Where are the human shields?

So the news comes that two F/A-18s have attacked ISIL/ISIS/Islamic State troops. A couple of 500 pound bombs on a few towed artillery pieces were the first target at about 6:45 eastern time today, according to the Washington Times

“Two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Erbil,” Rear Adm. Kirby said. “ISIL was using this artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending Erbil where U.S. personnel are located.”

A small clutch of U.S. advisers have been based in the city during recent weeks, assessing the capability of Kurdish forces to defend the region. No other details were immediately provided.

Of course, this is immediately on the heels of the President’s announcement last night. According to another Washington Times article, Democrats are applauding the President’s decision;

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said early Friday that it was “appropriate that the President authorized airstrikes against [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] should they threaten U.S. personnel and other interests in Erbil or elsewhere in Iraq.”

“As the President reiterated, there is no American military solution to the situation in Iraq,” she said. “Defeating ISIS will require Iraq’s leaders to see beyond their divisions and come together to fight this common threat. These actions are the only way to achieve durable security and stability for all Iraqis.”

As someone said on Facebook, we have to bomb Iraq to find out what’s in it, according to Pelosi. She says that “there’s no military solution to…Iraq” but, that just proves that she really doesn’t understand the enemy in the middle east – there’s nothing except a military solution there. The only way to beat the jihadists is to kill them all. The only way to stop their inhumane war against people who aren’t like them is to plant them all under the Islamic Caliphate. There’s just no other rational solution.

But my question is; “where are the hippies volunteering to be human shields for ISIS?” and where are the congressmen on the roof of a Caliphate palace questioning the credibility of the president? I mean, that was the reaction from Democrats when a Republican last announce his intentions to bomb Iraq.

Are the Democrats admitting that they only support their guys when they bomb Iraq? I mean, we knew it all along, because the Democrat president before George W. Bush announced that his sole policy for dealing with Iraq was to support a regime change and the Democrat Party supported that decision and they supported Operation Desert Fox.

For the record, so did I, and I support the decision this morning to bomb a few towed artillery pieces – but then, my support for national security and the security of our deployed troops isn’t dependent upon the political stripe of the person ordering the attack. But then, I’m consistent in my support for this country, my patriotism isn’t related to partisan politics.

Category: Terror War