Now They're Coming for the Christians

Now They’re Coming for the Christians

Commentary by Sanford D. Horn

February 27, 2015

            “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
            Because I was not a Socialist.

            Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— 
            Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

            Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— 
            Because I was not a Jew.

            Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” – Martin Niemoller

With all the comparisons of ISIS/ISIL/the Islamic State to the Nazis it is more than appropriate to quote the German Protestant pastor Martin Niemoller (1892-1984), who as an openly anti-Hitler individual, “spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.” (www.ushmm.org)  This quote can be seen vividly on a wall in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a museum of which I am proud to be a charter member.

Western Civilization burns and Barack Obama fiddles a la Nero, unwilling to call the enemy what they are, Muslim extremists and/or radical Islam, when they themselves are praising Allah’s name while committing their heinous acts of barbarism and butchery. Fox News analyst Col. Ralph Peters traversed one step further in calling Obama “the reincarnation of Pontius Pilate washing his hands, but the blood’s not coming off.”

“He does nothing,” said Peters of Obama. But Obama is not the only one sitting idly by. Where is the Italian army? After all, the ISIS terrorists announced they are heading toward Rome. As the ISIS bid for a global caliphate continues to spread with little resistance it is further incumbent upon the United States to step up. It’s a small menu – either fight ISIS over there, or fight them here on American soil.

Make no mistake, according to James Comey, Director of the FBI, there are already ISIS or ISIS-linked terror animals in each of the 50 states of the union. (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/26/fbi-director-isis-tentacles-reach-into-all-50-u-s-states/) This is the same James Comey, Director of the FBI that was inexplicably and foolishly excluded from Obama’s invitation list for the summit countering violent extremism held earlier this month. (http://sanfordspeaksout.blogspot.com/2015/02/summing-up-summit-three-days-wasted.html)

Where is the global outcry, and more importantly, the physical response as the slaughter of Christians, Jews, journalists, even other Muslims is ratcheted up by the barbaric animals killing in the name of their bastardized version of a so-called religion of peace? More like a religion of pieces as the beheadings of Coptic Christians, the immolations of Christians and Muslims who refuse to cow-tow to these degenerate beasts continue on a grand scale. And let’s not forget the butchering of the Christian children watching a soccer match simply because they would not disavow themselves of their belief in Christ.

And even after the identification of one of the worst of these murderous animals, this Jihadi John, a.k.a. Mohammed Emwazi, an upper middle class, educated Kuwaiti-Brit; do State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf and Obama still want to offer jobs to these degenerates? What about the 10 year old girl who detonated a suicide bomb in Nigeria? Does she need a job? Perhaps an afterschool paper route. What about the rapes of nine year old girls who are sold into sex slavery? How about the selling of organs of their victims as another way to fund their murderous activities? Is this a religion of peace? Recruits as young as five years old are videotaped in uniforms with firearms bigger than they are as they are indoctrinated into a world of hate, slaughter, and death that they couldn’t possibly understand.

Even NBC, a network that has been carrying Obama’s water since he announced for the White House in 2007, has taken to calling ISIS “evil.” (It’s about time.) Yet Obama remains paralyzed.

Threats have been made against some of the shopping malls in the United States including the Mall of America in the Minneapolis area, home of the largest Somali-American community. The war is being brought to our front doorsteps. Additionally, thousands of people from France, Jordan, Morocco, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia are leaving their home countries to join ISIS.

Earlier this week three residents of Brooklyn were arrested in New York City for plotting to go to Syria and join ISIS – one of whom offered to kill Obama if asked to do so. For planning to wage war against the United States, they should have their passports invalidated and be tried as enemies of the state.

They are coming for the Christians because Christians are people of the cross, as the Muslim murderers have declared. They are coming for the Christians because there are almost no Jews left in the territories upon which these Muslim extremists are preying – after all they are not doing any real praying. They are coming for the Christians simply because they are Christians.

In addition to the rampant slaughter of women, children, and Christians of any sect, these barbarian Muslim extremists are destroying churches, museums, and the antiquities of a faith and civilization that spans more than two millennia.

There is only one answer to end the siege of Muslim extremism and the global caliphate sought by ISIS/ISIL – death. Not negotiation, not sitting around singing kum-by-ya, but death – evisceration, eradication – death by any other name will be just as effective – and now. Now – before ISIS/ISIL is marching down Main Street, USA.

