Words really mean something

By Jim Killebrew

[February 18, 2015]  In our world of topsy-turvy word games emanating from the White House and the State Department, where there seems to be a white-knuckle-grabbing fear of even mentioning the word "terror", "radical", and "Islam" in the same sentence, while at the same time a terror group actually naming themselves the "Islamic State" carries out the beheadings of 21 Christians in Libya. At the same time, the President cannot bring himself to acknowledge those 21 men were Christians; his label was they were "Egyptian citizens."

Not naming America's enemies may have some effect on the ineffectiveness of fighting the enemy. It aids in not having a plan with objectives to carry out a mission to protect the American people by stopping the activities of ISIS. Even if the President and his Administration does not believe it is appropriate to equate ISIS with radical Islamic terrorists by naming them, as that group has already done, the American people believe the President is traveling the wrong road in regard to not having a plan to defeat ISIS. A recent CNN poll reported that 57 percent of Americans disapprove of the President's trying to convince them that the most radicalized Islamist terror group is not a threat; most Americans believe they are a threat and believe the President is not realistic in his denial of labeling them as such.

The President's far-reaching Administration seemingly is standing firm on insisting "radical Islamists" do not exist. Each of the spokespersons who brief the news media constantly fight against using the words that would identify the ISIS group as part of the Islamic faith. Yet, again, the spokespersons who are videoed standing behind innocent Christians, or are parading them in cages moving toward their burning death, will shout to the heavens they are Islam and they are killing the "infidels" who are comprised of Christians, Jews and other religious Muslims who do not believe in the same "jihad" activities as does ISIS.

The entire world witnessed publically on the Vox television interview where he refused to admit the Paris attacks were aimed at the Jewish population. Instead, he stated the killings were carried out by those "zealots" who "randomly [shot] a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris." He could not bring himself to admit the deli was a Kosher deli, filled with Jewish people. He sent out his Administration to "spin" the tale that it was a "random" shooting because the specific people in the deli were not individually targeted, but rather they had "randomly" entered the deli, thereby being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The President, and all his Administration spokespersons, knew the deli was a Jewish deli, but they could not report that honestly. If they did, it would besmirch the name of Islam, which the President will not place any blame on any sect of Islam for the horrendous killings.

Perhaps the most interesting statement uttered by a spokesperson in the Obama Administration was a State Department spokeswoman being interviewed on MSNBC's "Hardball" when Marie Harf said, "We're killing a lot of them, [terrorists] and we're going to keep killing more of them. But we cannot win this war by killing them, we need to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs..." This statement was interrupted by the host Chris Matthews, who countered with, "There's always going to be poor people. There's always going to be poor Muslims." So the Administration has even reached a possible cause of ISIS is the people simply need jobs. They are flocking to the ISIS group because they don't have jobs, so we need to get at the "root cause" and establish a jobs program to solve the ISIS problem.

As the ISIS radicalized Islamic terrorist groups continue to march across the Middle East and Northern African landscape beheading and burning Christians, women, children and all "infidels", it seems the best the Administration can do is send out the United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, to tell us the real problem is that Fox News continues to talk about the atrocities of ISIS and being critical of the Administration for not calling those atrocities radical Islamic terrorism. Thank you Mr. Holder, we needed that to feel much safer.

[By JIM KILLEBREW]