Nigeria: Another Failure for America?

Nigeria may very well become another failure for not only peaceful Islam, as I wrote in my recent post, but also of Obama's administration.  As we did with Syria, and most recently Russia, it seems we are going to be content with sitting on the sidelines or drawing multiple lines in the sand without the balls to back them up.  Women and children are still being tortured and killed in Syria and these, now 300, kidnapped schoolgirls stand an equal chance of receiving world justice if we leave the UN and America to their own devices.

This is now another example of history rearing up to kick us square in the teeth.  We have forgotten Roosevelt's foreign policy of "speak softly, but carry a big stick."  Now we use the stick to draw lines with as we cower in the light of day like the cowards we seem to have become.  We have become insensitive to the real crimes against humanity because we keep having our butts handed to us by picking the wrong battles.  Crimes against humanity, yes!  Crimea?  That is Europe's problem.  If Europe is willing to watch as Putin marches across their continent, there is nothing we can do to help.  You can't help those that don't want to be helped ar are unwilling to sacrifice.  Victory without sacrifice is no victory and will not hold.

Islam's inability, or lack of desire, to chain up another rabid dog that is using the Qur'an as an excuse for their atrocities would seem to send a unified message of complicit hatred for mankind.  The fact that the rest of mankind are willing to take the atrocities in stride says much for how we learn lessons of history.

I will say it again, shame on Islam and shame on the rest of us!  Islam is better than this, and we as a country have certainly been better than this.