Countries with ISIS or affiliate activity: Afghanistan, Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Philippines, and Syria (www.foxnews.com)

Jewish population by country:

Afghanistan – one

Algeria – 50-75 (as of 2013)

Indonesia – “Today, only about 20 Jews live in Indonesia.” (2014 – Population 252 million)

Iraq – “Today the Jewish community in Iraq is non-existent.”

Lebanon – “Today there are few if any Jews remaining in Lebanon.”

Libya – zero (as of 2013)

Pakistan – “Today there is no recognizable Jewish community left in the country.”

Philippines – about 100 (as of 2014)

Syria – fewer than 100 (as of 2014)

Source: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org

Christian population by country:

Afghanistan – 30,000 – 0.1 percent of the national population as of 2010

Algeria – 60,000 – 0.2 percent

Indonesia – 21.2 million – 8.8 percent

Iraq – 270,000 – 0.9 percent

Lebanon – 1.6 million – 38.3 percent

Libya – 170,000 – 2.7 percent

Pakistan – 2.76 million – 1.6 percent

Philippines – 86.8 million – 93 percent

Syria – 1.06 million – 5.2 percent

Source: www.pewforum.org

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.

Fund Homeland Security, Not Illegals

Fund Homeland Security, Not Illegals

Commentary by Sanford D. Horn

February 26, 2015

As the clock heads toward the zero hour to keep the Department of Homeland Security funded, the Republicans in the House and Senate have yet to learn how to lead by actually leading.

Senate Republicans have an excuse as they just took over the mantle of leadership less than 60 days ago. The House GOP does not enjoy that same luxury as they have been running the show, with little exception, for the better part of two decades.

The GOP must also remember that while in the minority of the Senate, rarely, if ever, did then Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) utter the word compromise. Acting as a pugnacious bulldog missing his bone, Reid was at best contentious toward his GOP opponents, at times downright rude and uncivil.

The Republicans in the House added a rider to the DHS funding bill that would disallow federal funding of Barack Obama’s executive orders pertaining to illegal aliens. Effectively this would quash the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents which had the purpose of protecting more than four million illegals from deportation. This new program was effective as of spring this year.

Another rider has the purpose of ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – an act providing relief for illegals brought to the United States when they were still children. In the case of both amendments, illegals would be granted permission to remain in the United States and apply for social security cards and work permits.

This is egregious on so many levels. Those persons in this country illegally have already broken the law and should have no rights to anything except a one way ticket back to their country of origin – after being photographed and finger printed – with the information stored in a data base. Should illegals return and get caught again, they should be incarcerated.

Additionally, illegals do not have the authority to work in the United States – something Obama seeks to change. Those hiring illegals should be fined the amount of a fulltime minimum wage worker’s salary times five. That should dissuade employers from hiring illegals and instead hire Americans – so many of whom are desperately seeking gainful employment.

Not only does the GOP possess a majority in both houses of Congress, they recently earned some support via the judiciary. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ordered a temporary halt to Obama’s executive orders pertaining to illegal immigration as outlined above. Hanen issued his order on Monday, February 16 which should have given the GOP some flexibility.

House Republicans could have removed the amendments pertaining to the illegals, sent a single-issue bill to the Senate, and that body would have passed the funding bill to keep DHS funded through September. But they did not because it was the smart  move to put the Democrats on the hook for either passing the bill to continue funding DHS and kill Obama’s immigration catastrophe, or vice versa, where the Democrats could keep Obama’s pet immigration programs at the cost of a partial shutdown of DHS.

The problem, however, is that the mainstream media is typically in cahoots with the liberals and the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Before long, the GOP was made to look like the demons for not wanting to fund Homeland Security in favor of ending Obama’s amnesty for more than four million illegals in this country. And because the GOP is running scared from the front, the Senate Republicans caved by removing the language pertaining to the elimination of Obama’s amnesty.

Two bright lights burn for the Republicans. On a single issue vote, DHS will receive its funding in time to prevent a partial shutdown. Let the record show that even in the case of a partial shutdown, all essential personnel remain on the job – this includes the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, FEMA, the Secret Service, and the Transportation Security Administration.

The other bright light comes from Maine Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican, who proposed a bill to defund Obama’s executive orders pertaining to amnesty for illegals.

While Judge Hanen’s order ceasing Obama’s immigration amnesty for illegals is temporary and Obama plans to seek a stay allowing his executive orders to be implemented, it is once again up to the American people to put pressure on the elected officials to thwart all efforts granting legal status to people in this country illegally. If this fails, a move to impeach Obama for unilaterally making law when it is not his job to do so will become necessary. A judge has said Obama has gone too far. If Obama ignores one branch of the government, it is up to the other branch of the government to rein him in – legally.

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.

Summing Up the Summit: Three Days Wasted

Summing Up the Summit: Three Days Wasted

Commentary by Sanford D. Horn

February 20, 2015

Barack Obama hosted a three day summit on countering violent extremism which seemed more like a student government meeting at a local high school. The cost was in the millions of dollars, was three days the attendees will never get back and an exercise in fecklessness.

Representatives from more than 60 nations participated in this summit which, from all prior description, was to be a study of both domestic and global terrorism. Sixty nations, yet James Comey, Director of the FBI was not invited. However, Comey’s Russian counterpart was in attendance. How a discussion pertaining to fighting domestic terrorism did not include the director of the FBI is nonsensical and shortsighted.

Who the summit also included was Salam Al-Malayati from the Muslim Public Affairs Council. It was Al-Malayati who said “Israel should be a suspect in the 9-11 attacks.” This is another example of with whom Obama associates. After all, one is the compendium of those with whom one associates.

This was yet another failed waste of time by Obama that achieved nothing – after all, he still has yet to address the enemy in the war on terror by its proper titles – Islamic extremism, Muslim extremism, radical Islam, and radical Muslims. It’s hard to fight an enemy when one cannot even identify the enemy. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld described the administration’s lack of a positive accomplishment as a “leadership vacuum.”

It was not a random attack in Paris when Jews in a kosher delicatessen were murdered. Forgive the stereotype, but who did Obama think would be shopping in a kosher deli mere hours prior to Shabbat? Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, and Francois-Michel Saada were Jewish, may their memories always be for a Blessing.

For nearly a week Obama did not recognize that the 21 Egyptians beheaded by ISIS were Coptic Christians, simply calling them Egyptian citizens. They were slaughtered not because they were Egyptian, but because they were Christian. May their memories always be for a Blessing. The leader who spoke in the video called their prey “The people of the cross… the followers of the hostile Egyptian Church…,” and “we will conquer Rome,” he continued in perfect English. The Muslim terrorist added that the slayings are “A message signed in blood to the nation of the cross.”

And while Obama remains intentionally obtuse about who the enemy is – actually Obama knows who the enemy is, he simply refuses to acknowledge what they are – this when the enemy calls themselves holy warriors and declaring itself THE Islamic State.

Obama did acknowledge that “We have to address the grievances these people express.” What grievances? The Muslim extremists who are carrying out the slaughter of innocent Christians, Jews, and other Muslims only seem to be hell bent on the destruction of Western Civilization and the creation of a global caliphate of loyal drones and minions. Do their grievances include not having enough money to carry out their barbaric deeds? Do their grievances include not being able to kill more people at a faster rate?

Or are we to believe words of Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson at the State Department who unfathomably said “We cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war.” Harf called for, and Obama agreed, getting to the root causes of the terror; that these animals simply are from poor families with disjointed upbringings, lacking education that simply need job opportunities. In reality, most of this terror class is educated and from middle class families who simply have bombastic and extreme views of their Muslim religion – a religion for which they commit their heinous acts of barbarism – according to their own claims.

Western Civilization is at war with Muslim extremists who are not seeking a sit-down, a conference call, or a negotiation. There is no kum-by-ya moment to be had here. This is an enemy that simply needs to be eradicated – eviscerated – destroyed – killed. If the United States does not take the lead on this all important operation, the dearth of leadership that will be felt globally will be vacuous.

While Jordan has gotten involved in a small way since the unfortunate incineration of one of its pilots at the hands of ISIS, that small country can’t do the heavy lifting. All countries where Islamo-terrorism has been a factor, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, not to mention virtually the entirety of the Middle East, should be participating in this war against a global caliphate.

But it is also time for the so-called moderate Muslims to step up to the plate. Recalling an emotional scene in the 1989 film Glory, featuring Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, Freeman’s character Rawlins says to Washington's Trip, “Gonna come a time when we all gonna hafta ante up. Ante up and kick in like men. LIKE MEN!”

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi understands this and delivered a brilliant speech before Al-Azhar University in Cairo on December 28, 2014.

“I am addressing the religious scholars and clerics… We must take a long, hard look at the situation we are in… I am referring not to ‘religion,’ but to ‘ideology’… It has reached the point that this [ideology] is hostile to the entire world… You cannot see things clearly when you are locked [in this ideology]. You must emerge from it and look from outside, in order to get closer to a truly enlightened ideology. You must oppose it with resolve. Let me say it again: We need to revolutionize our religion…       Honorable Imam, you bear responsibility before Allah. The world in its entirety awaits your words, because the Islamic nation is being torn apart, destroyed, and is heading to perdition. We ourselves are bringing it to perdition.”

Bold, brave, necessary words spoken by President Al Sisi. Words from which Obama can, should, and must learn and act upon.

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.

The Culture of Cheating and Lying

The Culture of Cheating and Lying

Commentary by Sanford D. Horn

February 12, 2015

First there was the New England Patriots NFL team, which earned the wrath of both sports fans and non-sports fans alike because of the message their issue with improperly deflated footballs sent, especially to impressionable children. Win at all costs and cheating does actually pay off.

Read “Pats Pigskin Peccadillo Simply Not Kosher,” here: http://sanfordspeaksout.blogspot.com/2015/01/pats-pigskin-peccadillo-simply-not.html and as noted, this was not the Patriots first rodeo where allegations of cheating are concerned.

Then there is the egregious spate of lying committed by soon to be former NBC Nightly News anchorman and managing editor Brian Williams. Having lied about being under enemy fire and shot at while part of a convoy of helicopters while on assignment in Iraq in 2003, Williams perpetuated his lies during an interview with David Letterman. Williams regaled his tall tale on social media as well, until a soldier assigned to Williams’ guard detail denied events occurred as Williams said. He then stumbled through an awkward attempt at an apology before announcing he was taking himself off the air – temporarily – until the matter could be cleared up.

Making matters worse for both Williams and NBC are the reports that he lied about seeing a dead body float past his French Quarter hotel while covering Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in August 2005. Confirmation that the French Quarter was not under water and in fact was predominantly dry once again lends credence to the notion that Williams’ words are suspect at best, damaging at worst.

By damaging, it is not just a distraction that Williams lied – not misspoke, not misremembered – after all he is not a member of the Obama administration, or Congress, or a candidate for president. As a member of the Fourth Estate Williams has a responsibility to provide credible, truthful news reports to the people and neither lie nor inject himself into the story. (As politicians were mentioned, one should wonder if Hillary Clinton’s lies about coming under sniper fire in 1996 while the then first lady visited Bosnia will come back to haunt her in a potential 2016 run for the White House.)

When the rank and file of the American populous are unable to trust the source of the news they receive, the floodgates open for all sorts of chicanery to occur at so many levels. It also sends a message that not only is the news source unreliable, in this case, NBC, but they are not the only guilty party in the history of broadcasting, or in the news business as a whole. As a result of the severity of this scandal, Williams has been suspended for six months without pay by NBC, although quite frankly it will be hard for him to rebuild a shattered reputation in absentia with the ability to return to the news desk as a credible news reader.

Muckraking scandals at the early part of the last century where sensationalized news was all the rage in print did much damage to the industry. And ever since Watergate captivated the nation (1972-74) every cub journalist wants to be the next Woodward and Bernstein. Too often so-called journalists inject themselves into stories or shape a story to fit some cause celeb they have – such as the recent Rolling Stone University of Virginia rape story. This kind of salacious lying only hurts the profession as a whole. Couple that with the Jayson Blairs of the world – he a former New York Times scribe who not only plagiarized stories, but fabricated his undergraduate degree credentials by falsifying his resume to say he graduated from the University of Maryland – a genuine embarrassment to those of us who actually did earn a degree from Maryland.

Add to the mix another case of cheating – cheating by adults meant to benefit children, yet ultimately that hurt children. A report surfaced just days following the resolution of the Williams’ lying scandal, that the winner of the Little League International United States championship game employed ineligible players.

