If you are deaf you can still hear the clamor for action against ISIS. The world is speaking some are not listening.
Five long days since Friday the 13th Paris is still trapped in the ongoing search and destroy of the remaining terrorists inside their city. Wednesday morning an intense gun battle took place in the Saint Denis neighborhood in the northern part of Paris. Police and terrorists waged an hour long shooting war in close quarters. When it was over two terrorists were dead and seven captured. The dead were a result of one shot by a police sniper and the other, a female, by detonating a suicide vest as police closed in. Automatic rifle fire, grenades and explosives were in the apartment where police suspected that the mastermind of the Friday attacks was hiding. Sadly it does not appear that he was among those dead or captured. A massive manhunt continues.
Based on very early reports it is believed that the occupants of the apartment had plans for another terrorist attack in very near future in a busy commercial area. It is no coincidence that the raid was made. French law enforcement is showing just how good they are. To develop enough information, intelligence and evidence in such a short time that allowed them to pinpoint the apparent base of the attackers is remarkable. Their bravery in executing the raid knowing what the cell was capable of is even more note worthy.
The French have taken the bull by the horns and will prevail.
In the meantime, Mr. Putin in Russia issued a statement worthy of a world leader. He acknowledged that ISIS was responsible for the downing of the Russian plane carrying 224 tourists. He verbiage was significant. He said “Forgiving them is up to God, it is my job to get them there.” And Mr. Obama thinks that bellicose words have no import.
When the world has seen the terror, felt the pain on so many fronts, when so many countries have been victims of brutal attacks by radical Muslim terrorists it is time to take a stand. It is not a time to chastise the press for asking difficult questions that had obvious answers because they were an affront to our Presidents’ ego. History will castigate Mr. Obama in the same light as Neville Chamberlin. Mr. Obama is a modern day Nero, fiddling while Rome, or in this case Paris, burns. He appears to be unaffected by current situations that should prompt changes in his plans and insists that he is right no matter that ISIS is spreading mayhem outside of Syria and Iraq.
Suspension of logic is not an attractive trait for the leader of the free world. It is becoming apparent that not only does Mr. Obama have detractors at home but is now amassing the same aboard and in large numbers.
Now is just not the time to be a proud American. Hearts are heavy on Main Street USA because we have not heard the familiar voice of leadership and command that we have in the past. Our President has been hell bent of making the United States of America an empty shell of its’ former self. It is almost impossible to witness the slide without a tear in the eye and a knot in the stomach.
Even Pope Francis has had the wisdom to call what is going on with terrorists “World War III.” Francois Hollande openly says France is at war. Common folks from every walk of life, liberals and conservatives alike, Republicans and Democrats are slack jawed in disbelief of Obama’s stance. On the world stage the only thing that gets Obama any respect is the office he holds, not his agenda, not his ego, not his arrogance but just the fact that he hold the office of President of the United States. The previous holders or that office have won that respect by their leadership and their devoted stewardship of world peace and the safety of peoples around the globe for over two hundred years.
Sadly Mr. Obama cannot and does not stand equal with his predecessors.