Isis, another dilemma my friends

Isis has killed 2 Americans, 1 British and 1 Frenchman using the inhumane method of beheading. These atrocious acts fired up the world.
Fired up enough to gain bipartisan support in the U.S. Support for arming some other potential terrorists in an effort to eliminate these nasty dudes and the imaginary threat to the U.S. Did I say bipartisan support? Yes I did, just wanted to repeat it so we totally grasp this amazing event. Almost reminds me of when we invaded Iraq with enthusiastic support of flag waving American patriots.
Now back on point.
One of our allies in this effort, Saudi Arabia, beheads criminals as a standard practice in criminal punishment. Some of these beheadings are for crimes that would not be considered for death penalty punishment based on U.S. standards. This of course creates the dilemma, how can we condemn these acts when they are being performed on a regular basis by our allies?
And to further confuse the situation we have to wonder if executions in the U.S. are to be considered humane. Or France’s use of the guillotine for executions as late as 1977. You know, killing a human by different methods does get the same results, they all end up dead.
Tell me now my friends, why the angst and volatile reaction over the beheadings?
We must also take into consideration that we are now aiding Syria’s dictator Assad. A man we wanted out less than one year ago.
Tell me also why we are doing this.
You don’t think it has anything to do with the military-industrial complex and the complicity of the main stream media do you?

6 thoughts on “Isis, another dilemma my friends

  1. Another interesting question given the US obsession with Middle East terrorism which continues to bother me: why is Saudi Arabia our snuggle bunny ally when 15 of the 19 hijack pilots were citizens of Saudi Arabia? The others were from the United Arab Emirates (2), Egypt and Lebanon – none of these were or are targets of the US military. Yet we attacked Iraq in the name of retaliation for 9/11 and seem to be permanently pissed off at Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. Could it be the oil? Could the foot-dragging going on in Congress & the White House regarding seriously implementing an alternative energy program have anything with oil and kickbacks? Could the US, in all honesty, not be considered to be the true terrorists? If any other county had attacked the US for its natural resources, wouldn’t we respond in kind? And why are the American people so easily manipulated into believing MSM lies? And since the guillotine was mentioned, my sympathies are with Madame Defarge and the whole French Revolution. “Let them eat cake” sounds a lot like the sentiments of the 1% doesn’t it?

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      • You mentioned the barbarity of beheading. I think that the barbarity of Abu Ghraib and the continuing barbarity of Guantanamo is worse than any beheadings which at least are over swiftly.
        Abraham Lincoln in an address he gave before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield (one of the leading forces in the cultural activity of Springfield), Illinois, on January 27, 1838 said:
        “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction were our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
        What a profound statement! If America is to be destroyed, it won’t be from without, but from within.

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