John, If Things Are So Peachy, Why The Long Face?

I never tire to resurrecting that question when it comes to John Forbes Kerry.  Ketchup Boy, who testified before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, said:

“And frankly—and last thing, this is counterintuitive but it’s true: Our citizens, our world today is actually, despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally— less deaths, less violent deaths today than through the last century. And so even the concept of state war has changed in many people’s minds, and we’re seeing now more asymmetrical kinds of struggles.”

Utter stupidity has no limits. 

“The Islamic State awaits the army of ‘Rome,’ whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse,’ wrote Graeme Wood at The Atlantic.

FBI Director James Comey has said his bureau is investigating possible ISIS supporters in all 50 states.

James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, starkly testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, “When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled.

Here’s the pull quote from The Washington Times:

“If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group’s access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries,” he said. “Since the conflict began in 2011, more than 20,000 foreign fighters—at least 3,400 of whom are Westerners—have gone to Syria from more than 90 countries.”

Hit Job: Liberal Sanctimony On EIT

Islamic terrorists are fighting an End Time battle and for these animals “victory” means destroying every cross and killing every Jew and infidel in hideous, repulsive ways.

NBC’s Brian Williams asked former CIA Director Michael Hayden “How are we better than our enemies morally in light of what we all read about today?”

We have witnessed mass executions of Sunni tribesmen, the beheading of little children, the beheadings of ISIS captives like James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, Hervé Gourdel, Alan Henning and Peter Kassig, crucifixions, stonings and hangings.

Terrorism’s fundamental purpose is to control through fear.

Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dianne Feinstein, released a highly partisan hit job on Tuesday, December 9th on “enhanced interrogation techniques.”  Her manifest grudge against the CIA for spying on her and other members of the Senate Intelligence Committee while it was preparing its damning report on the detention and interrogation program is embodied in what can only be described as a hit job.

The report was to be released in August of this year.  Why wasn’t it?  Can you say mid-terms? 

Secretary of State John Kerry called Feinstein to discuss the broader implications of the timing of publicly releasing a declassified summary of her committee's report "because a lot is going on in the world”, and he wanted to make sure that foreign policy implications “including our ongoing efforts against ISIL and the safety of Americans being held hostage around the world” were being appropriately factored into the timing.

Feinstein’s malicious spite will ignite an even greater jihad against America.

Bob Kerrey, former governor of Nebraska and U.S. senator, wrote an opinion piece at USA Today, “I also do not have to wait to know we are fighting a war that is different than any in our country's past. The enemy does not have an easy to identify and analyze military. In the war against global jihadism, human intelligence and interrogation have become more important, and I worry that the partisan nature of this report could make this kind of collection more difficult.”

“I do not need to read the report to know that the Democratic staff alone wrote it. The Republicans checked out early when they determined that their counterparts started out with the premise that the CIA was guilty and then worked to prove it.”

Feinstein wants you and me to feel guilty or muster compassion for a pack of savages who embody pure evil.  I don’t think so.  Whether waterboarded, held in stress positions, stripped naked, rectally fed and rehydrated or sleep deprived the manner in which the CIA extracted human intelligence doesn’t even approach the nightmares the detainees visited upon us on September 11th, 2001.

Daniel Greenfield notes, “Islamic peace does not come from diversity, from accepting the existence of other nations, religions and peoples, but from unity through Islam and eliminating as many differences as possible. If Islam is the source of peace, then all that which is ‘not Islam’ is the cause of war.”

“Kill the Jews.  Kill the Christians.  Then there will be peace.”

“The Islamic idea of peace is not based on a recognition of the humanity of one’s fellow man, but on a rejection of their humanity.”

“The West sees peace as living side by side with Muslims. Muslims see peace as the end of the West.”

We would do well to remember that.

UPDATE:  Thank you Stogie, of Saber Point, for linking to this post.