saw is the first trotted out by Muslim apologists. The major historical problem people don’t much seem to consider is: the Crusades occurred 800 years ago, and the inquisition was 600 years ago.
Since then, the blood and death and violence involving religion has been at the hands of Muslims, in the name of Islam. Not Christianity.
“Everything he does is to minimize what’s happening, to hold us back and to essentially deny the gravity of what’s happening. That’s why today he had to compare it to the Crusades and to the Inquisition, which is simply astonishing. Mr. President, the Crusades were 800 years ago, and the Inquisition 500 years ago. What’s happening right now is not Christians on the march. It is radical Islam.”
“The only reason Obama got involved with ISIS in the first place was precisely the public reaction to the video beheading of the two Americans,” said Krauthammer. “If that hadn’t happened, he never would have stirred himself.”
Mr Krauthammer is entirely correct.
Obama still can’t say “Islamic terror.” And ISIL is not Islamic, according to Mr Obama.
BZ
Jordan does as promised
From YahooNews.com:
Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot’s death
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan hanged two Iraqi jihadists, one a woman, on Wednesday in response to an Islamic State video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage by the hard-line group.
Islamic State had demanded the release of the woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, in exchange for a Japanese hostage whom it later beheaded. Sentenced to death for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack in Amman, Rishawi was executed at dawn, a security source and state television said.
Just as I indicated yesterday, Jordan wasted no time in responding to the released ISIS video showing captured Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh literally set on fire in a metal cage and burned alive.
It would appear that Jordan’s King Abdullah, unlike Mr Obama, can not only name Islamic terror, but can do something about it.
BZ