Something good happened this week: American special ops military forces trapped ISIS caliphate holy leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a Syrian cave and, like Adolph Hitler, the ruthless megalomaniac killed himself rather than surrender.
Kudos to our brave military men and determined intelligence officers who made this happen, and congratulations to the Trump Administration for a job well done!
Successes have been few for Donald Trump of late, so our Commander-in-Chief used the occasion to punch-up the achievement as only he can do. In a 50-minute press conference from the White House, the President related that he watched the event live in the Situation Room and that al-Baghdadi went “whimpering and crying and screaming all the way” to his death, which the terrorist hastened by igniting a suicide vest.
(BTW, since there were only dogs chasing al-Bagdhadi deep into the boxed off tunnel, with our SEAL team lagging behind, it is doubtful that any human being heard al-Bagdhadi “wimpering”, “crying”, and “screaming”. The American public can now expect another slew of lying officials who will try to cover for our President’s latest distasteful exaggerations.)
President Trump then went on to boast, of course, that Baghdadi’s demise was “bigger” than the killing of Osama bin Laden (who was responsible for the 9/11 catastrophe) during the Obama Administration, as if the demise of ISIS signals the end of America’s war against Islamic terrorism.
Hardly: we just killed one deranged terrorist.
Just as the killing of Osama bin Laden didn’t destroy Al Queda, it is unlikely that the elimination of al-Baghdadi means the end of the ISIS folks. Both Al Queda and ISIS jihadists are Sunni Muslims, and their primary foes are (a) Shia Muslims, and (b) the United States and it’s friends in the Middle East. The Taliban, who are fundamentalist Sunni Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan, also proclaim “Death to America!”.
Although the physical ISIS caliphate has been destroyed, the remnants of its army of blood-thirsty hooligans will likely join up with other jihadists in the Middle East and the horn of Africa. Al-Bagdhadi will be replaced with another lunatic leader with an agenda of hate.
Don’t forget that ISIS emerged to feast on the political vacuum created in Iraq with the demise of Sadaam Hussein. Remember George W’s famous victory proclamation, “Mission Accomplished”? It turned out that President Bush killed off one cockroach and another filthy one, possibly more blood-thirsty, emerged.
So much for high-fiving ourselves.
Minus Bin Laden, Al Queda is currently giving Saudi Arabia fits in Yemen and is practically in control of Somalia. The Taliban, once seemingly vanquished in Afghanistan, are about to re-assert control of that country. Hamas, a Sunni muslim terrorist group, and Hezbollah, a Shia Sunni group, have spent the past three decades attempting to make life difficult for Israel, another U.S. ally.
These guys aren’t going anywhere: it’s their land, and Muslims have been fighting infidels and each other for roughly 1,600 years without pause.
The United States has spend trillions of dollars attempting to bring stability to the Middle East for the past 50 years, and we don’t have much to show for it. Neither does Iran (which funds Shia terrorist groups) nor Saudi Arabia (which funds Sunni terrorist groups). Regional powers like Turkey and Russia now seem to want to take America’s place as the designated whipping boy in the minds of the folks who live in the Middle East.
One of President Trump’s campaign themes was “get the U.S.A. out of there!”
I agree. Let’s get the Hell out, now, and let those idiots have at each other.
We’ve done enough, and, besides, we’ve got plenty on our plate back in America.