{"id":7131,"date":"2014-11-16T22:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2014-11-16T22:25:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T22:25:38","slug":"an-act-of-pure-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7131","title":{"rendered":"'An act of pure evil'"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Islamic State terrorists have beheaded another American. The victim this time is an aid worker, Peter Kessig.<\/p>\n

President Obama’s response? He called it an “act of pure evil.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/video\/obama-beheading-was-act-of-pure-evil\/vi-BBe9xJq<\/p>\n

What now?<\/p>\n

Let’s wait for the critics of the U.S.-led aerial bombardment campaign to demand “troops on the ground” to fight ISIL face to face, hand to hand.<\/p>\n

My own take is that the air strikes need to continue — only with more ferocity.<\/p>\n

The president issued the correct statement aboard Air Force One en route from the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. ISIL must be destroyed. It must be bombed into oblivion.<\/p>\n

The ironic aspect of this murder is that Kessig had converted to Islam after leaving the Army, where he served as a Ranger. Therefore, ISIL killed one of\u00a0its own. How does one make sense of any of this, at any level?<\/p>\n

Although I do not want to return to the battlefield in Iraq or join the fight — on the ground — in Syria, I clearly understand the odds against an all-airborne campaign accomplishing the mission of destroying a sophisticated, well-funded and well-armed terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

I also know that the United States and our allies have immense firepower available to them.<\/p>\n

They should use it … with extreme prejudice.<\/p>\n

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Islamic State terrorists have beheaded another American. The victim this time is an aid worker, Peter Kessig. President Obama’s response? He called it an “act of pure evil.” http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/video\/obama-beheading-was-act-of-pure-evil\/vi-BBe9xJq What now? Let’s wait for the critics of the U.S.-led aerial bombardment campaign to demand “troops on the ground” to fight ISIL face to face, hand … Continue reading 'An act of pure evil'<\/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":[5,12],"tags":[465,540,1836,2347,2349,3577,5177],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","tag-army-rangers","tag-barack-obama","tag-g-20","tag-isil","tag-islam","tag-peter-kessig","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131","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=7131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}