ISIS atrocities worse than ever; Canada ends mission

While Christian ["post-Christian", surely! Ed.] nations paused on the 11th to mourn and show respect for those who died to keep the world free from tyranny, racism [etc etc. Ed.], the Islamic extremists of ISIS pursued their jihad against Christians, Jews and all non-believers, including other Muslims.

In Lebanon, two suicide bombers blew themselves into Islamic smithereens, taking with them some four dozen other Muslims in a mainly Shi'ite quarter of Beirut. And in the Afghani province of Zabul, IS fighters beheaded seven ethnic Hazaras, who happen to be Shi'ites as well. The followers of the Prophet used razor wire to cut off the heads of four men, two women, and a child!

In Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, carrying coffins containing the bodies of the victims. Al Jazeera reports that the protesters, including women and men from Afghanistan's different ethnic groups - Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara - marched on the presidential tent ["palace", surely. Ed.] to urge the government to take action against rising violence against Afghan civilians.

Of course the Afghan government is pretty much powerless to do anything to or about ISIS or the Taliban, or al-Qaeda, or any of the bearded beheaders and bomb-throwers who infest not just their sandpit but the entire Middle East. That's why the US-led coalition is there, right? Because someone -- step forward President O -- thinks "we" bear some kind of responsibility for the wretched people of the armpit of the world.

Walt thinks the only responsibility America bears is that of having invaded the Middle East in the first place, during the reign of Bush I, thus exacerbating the instability and sectarian violence from which that region has always suffered and always will suffer, no matter what "we" do. Walt says it's time to go home and leave the Muslims to beheading and otherwise butchering each other. And may Allah have mercy on them.

UPDATE: Canada's new Liberal government (starring Justin Trudeau, now on screens across the Great Not-so-white North) has ordered its Defence Minister -- as Sikh! -- to end the combat mission in Iraq and Syria ASAP. Will the American forces miss their Canuck counterparts? Probably not as much as the Canucks would like to think. But at least they won't be pour any more dollars into the desert sands.

Why a Muslim American killed five American servicemen

Last October, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau and Martin Couture-Rouleau, Canadian converts to Islam, killed two Canadian soldiers. One was standing on ceremonial guard at the War Memorial in Ottawa. The other was walking to his car, parked near a strip mall near Montréal. Both were unarmed.

It took some time, and a lot of hemming and hawing, before Canada's self-styled Conservative -- but still politically correct -- government admitted that the killers were Muslim. More time passed before they finally disclosed that the "lone wolf shooters" may have been "influenced by ISIS". Surprise, surprise!

Last week, in Chattanooga, Muhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, killed four US Marines, a Navy sailor, and two other people, before being himself shot by police. Mr. Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait, but grew up in the USA and was by all accounts an unremarkable young man. He was, however, a Muslim, and distressed by the presence of American troops in his native land, not to mention the American "intervention" in the Muslim civil war now raging in the Middle East.

In, "Chattanooga shooter changed after Mideast visit, friend says", CNN tells us that a recent visit to the Middle East turned the late Abdulazeez into what the US government calls a "domestic terrorist". Surprise, surprise!

His friend, Abdulrazzak Brizada, told CNN that Mr. Abdulazeez had changed after spending time in the Middle East and "distanced himself" for the first few months after returning. "Something happened over there," Mr. Brizada said, adding that "he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas. ... I'm sure he had something that happened to him overseas."

The motive that links these three killers of US and Canadian servicemen is revenge. Informed and inspired by ISIS, they sought to visit the sins of the Obama administration (and Obama's lackeys in Canada, the UK, etc) on any Americans (or Canadians, Brits, etc) they could find -- punishment for America's failed foreign policy of meddling in affairs which are really none of its business.

As President O's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, said in a sermon in March of 2014, the chickens are coming home to roost. [This link takes you to a post here on WWW which contains an embedded video of Pastor Wright's sermon. If you're using Firefox, you'll need to activate Adobe Flash Player to see it. Ed.]

We turn now to Ron Paul's compendium of positions, ideas and ideals, Liberty Defined (Grand Central Publishing, 2011). In the chapter headed "Empire", Mr. Paul writes:

"It is not infrequently that I hear members of Congress express their unqualified opinion that it is only the hate-filled Muslim religion that is the source of our problems, and we must pursue the war on terrorism at all costs, even if it does mean preventive war.

"Some well-known neocons say they have never heard any other explanation than the religious hatred that they claim Islam generates. They stick to their argument that anyone who would suggest that our own policies contribute to suicide terrorism is committing virtual treason. Sadly, many Americans have been conditioned to believe this.

"Demagoguing, lying, or denying that no unintentional consequences or blowback result from our invasion, occupation, and bombing of other nations, especially Arab and Muslim countries, presents the greatest danger to our society, freedom, and prosperity."

Further reading: "Perry v. Paul: who's right about American involvement in foreign wars?"