Jordan bombs but no outrage

[village_person]

Jordan continues their revenge on ISIS carrying out airstrikes against the terror group

JORDANIAN fighter jets have carried out new air strikes against Islamic State, the military said overnight, a day after the country’s king vowed to wage a “harsh” war against Islamic State militants who control parts of neighboring Syria and Iraq.

Earlier, the Jordanian air force carried out air strikes against targets in Mosul, killing 55 including a top IS commander known as the ‘Prince of Nineveh’, Iraqi media reported as well as the International Business Times.

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http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/jordan-continues-their-revenge-on-isis-carrying-out-airstri...

Who can blame the Jordanians for their collective pique. One Jordanian pilot is immolated and the Jordanian response is swift, brutal and perhaps disproportionate when measured against the soi-disant Professionally Outraged Group’s (POG) “disproportionate use of force meter”. A lot of Ebay community members will be familiar with the POG ‘meter’. When Israel unleashes a brutal assault on Palestinians the outrage meter reads in the very high band. However it is interesting to note that the concordant ululations and clamour that follow the disproportionate use of force exercised by Israel is absent when the death of one Jordanian is followed by the bombing of ISIS killing 55 members. Any ISIS women and children killed? Why no screams or howls from the sophomania set? Where are those rock-ribbed ‘progressives’ and their confected bathetic outrage? Why hasn’t Ban Ki-moon been wheeled out to ask Jordan to show restraint?

Ban Ki-moon, phone your office.

Just in case those Israel headlines exist at the luminal recesses of the mind here’s a reminder:

David Cameron warns Israel over Gaza after pressure from Ed Miliband

Israel used disproportionate force in Gaza, says UN humanitarian chief

Turkish President Gül warns Israel against Gaza ground operation

Israel’s war of disproportionate force in Gaza

Once again; Ban Ki-moon phone your office.

[vicr3000]

Air drops are notorious for not always landing where you want them to.

Stores or people !!! LOL

It's not an exact science so the odd mistake will be made.

[iapetus_rocks]

I thought it was a very odd mistake.

[vicr3000]

Someone cocked up.

Got the DZ location wrong

Miscalculated wind and off set.

Pilot flew wrong track

Dropped too late or too early

Or just chose a DZ too close to the enemy.

Not a good look either way.

[dwilke33]

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

Thursday's air strikes came a day after King Abdullah II pledged to avenge the death of captured Jordanian military pilot Moaz al-Kassasbeh, who was burned alive by ISIL members.

The strikes were "the beginning of our retaliation", Judeh told CNN, adding that his country was going after ISIL "with everything we have".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/jordan-expands-isil-air-strikes-iraq-targets-150206065821193.h...

My question is "why wasn't Jordan going after ISIL with everything they have, before?"

Why isn't the US going after ISIL with everything they have? Why isn't the UK? Why isn't Australia? Why isn't Turkey?

It's like it's a sort of modulated action against ISIL. Like we're making a show of it but we're not really serious about destroying them. Didn't the USA even drop weapons supplies into an ISIL area by "mistake" when ISIL were attacking Kobane?

I cannot take their (collective) avowed intention to destroy ISIL seriously. They could do more.

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Because we have a president who doesn't know his a$$ from a hole in the head, that's why.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

I wonder why Jordan didn't have a stronger position against ISIS before this incident.

I question their sincerity. If ISIS is so bad then why did it take the murder of just one person to galvanize their response?

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The Jordanian Government was having to tread very cautiously, because there was a lot of resistance on the part of the Jordanian public to the country going to war against fellow Muslims, and I guess there was always a danger if the government pushed too hard that that resistance might have led to active support for ISIS within Jordan. The gruesome murder of one of their own has turned public opinion vehemently in favour of "let's get the **bleep**s!" and the government now has carte blanche to go in with all guns blazing (literally)

[iapetus_rocks]

So this is their Pearl Harbor event which tips public support in favour of real resistance?

"The Jordanian Government was having to tread very cautiously, because there was a lot of resistance on the part of the Jordanian public to the country going to war against fellow Muslims. . . "

The Sunni and the Shia hate each other and would see each other destroyed if they could.

The ISIL are extremist Sunni.

I can understand the political grievances which the Muslim world has against the West. So far, the Muslim world is divided . . . they all hate the West, but they (Sunni - Shia) hate each other more.

I don't much like Islam in any of its manifestations and I am waiting for the people to wake up from their bad religious dream and to embrace some real humanity and some compassion.

I'd like to see this happen in my lifetime, but being a realist, I see faint chance of that.

I see their political greivance against the West, but they muddy the waters by bringing their religious disputes along with them.

We are living in a cynical 21st century world and they are living in the romantic middle ages, unable to separate their politics from their religion.

[***super_nova***]

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@vicr3000 wrote:

The PLO (et al) wasn't much better.

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PLO was fighting occupying forces of THEIR land.

[vicr3000]

Not all their land.

The PLO was a terrorist organisation that hijack aircraft, blew them up, killed passengers and others.

[***super_nova***]

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

I cannot take their (collective) avowed intention to destroy ISIL seriously. They could do more.

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Nobody has an appetite for another war.  Americans spent over decade & $ trillions fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, lost thousands of men, and look at that region now. 

[dwilke33]

The only misguided president regarding Iraq was/is obama.  He's the one who removed all military support from the region.  No other intelligent or logical president who have made such a blunder.

That's what is amiss with Iraq today, and also Afghanistan.  Dumb leadership.  Period.