Our “less violent world”

The President told a Tumblr discussion group that they’re being too cynical, that the world is less violent now than it has ever been, according to the Washington Times;

“If there’s one message I want to deliver to young people like a Tumblr audience is — don’t get cynical,” he said, Breitbart reported. “Guard against cynicism. I mean, the truth of the matter is that for all the challenges we face, all the problems that we have, if you had to be — if you had to choose any moment to be born in human history, not knowing what your position was going to be, who you were going to be, you’d choose this time. The world is less violent than it has ever been.”

Well, as long as you ignore the fact that after Iraqi cities Falluja, Kirkuk and Tikrit fell, al Qaeda seized two more towns yesterday, according to Fox News;

Police officials said militants driving in machinegun-mounted pickups entered two towns in Diyala province late Thursday — Jalula, 80 miles northeast of Baghdad, and Sadiyah, 60 miles north of the Iraqi capital.

Iraqi soldiers abandoned their posts there without any resistance, the officials told The Associated Press.

Well, maybe in the sense that the Iraqi Army isn’t resisting it’s more peaceful, I suppose.

The Wire reports that Iraq is getting military help from Iran, which seems like a real good idea;

Iran, of all places, has reportedly dispatched two units of its elite Revolutionary Guards to Iraq to help stem the tide of terrorist gains and defend Baghdad from assault.

The two nations were bitter rivals for decades when Saddam Hussein’s Sunni dominated regime was at war with Tehran’s Shiite-led government. After the U.S. invasion, the Iraqi government came to be dominated by Shiite leaders, who now finds themselves under assault from the Sunni militants of ISIS. Now Iran sees Baghdad as a strategic partner, and the ISIS militias as unacceptable neighbors.

The President is weighing options on the Iraq morass according to the Associated Press;

Less than three years after pulling American forces out of Iraq, President Barack Obama is weighing a range of short-term military options, including airstrikes, to quell an al-Qaida inspired insurgency that has captured two Iraqi cities and threatened to press toward Baghdad.

“We do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold,” Obama said Thursday in the Oval Office.

How many thousands have died in Syria thus far? Estimates vary between 110,470 and 162,400. Maybe they were tickled to death. Thousands of Africans have been murdered in Africa as a result of al Qaeda insurgencies there.

CNN reports that Russian tanks have rolled in the Ukraine;

Three Russian tanks and other military vehicles crossed the border into Ukraine on Thursday, prompting a skirmish between Ukrainian and Russian forces, acting Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry told the BBC that the claim was “another fake piece of information.”

According to Avakov, tanks crossed the border at a checkpoint controlled by pro-Russian separatists in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. Armored vehicles and artillery were part of the columns, Avakov said, citing Ukrainian intelligence.

The Obama Administration has released a dozen more terrorists that the US held in Afghan prisons back into the wild;

A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that a Frenchman, a Kuwaiti and 10 Pakistani prisoners were sent back to their respective home countries at the end of May.

So, I’m sure that adds to our peaceful world, especially in the long run.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War