The Jackie Robinson West team from Chicago disgraced the team’s namesake by amending the boundaries demarcating from where the players must reside. In winning its game against Mountain Ridge Little League, Jackie Robinson West “earned” the right to play in the international championship game versus South Korea, which it ultimately lost. However, as part of the penalty for cheating, Jackie Robinson West’s victories have been vacated, thus giving the American title to the Mountain Ridge team it defeated from Las Vegas.

This was an unfortunate situation for the boys who played for the Jackie Robinson West team, as it is unlikely they knowingly participated in the chicanery that gave the team an ill-gotten advantage, yet by having their victories stripped from them, they are the ones who suffer.

While it was adults who conspired to stack the deck for the Jackie Robinson West team, the team must suffer the consequences as not only a teachable moment for the boys to understand that cheaters don’t win and winners don’t cheat, but it is the right thing to do – vacating the national title and giving it to the Las Vegas runner up who played by the rules.

It is sad that the adults in the Chicago boys’ lives believed they had to falsify boundaries, records, and cheat in order to win. It is sadder still that this episode may discourage these boys or other inner city youths from participating in something as wholesome and confidence building as little league baseball, when according to a number of the parents, these boys could have been roaming the streets committing acts of thuggery or worse.

“What would you have us do, Little League, for them to be killed on the streets of Chicago,” asked Venisa Green, mother of son Brandon, a player on the Jackie Robinson West team.

In light of this cheating scandal, wholesale suspensions were meted out by Little League International, including the team manager Darold Butler and a district official involved with the gerrymandering of the boundaries. Even Jesse Jackson felt compelled to offer his two cents, asking “Is this about boundaries or race,” with absolutely no proof to make such an allegation. But that is Jackson simply being Jackson.

While nobody wants to see these boys killed because they live in less than desirable neighborhoods, that is not an excuse for cheating – akin to suggesting a means to an ends is acceptable when considering the potential alternative. It is the adults in these boys’ lives who cheated their sons, and while the sons are suffering for the sins of the fathers, there should be a lifelong take away for the boys – that cheating is not the answer, it doesn’t pay, and they should remember this pain when raising their own sons or daughters who will hopefully take to the field of play some day.

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.

No Vax - No Pax (of Mind)

No Vax – No Pax (of Mind)

Commentary by Sanford D. Horn

February 6, 2015

When should the public good take precedence over personal freedom? Some would suggest never, that once the public good begins to outrank personal freedom, it snowballs down the slippery slope to the disintegration of all personal freedoms melting into complete government control of the lives of the citizenry.

My paranoia may run pretty deep, but there are actually times where the public good is just that – good for all the public. The ongoing debate on vaccinations is a prime example. While it is the right of parents to not vaccinate their children, they do so at great risk to the health of their children. This is especially true with a greater and greater influx of illegal aliens into the United States – many, if not most, are not inoculated against some of the more basic diseases that seem to be spreading more freely in recent months and years.

Apparently Disneyland is not the happiest place on earth. Since a measles outbreak, safe to say Disneyland is the scratchiest place on earth. Many of those affected have not been vaccinated and are in greater danger of the disease worsening. Further, should a non-vaccinated child enter school there is an increasing chance of that child getting and spreading a disease.

The irresponsibility of parents opting not to inoculate their children due either to ignorance or simple willful stupidity should not come at a cost to the general population of a school community. And that includes students, teachers, staff, and parents. Ignorance based upon the incorrect assumption that vaccinations cause autism. That fallacy has been oft refuted by numerous respected members of the medical community.

A non-vaccinated child in the public schools could prove to be costly. As litigious a society as this is, should disease claim victims around the school, the parents could be sued, but more importantly, so could the school, the city, county, and/or state where the school is located.

But like so many parts of American society we the people have options. If parents wish to send their children to a public school, get them vaccinated. Simple enough. If there is a religious restriction, those children should attend a school geared to that religious belief. If a child is allergic to certain vaccinations, a doctor’s note should be presented, a waiver signed barring the school and its jurisdictions from being held legally liable.

After all, if an entire school is barred from bringing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch because one child has a peanut allergy, a pound of prevention for barely an ounce of cure, then vaccinations should be required.

