{"id":128876,"date":"2015-11-17T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/the-problem-with-fighting-daesh-is-that-we-arent-willing-to-kill-more-civilians.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:42:49","slug":"the-problem-with-fighting-daesh-is-that-we-arent-willing-to-kill-more-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/the-problem-with-fighting-daesh-is-that-we-arent-willing-to-kill-more-civilians.html","title":{"rendered":"The problem with fighting Da&#039;esh is that we aren&#039;t willing to kill more civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That seems to be Ted Cruz&#39; judgment.<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;We must immediately recognize that our enemy is not &lsquo;violent extremism.&rsquo; It is the radical Islamism that has declared jihad against the west. It will not be appeased by outreach or declarations of tolerance. <\/i><b><i>It will not be deterred by targeted airstrikes with zero tolerance for civilian casualties,<\/i><\/b><i> when the terrorists have such utter disregard for innocent life.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yup. If the terrorists don&#39;t care about killing innocents, we can&#39;t afford to either, if we are to protect the fundamental values of human life that we all cherish. Did I get that right, Ted?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/world\/2015\/11\/13\/3722243\/in-response-to-paris-ted-cruz-calls-for-airstrikes-with-more-tolerance-for-civilian-casualties'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ECjKgxPRb1Q4eLRGp1uF8VzbPPkx2YnGEuXARoD3HwwbDPviJFr-nkxlmYbm4i2bvLagyDoANxaZETrisNicCuRqyrs9K_lwSsUZTTjWv0ipl2-8g4aJXkZMBh01JNRuH-2Uhs5DfROo-W7e=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/world\/2015\/11\/13\/3722243\/in-response-to-paris-ted-cruz-calls-for-airstrikes-with-more-tolerance-for-civilian-casualties'>In Response To Paris, Ted Cruz Calls For Airstrikes With More &lsquo;Tolerance For Civilian Casualties&rsquo;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCruz did not specify where these airstrikes should take place or what they should be targeting.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JhANoFW1ZK4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That seems to be Ted Cruz&#39; judgment. &quot;We must immediately recognize that our enemy is not &lsquo;violent extremism.&rsquo; It is the radical Islamism that has declared jihad against the west. It will not be appeased by outreach or declarations of tolerance. It will not be deterred by targeted airstrikes with zero tolerance for civilian casualties, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/the-problem-with-fighting-daesh-is-that-we-arent-willing-to-kill-more-civilians.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The problem with fighting Da&#039;esh is that we aren&#039;t willing to kill more civilians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,10,17,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9496,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/spammers_must_d.html","url_meta":{"origin":128876,"position":0},"title":"SPAMMERS MUST DIE!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Jun-06 7:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. 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