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ISIS CRISIS CHAOS

Exclusive: Joseph Farah lists plethora of mixed signals coming from White House

We’re at war.

We're not at war.

Maybe we’re at war.

Maybe we’re fighting workplace violence.

But we’re certainly not fighting Islam.

Islam is a religion of peace.

ISIS is not Islamic.

So who are we fighting, again?

Terrorists.

But not all terrorists.

Some terrorists have redeeming qualities and some don’t.

We’re just fighting really bad terrorists – really mean, nasty, ugly terrorists.

So we’re in a semi-war with ill-mannered, uncouth terrorists.

ISIS doesn’t have any etiquette. We won’t negotiate with them.

But we will negotiate with Hamas and the inventors of modern-day terrorism who still run the Palestinian Authority.

Is this confusing to anyone? Wait. It gets worse.

So how exactly are we going to win this war – or whatever it is we are calling it today?

Have we asked the generals?

Yes, but they say they need boots on the ground. And that’s not an option – not in an election year.

So, we’re going to build a coalition.

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We’re not going to commit any ground troops to fight ISIS, but will use the surrogate forces of the Free Syria Army to battle this vicious enemy. But the Free Syrian Army just signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS. It was the Free Syrian Army that turned over the American journalists to ISIS that led to their beheading. It was the Free Syrian Army that the U.S. has been supporting for more than a year in the effort to topple the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad. And it is Bashar Assad that is actually fighting ISIS. And most of the weaponry we provided the Free Syrian Army to fight Assad has already wound up in the hands of ISIS.

Who’s in the coalition?

Well, Saudi Arabia says if we give them half a billion dollars, they we train the Free Syrian Army to fight ISIS on our behalf.

Wait a minute! Saudi Arabia wants half a billion dollars from the U.S. to train the Free Syrian Army to fight ISIS, even though the Free Syrian Army is, more or less, allied with ISIS?

Wouldn’t it make more sense for Saudi Arabia to give the U.S. half a billion dollars to train people to fight ISIS?

Turkey, one of the most important allies and coalition members, is not providing the U.S. with permission to use bases to fly missions against ISIS.

Jordan says it’s willing to provide ground troops to fight ISIS, but the U.S. says that won’t be necessary.

England is nowhere to be found in this coalition.

How about Iran? Maybe we’ll talk to the Iranians, maybe we won’t.

How about Syria, the front lines in the war on ISIS? No, we don’t like Syria. A year ago, toppling Syria was our highest priority.

What about Israel? Nobody’s asking Israel.

It’s not a coalition of the willing. This seems to be a non-coalition of the unwilling and the inept.

What about congressional approval?

It’s not necessary.

The president who has been for months seeking repeal of the congressional authorization for the use of military force given to George W. Bush 13 years ago is now citing it as authority for his executive war against ISIS.

Nevertheless, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough assure: “We say what we mean and we mean what we say.”

Really? Like that red line in Syria? Whose side are we on again?

Is this any way to run a war – or even a campaign against workplace violence?

It would be like a wildly laughable old Keystone Kops movie if the stakes were not so high.

But ISIS is a real threat. ISIS is murdering people, turning women into sex slaves, torturing, crucifying and conducting a scorched-earth war for a 21st century Islamic caliphate. The Christian population of the Middle East is on the run. The non-Sunni Islamic population is on the run.

I guess elections really do have consequences.

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