Obama's War: Syrian Group Claims American Led Strikes Cause Over 900 Deaths

By Douglas V. Gibbs

President Barack Obama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, may go down in history as a bigger war-monger than George W. Bush.  It is becoming increasingly apparent that boots on the ground will need to be used to hold positions in Syria and Iraq, and defend positions after ISIS has continued to move forward after American air-strikes has failed to cripple the terrorist organization.  Remember, this is the presidential candidate that in 2008 ran as an anti-war candidate, criticizing Bush's war in Iraq, calling Dubya a war-monger, and calling the American military action in Iraq illegal.  He vowed to pull Americans out of the Middle East, and to close Guantanamo Bay.  The military prison in a small American enclave in Cuba remains open, and after finally pulling a majority of U.S. personnel out of Afghanistan and Iraq, Barack Obama has Americans back in the area fighting against an enemy that has been merciless in its advances.

The complicit media has spun the decision to return Americans to the region as being Bush's fault, blaming the former Republican President for encouraging the anger among the "militants" of ISIS with his invasions, and having a hand in creating the group by leaving them without homes to go to.

Never mind the Obama administration's fueling of the crisis with delivery of weapons to local groups, funding of terrorist groups in the area, and backing a campaign to remove Assad - a dictator, no doubt, but one with a heavy enough hand that before the West began to meddle, he had these groups under control in his country.

While the liberal left progressive Democrats call the war in Syria, and the advance of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, a civil war, this writer sees it as something else.  War, destruction, and the enslavement of the enemy is what Islam does.  This is normal fare for Muslims.  The way to deal with it is to destroy the worst of them, and maintain a close eye on the rest.  Islam cannot be trusted, and the long-term goal of the Mohammadans is worldwide control through a massive Muslim caliphate.

There are differences between Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, Wahabis, and so forth, but these are differences based on rivalries within the political and religious ranks of Islam.  These groups are rivals with each other, but we are the enemy, and they will set aside their differences, as al-Qaeda and ISIS has, in order to face who they believe to be the real enemy.

The propaganda war has always been a large part of how Islam fights their wars.  They know that The West has no stomach for war, and that our good nature has led us to abhor the realities of war.  We have ceased to fight wars in the manner that they were once fought, and now tippy-toe around trying to make sure there are no civilian casualties.  I hate war as much as the next person, and I am just as horrified when there are casualties, but the fact is, if we are going to engage in war, the reality is that there will be casualties.  That is a part of it all.

According to a group in Syria monitoring the warfare in their region, airstrikes led by American forces has killed over 900 people since September.  The number of civilians caught in the fighting (I wonder if "non-combatants" even exists in Islam - even "moderate" Muslims are potential terrorists simply because of the nature of Islam, and the teachings of the Koran these people are fed from infancy) does not dominate the numbers.  Most of the deaths are of members of the Islamic State group.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that the U.S.-led airstrikes have killed 785 militants of the extremist Islamic State group. It said the strikes also have killed 72 militants of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate, the Nusra Front.  The number of civilians killed is at 52, including eight women and five children.

At this point, those that read the Associated Press story about this are expected to slap their hands to their faces, and scream, "Women and children?  That's it.  This carnage has just got to stop!"

Again, I am saddened by their deaths, but that is the reality of war; a war we did not start, but one that exists because ISIS has decided to march through the Middle East and begin to create its own militant caliphate, while threatening to use the growing abilities of their expanding caliphate to attack the United States on American soil.

The punchline in all of it is that the anti-war candidate, the person who in 2008 had a love affair with groups like Code Pink, is now the person behind these deaths.  President Barack Obama, the Commander in Chief that decided that American interests are best served by killing these people, has become the war-monger he accused Bush of being.

Like his immigration speech last Thursday, the whole war thing, in regards to Barack Obama, is a great contradiction.

The hypocrisy of Barack Obama is deafening.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Activist group: US-led Syria strikes kill over 900 - Associated Press/Yahoo News