{"id":1446,"date":"2016-06-14T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:08:01","slug":"this-past-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/14\/this-past-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"This past weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past weekend (early morning hours of Sunday) all hell broke loose at a nightclub in Orlando Florida<\/a> when a terrorist decided to destroy the lives of members of the LGBT community; just because he hates them. The slaughter of forty-nine human beings by a home grown terrorist who had a problem with those who were not just like him shows how low ISIS will go in trying to destroy our morale.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our President does not want people to associate Islam with these terrorist attacks; the problem is that Islam is the basic reason for them. But, I am not saying that this religion is responsible. It is those who have twisted it into an unrecognizable version of Islam that some are calling Radicalized Islam that we should fear, not those of Islam as they are not necessarily our enemy(s). And to top it all off Obama does not want to make the connection between ISIS and the homegrown terrorist. We know that he pledged himself to ISIS during a 911 call during the attack, so what is wrong Mr. President? Why do you remain so stubborn that you can not see the very bloody handwriting on the wall?<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is time to take off the metaphorical gloves and stop tip toeing around the problem of these terrorists trying to destroy our way of life. This was and is a \u2018them or us\u2019 type of situation where it has become very clear that ISIS and any other terrorist organizations like them need to be neutralized for all time. By the United States just sitting back and doing little to nothing about them we are being na\u00efve. We are just fooling ourselves into thinking that we can isolate ourselves from these monsters and anyone that thinks that we can do that is just more than a little na\u00efve!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even if the terrorist in Orlando was just inspired by ISIS and not directed by them we must mount a series of operations with our allies that will lead us down the road that will cause their destruction. No other result can be accepted, for if even a small group survives they will spread their evil ways to others and we again will be looking into the face of Radical Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I know that it is hard to hear that this is a situation where it must come down to either we win or they do and that there is no in-between. Those who think that standing by and watching the rest of the world battle against ISIS must not have learned the lesson(s) of the isolationists who thrived just prior to World War II. We must not let our guard down, but at the same time we must go on with our lives. To let the terrorists stop us from being a free and democratic society is their aim; we must not try to hide under the cover of the mythical rock that would shield us from them. To let evil prevail all one must do is to look the other way and ignore it; this must not happen! We must stand as one, no matter what race, creed, religion, gender or sexual orientation we are. All of us here in America and across the world must stand up to these monsters and show them that they will not win in the end and we will prevail!<\/span><\/p>\n

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That is my opinion- Jumpin Jersey Mike<\/span><\/p>\n