Doomsday ISIS Predictions Generating Bad Policy

[marmar]

(The Progressive) South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham recently joined many of his Republican colleagues, declaring that ISIS is an existential threat to the United States.

“This is a war we’re fighting, not a counterterrorism operation,” Graham said. “This President needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home.”

Some GOP politicians are warning that the group may have already infiltrated the border.

Texas Governor Rick Perry said that there’s “a very real possibility” that ISIS terrorists may have entered the country. Former Massachusetts Scott Brown, currently a senatorial candidate in New Hampshire, said that members of ISIS might “actually be coming through the border right now.”

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“This is a terrorist group the likes of which we haven’t seen before, and we better stop them now,” says Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. “It ought to be pretty clear when they start cutting off the heads of journalists and say they’re going to fly the black flag of ISIS over the White House that ISIS is a clear and present danger.”

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Raed Jarrar of the American Friends Service Committee also argues for a more sensible approach.

“ISIS has a limited capacity, and it poses a small threat to nations within its reach in the Middle East,” he told The Progressive. “The threat it poses to the United States and Europe is even more limited. The FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, and other experts agree there is no imminent threat to the U.S.” ...............(more)

- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/09/187864/doomsday-isis-predictions-generating-bad-policy#sthash.qLZKtmH0.dpuf

[phantom power]

1. fear is the best way to keep the endless war gravy train going

[Rex]

3. The scary thing is, these terrorist groups see how childlike republicans are

and use that against us.

[Rex]

2. PSYOP - clearly it has worked on the GOP since they only understand fear and anger.

ISIS taking a page out of OBL playbook. I remember how scared the GOPukers were that Saddam had drones filled with sarin gas and was just a hop, skip and a jump away from using them on the USA! Oh how frightened were the little GOPers...couldn't wait to go bomb that big old meanie and his troops...which are now ISIS.

The last thing we ever need to do is let GOPers decide who we should go to war with. They don't have fully developed brains and cannot fathom above fear and anger.

[Louisiana1976]

4. Agree wholeheartedly. We shouldn't let Repuke fearmongering goad us into war.

[FlatStanley]

5. It's not just Senator Pearl Clutcher.

The fact that Democratic leaders are pretending that Isosceles is a threat to anything is, to me, no different.

The only thing missing are videos of men playin on monkey bars.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

6. Everybody check under your bed before you go to sleep tonight.

They could be anywhere.