Anyway, take note of this October 19, 2014 article in The Daily Beast:
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS: Not only are foodstuffs, medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrollsRead the entire article HERE.
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants of the so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists, assisting them to build their terror-inspiring “Caliphate.”
The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians. It is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, European donors, and the United Nations. Whether it continues is now the subject of anguished debate among officials in Washington and European. The fear is that stopping aid would hurt innocent civilians and would be used for propaganda purposes by the militants, who would likely blame the West for added hardship.
The Bible says if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him something to drink—doing so will “heap burning coals” of shame on his head. But there is no evidence that the militants of the Islamic State, widely known as ISIS or ISIL, feel any sense of disgrace or indignity (and certainly not gratitude) receiving charity from their foes....
The abyss looms. Isn't it a beautiful thing to behold? Plunge in, discover annihilation.
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Isn't it a beautiful thing to behold? initiated
Notice how the "O" just naturally appears?
There was a time, in the past, when we gave some attention in our academic training to the principles of right conduct and the distinction between right and wrong. Today, no longer placing value on this question, it appears to me as if the once-great America has lost her way in this question of what is right, and what is wrong. We can look back over the past 60 or so years and find examples where we have pursued immoral behaviors toward others. I am thinking now of several wars where, in the conduct of them, we have given up our young men in exchange for the dead soldiers of other nations, and where our inability to secure victory comes from our own decadence. Korea, Vietnam was morally wrong and at no time did we debate the propriety of such involvement—noting that all such debate must occur before we enter the fray, rather than afterwards; once we are there the damage is done. Our folly continued with various wars in the Middle East and there is a consistency here: it was the incompetence of the Truman administration that led us into both Korea and Vietnam; it was the incompetence of Bush the Elder that led us into a Middle East war, which embroils us still today. Peering closely into Syria and Iraq today, what are the interests of the United States and her people? What befalls us there is a consequence of immorality —ours, and we should wonder how many generations of Arabs shall grow up hating America for what it is doing there.
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