{"id":20563,"date":"2017-03-24T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20563"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:35:28","slug":"get-to-work-to-destroy-isis-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20563","title":{"rendered":"Get to work to ‘destroy’ ISIS, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As\u00a0if we needed any reminders …<\/p>\n

A terrorist launched an attack in London the other day. Five people died; several others were injured. Police killed the madman (whose name I will not use, per my recently adopted policy of refusing to ID the names of these goons).<\/p>\n

He was a British citizen of Middle East descent.<\/p>\n

And, oh yes, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, apparently because the bastard was a member of the terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

What does this mean? It means the president of the United States — who is mired in the muck of growing controversy and potential scandal at home — has to get cracking with one of his many top priorities.<\/p>\n

Which is to “destroy ISIS.”<\/p>\n

Just how difficult is it to do what Donald Trump has pledged to do? We’ve just borne witness to the difficulty. The London attacker was a “lone wolf.” He took his vengeance out on innocent bystanders.<\/p>\n

Just how does one stop this kind of attack? How does a government eradicate from the face of the planet every single individual who is capable and willing to commit these acts?<\/p>\n

This is precisely the kind of act with which the world has lived since the beginning of time. The 9\/11 attack on our country launched an new kind of “world war” that many observers said likely never would end. It becomes a war of attrition, except that with a planet full of 7 billion individuals, it becomes problematic in the extreme to eliminate every single person who is committed to some hideous cause disguised as a religion.<\/p>\n

The London attack has revealed — as if we needed reminding —\u00a0the difficulty that stands before those in power.<\/p>\n

That includes the head of state of the world’s most powerful nation. Trump\u00a0has blustered and bellowed since entering the political world about how he knows “more about ISIS than the generals … believe me.” He has vowed to destroy the terrorist organization that grew out of that terrible day on 9\/11. Two previous presidents — one Republican and one Democrat — have overseen the deaths of thousands<\/em> of terrorists around the world.<\/p>\n

Have we gotten them all? Of course not. Are we able<\/em> to get them all? Probably not.<\/p>\n

Thus, the fight goes on.<\/p>\n\n

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As\u00a0if we needed any reminders … A terrorist launched an attack in London the other day. Five people died; several others were injured. Police killed the madman (whose name I will not use, per my recently adopted policy of refusing to ID the names of these goons). He was a British citizen of Middle East … Continue reading Get to work to ‘destroy’ ISIS, Mr. President<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,1424,2348,2362,7026],"class_list":["post-20563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-95","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-london-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20565,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563\/revisions\/20565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}