(ISIL, IS, or whatever they will be called today)
Our unwillingness to discuss Iraq years ago is what makes us complicit. I do not understand why it is so difficult to differentiate “plausible deniability” from transparency. Either Obama is the worst negotiator ever or he wanted the SOFA to fail in Iraq. However now democrats want it both ways. He wins reelection partly on his exit from Iraq but then this weekend he’s proclaiming that he wanted to stay but Iraq kicked us out. Along with several smug references to “false narratives” on the part of conservatives. I have rarely been so blatantly lied to! He has thoroughly exploited the a.d.d of this generation and the only people that do not recognize the deceptions are either willfully incoherent or wilfully ignorant of facts. Even WaPo couldn’t avoid the newsworthy nature of this cognitive dissonance: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/19/president-obama-took-credit-in-2012-for-withdrawing-all-troops-from-iraq-today-he-said-something-different/
If you have trouble understanding the value of treating the disease (the cause) rather than the symptoms (this genocide) then you need not think any further than November. Anyone that votes for any politician that claims that: “Iraq kicked us out” after those same politicians bragged and capitalized on withdrawal from Iraq. Anyone that votes for them is complicit in these symptoms (and the worse to come) and feigning concern after we did the damage is unforgivable. We cannot fix Iraq, but after all of our investments we can & should maintain a fortress there, one that makes it impossible for such gruesome atrocities to occur for more than a moment before they are squashed. Rather than watching children starve and die before we get around to intervening. At the rate things are degrading internationally we are going to need all of the bases we can get. My conscience is clear on this. Our gluttony as a nation has become the priority that drives our elections. Please don’t put “free” abortion and “free” healthcare ahead of international security and just principles in November and 2016. Short of that, then clicking like (clicktivism) isn’t a legitimate response, and dare I say, if we pray to our Father but fail to lift a finger or admit that we voted first for our pocketbook rather than just and selfless principles, then we are no better than: James 2:16.
James 2:14-23
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.
We need to repent is what we need to do, and we need to repent of our gluttonous and self-serving priorities that caused us to abandon these people.