Saturday, September 27, 2014

Degrade and Destroy

In his weekly address, the president said he had secured significant progress on a number of diplomatic fronts, such as building support for the coalition battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and cutting off the flow of financing and foreign fighters to extremist terror groups.

"America is leading the world in the fight to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group," Obama said.

On Friday, the British Parliament voted to join the U.S. in conducting airstrikes against the militants. At least five Arab countries and a number of other European allies have offered to contribute to the bombing campaign.

  The Hill
The Coalition of the Killing.

And the UN Security Council unanimously passed a new resolution that will no doubt provide more cover for further civil liberties abuses.
In that context, the Council, through the resolution, decided that all States shall ensure that their legal systems provide for the prosecution, as serious criminal offences, of travel for terrorism or related training, as well as the financing or facilitation of such activities.

Member States, it also decided, shall prevent entry or transit through their territories of any individual about whom that State had credible information of their terrorist-related intentions, without prejudice to transit necessary for the furtherance of judicial processes. It called on States to require airlines to provide passenger lists for that purpose.

Outlining further measures for international cooperation to counter international terrorism and prevent the growth of violent extremism, it expressed readiness to designate additional individuals for sanctions listings, and directed the United Nations counter-terrorism subsidiary bodies to devote special focus to foreign terrorist fighters, assessing the threat they posed and reporting on principal gaps in Member States’ abilities to suppress their travel.

  UN.org Re: resolution 2178 (2014)
Joe McCarthy’s ghost is licking its lips.

What is being degraded and destroyed is not terrorist organizations.

No comments: