America's responsibility for the ISIS problem.

[Fiannan]

Ben Swan provides excellent analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6kdi1UXxhY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Check what Wesley Clark has to say: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archive ... st-allies/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Well, we can thank the likes of Bush, Obama and Crazy John McCain for the horrific situation now tearing the Middle East apart. And why is the American media more focused on some gay actor in his underwear or Kim's behind than analyzing this issue?

[djinwa]

Good stuff. I just watched that last night.

Of course, the tribalists will never admit that any of our actions have caused a problem. The golden rule does not apply to our actions. As long as we are fighting muslims, all is well. And despite our every action making things worse, we'll get it right the next time, right? Just keep printing money to pay for it.

[Ezra]

If Kim's butt gets any bigger that's all anyone will be talking about as it will be in the face of everyone in the world.

I hear it has its own climate and w
Weather report already.

[inquirringmind]

Have you seen this?

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Islamic State militants are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and killing other youth, including by crucifixion or burying them alive, a United Nations watchdog said on Wednesday.

Iraqi boys aged under 18 are increasingly being used by the militant group as suicide bombers, bomb makers, informants or human shields to protect facilities against U.S.-led air strikes, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said.

"We are really deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially those belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities," committee expert Renate Winter told a news briefing. "The scope of the problem is huge."

Children from the Yazidi sect or Christian communities, but also Shi'ites and Sunnis, have been victims, she said.

"We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding," Winter told Reuters. "There was a video placed (online) that showed children at a very young age, approximately eight years of age and younger, to be trained already to become child soldiers."

Islamic State is a breakaway al Qaeda group that declared an Islamic caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq last summer. It has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, in what the United Nations has called a reign of terror.

On Tuesday, the group, which is also known as ISIL, released a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

The U.N. body, which reviewed Iraq's record for the first time since 1998, denounced "the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities by the so-called ISIL, including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive."

A large number of children have been killed or badly wounded during air strikes or shelling by Iraqi security forces, while others had died of "dehydration, starvation and heat," it said.

ISIL has committed "systematic sexual violence," including "the abduction and sexual enslavement of children," it said.

"Children of minorities have been captured in many places... sold in the market place with tags, price tags on them, they have been sold as slaves," Winter said, giving no details.

The 18 independent experts who worked on the report called on Iraqi authorities to take all necessary measures to "rescue children" under the control of Islamic State and to prosecute perpetrators of crimes.

"There is a duty of a state to protect all its children. The point is just how are they going to do that in such a situation?", Winter said. (Additional reporting by Marina Depetris; Editing by Crispian Balmer)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/0 ... 13578.html

Or the way Denver Snuffer and Tim Malone were attacked on this blog for suggesting all the world pray that Baghdad doesn't fall to ISIS?

[samizdat]

Just so you know, I didn't attack Snuffer for saying that.

[inquirringmind]

Just so you know, I didn't attack Snuffer for saying that.

Did I say you did?

Who are you?

If you posted comments under that topic heading on Tim's blog, what user name did you use?

[Fiannan]

How the heck is Snuffer associated with ISIS? =))

[samizdat]

He said that the Lord told him to pray and fast so that Baghdad does not fall, something along those lines.

On that issue he is right, albeit scripturally speaking, there is more danger for Ephraim if Damascus falls.

For the record I didn't nor do I post on the latterdaycommentary blog.

But just so that the people can see that I can recognize truth when I see it, not importing if it came from an excommunicated member.

Even Caiaphas had his moment of inspiration.