Authority for War (On Terror?) Already in Place-Only the Quest for More Taxpayer Money Remains

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Feb 12, 2015 at 11:37

Dr. Pipes says: well put. This observer says what we are seeing is the next page of transformations being engineered for 2015, a metamorphosis in which the larvae of an impenitent ideology that sees death for a means to subjugate a world that once sought peace, but would not know what to do with it if were even possible to achieve it under the current circumstances. Under the auspices of the authority being sought by the Chief Executive of the American Administration, do not be looking for a peaceful solution there either.

The hostilities in the Middle East as sponsored by the leadership of the Iranian Revolution is a telling reveal of how the original prosecution of the 'war on terror' was itself brought under the 'transformation' of world issues, the United States initiatives to bring terror to a halt being undermined by an alternative dialogue of just who is the enemy. To hear the subliminal diatribe of the Chief Executive, it is not hard to understand that he believes America-not his version, but the version he abhors and apologizes for-is to be castigated and emasculated to a level in which he will have left his legacy conforming to the 'dreams of his father.'

The Chief Executive's earliest ambition of how to deal with Iran was spelled out prior to taking the oath he, the Candidate, would later violate in which ideological discussions with Iran were not out of the question; the true question being, how would he be able to convince Iran to be peaceable when the Iranian leadership is set on the proxy war of all proxy wars, and America following suit under the Candidate's purview? After declaring America was no longer (in his view) Christian, one can easily understand which belief system he would embrace by remembering that the Muslim persuasion is his preferred philosophical direction. That is most overtly evident now.

ISIS/ISIL/IS is now a tool in the larger geopolitical realm of things, the greater threat to Middle East peace being the 'Palestinian' application for the United Nation's Security Council authority to take the heart of Israel and leave nothing behind. By several astute observations, this is coupled with the 'negotiations' that will further ease the pressure on Iran in its nuclear ambitions and implementation of a caliphate utilizing ISIS/ISIL/IS as the screening tactic to move the action closer to Jerusalem. The authorization being sought from the American Congress is merely a funding request: the battles are already joined; only the funding remained in question, not the authority.

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