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I don't know if this was posted before but it is the first time I've seen it and I am really shocked. A
Fox "news" host interviews students from HARVARD about who is the biggest threat to world peace, ISIS or America.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)A Solution: Follow ISIS money, and shut it down.
Where is ISIS getting its money? Up to 100,000 ISIS fighters are funded by Gulf State donors, identified in the past as being from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. Fully equipping and providing for one modern combat-ready soldier can cost $850,000 to $1,000,000 a year. ISIS army could be gaining $85 billion to $100 billion a year from various sources. We can either commit the U.S. military to another war, and the U.S. to further risk of impending attacks through the genesis of a new crusade, or we can fight this threat with intelligent power and high technology.
The administration must identify the specific sources of ISIS money, the individuals, the nations and the means of transfer, and shut them all down. It must sanction countries and individuals, tie up their bank accounts and commercial activities, freeze their assets and cancel their credit cards. Send platoons of accountants from the Treasury Department and the IRS into the fray, not platoons of U.S. soldiers. The U.S. must track oil sales, sales of antiquities and other valuables. Anyone involved in any transactions of any kind with ISIS must be identified and sanctioned.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/11/open-letter-to-members-congress-about-authorization-to-use-military-force/
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...his whole little speech was planned, signed, sealed and delivered.
Fox News: Making cockroaches feel like Gods.
Thav
(946 posts)and act like it's a bad thing. They revere ignorance and hold it as a badge of honor.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)And without our troops, there would be no beer.
rgbecker
(4,806 posts)Saddam's ex army guys are the military minds behind the ISIS. GW Bush and the Americans that followed him turn out to be the "Greatest threat to the Middle East."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/06/19/323691052/saddams-ex-officer-weve-played-key-role-in-helping-militants
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)panfluteman
(2,055 posts)Asking the students to choose which is worse, between the US or ISIS makes the false and misleading assumption that the two are unrelated. The Harvard students saw through that smokescreen and told it like it is - our actions and policies in the Middle East, specifically the Iraq War - CREATED ISIS! This whole pathetic exercise was just a contrived setup to rally the conservative choir behind the Fox "News" hosts and their hypocritical pseudo-patriotic posing and name calling. But how many of our former friends and allies in the region have been turned into monsters at the convenience of US imperialism? The obvious ones, for starters, are Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Imperialistic pseudo-patriotism needs to create bad guys, then wars to go after them, whereas real patriotism is the natural, spontaneous desire of a citizen to do something good for his or her country, even in the absence of a manufactured war or crisis.
In this pathetic, hypocritical exercise, Fox "News" is obviously taking advantage of the natural sincerity and idealism of young people. I'd like to give one tip to the Harvard students when anyone else approaches them with a microphone and a TV camera: Ask them who they work for, who they represent. And then adjust your response accordingly...