This is the same principle I have adopted pertaining to drug testing all welfare applicants. If workers are required by potential employers to take and pass a drug test for gainful employment, then welfare applicants should have to take and pass the same drug test to sit on their collective tuchuses and collect our hard earned tax dollars.

For those who complain such a requirement is an invasion of their privacy, remember, they are not required to accept government money, i.e. welfare.

Simple common sense solutions to not so complex problems when the political correctness and stupidity are removed from the equations.

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.

Jordanian Justice is Just

Jordanian Justice is Just

Commentary by Sanford D. Horn

February 4, 2015

While the world burns, or at least select parts of it, Barack Obama fiddles a la Nero, in his continued refusal to classify the easily identifiable enemy in the global war on terror.

Following the absolutely horrific and barbaric murder of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseabeh, 26, burned alive in a cage by ISIS/ISIL sub-humans, Jordan’s King Abdullah struck back immediately. He ordered the execution of two ISIS/ISIL prisoners – Sajida al-Rishawi, an Iraqi woman whose vest failed to detonate in a suicide bombing attempt in 2005, as well as Ziad al-Karbouli, a one-time aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a high ranking Jordanian al-Qaeda member.

These tet-a-tets are Muslim versus Muslim, but King Abdullah knew he needed to do what Obama does not have the intestinal fortitude to do – first, identifying the enemy as radical Muslim terrorist animals hell bent on creating a global caliphate and slaughtering anyone who attempts to thwart their efforts. Then Obama needs to work with Congress, his Joint Chiefs, and the Pentagon to aggressively end ISIS/ISIL, al-Qaeda, and any other terrorist operation calling for the destruction of Israel, the United States, and Western Civilization as a whole.

“I couldn’t be more impressed with the way the king of Jordan has handled this… We crave that in the United States,” said Kimberly Guilfoyle, co-host of The Five on the Fox News Channel.

For while Abdullah makes decisions and sends a strong message, Obama continues to play fast and loose with semantics that more than just frustrate the American people. Obama sits around handwringing and attempting to parse words that support his trading terrorists for traitors – recall the Beau Bergdahl for five terrorists in GITMO maneuver as worse than when the New York Mets traded future Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan to the then California Angels in 1971 for Jim Fregosi.

But the Bergdahl swap was explained away by White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz who looked a deer in the headlights when he said the Taliban, from whence the aforementioned terrorists came, is an “armed insurgency,” but ISIL is a terrorist group. “We don’t make concessions to terror groups,” said Schultz, who sounded more like Sgt. Schultz of the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. Yet both Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry called the Taliban a terrorist group as recently as two weeks ago. Of course they wouldn’t be caught dead calling them a Muslim extremist terrorist group. Heaven forbid.

Prior to Jordan’s Abdullah taking action on the overnight of Tuesday-Wednesday, February 3-4, just hours after visiting Obama at the White House, Obama said of ISIS/ISIL, “Whatever ideology they are operating off of is bankrupt,” and they must be “degraded and ultimately defeated.”

“Defeated?” Detritus such as ISIS/ISIL, al-Qaeda, and the rest of the terror Nazis cannot be marked for defeat. They can only be marked for slaughter. “Whatever ideology?” The whole world knows these are radical Muslim extremists. Only Obama and his minions have yet to face reality. These are savages who are killing women and children in ways so barbarous most news stations the world over refuse to show footage. And beyond shooting, throwing off of buildings, beheadings, crucifixions, and burying alive, immolation is a new low, and is not a part of the tenets of Islam. Of course neither is subjecting Iraqi children to abduction and selling into sex slavery, but that hasn’t stopped these filthy animals.

At least Obama didn’t hit the golf course after the fiery death of al-Kaseabeh. Apparently he only does that when an American is beheaded – six minutes from talk to tee.

The butchers hiding behind their masks calling themselves an Islamic state only understand one thing and it is not talk, or negotiation, or deal making, or holding hands singing kum-by-a; because if they are offered a hand, they will summarily cut it off. The only thing these blood-thirsty zealous animals understand is violent death. That is precisely what they should receive, and as quickly as possible before they cross the porous southern border of the United States and march up Main Street in all 50 states littering the countryside with the blood and bodies of innocent American citizens. What is required is will and leadership; sadly there is currently a dearth of both.

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.