Jihad social media is a problem, but don't fret Obama has a Plan - Another FAILED plan!

U.S. Intelligence officials know where the Islamic State media centers are located. They know where the jihadists' toxic propaganda is churned out that is threatening U.S. citizens and the people of the free world, but Obama will not destroy them because most of them operate in civilian neighborhoods, Obama has declared them off-limits to U.S.-led airstrikes.

If we know where the jihadists are producing the anti-Christian and anti-Democratic propaganda, we should be doing everything we can to destroy those facilities. I do not think the jihadists or any Islamic Muslim Terrorist was concerned that the World Trade Center was located where thousands of innocent American civilians were working when they knocked the twin towers to the ground.

One asinine reason the Obama Administration gave for not destroying the sites is they believe leaving them online allows the Obama officials to continue studying them. They claim there is a delicate balance between needing to take action and needing to study how they operate.  They think there are better ways than bombing to take the jihadists communications media offline. Really! Then why hasn’t the Obama Administration employed their tactics to end the jihadist’s use of media for recruitment, to instill fear and to encourage their supporters.  ISIS social media has allowed ISIS to expand their influence far beyond the battlefields.

Does Obama not understand that ISIS’s online efforts are paying off?  It is a factor in their recruiting young Americans and other young Westerners to join them. Current reports estimate that between 12,000 and 15,000 young foreign fighters, including as many as 100 Americans, are currently engaged in the conflict in Syria and Iraq.  ISIS’s sophisticated use of social media will likely be copied and expanded upon by other terrorist groups as well while Obama refuses to allow the military to take the sites out.

Obama’s problem is he cannot bring himself to destroy the media centers if any civilian lives would be lost. The jihadists are intelligent enough to recognize that and they purposely put ISIS media centers in the middle of civilian neighborhoods.

 We should take pride in the fact that we try to minimize civilian deaths, but we should not threaten the lives and welfare of American citizens by doing so. Obama took an oath to protect American lives even if that means innocent civilians in war zones must be sacrificed. Do not kid yourself we are at war and that is a war zone.

The Viet Cong in Vietnam was likewise as smart. We were instructed not to hit targets with a red cross painted on them. It did not take long for a lot more buildings to be painted with red crosses. The Viet Cong took shelter and store supplies in schools, temples, hospitals and storage sheds with red crosses.

The Obama Administration and the American people have to accept that war is not a video game. You do not turn it on and off with a flick of a button. You do not eliminate your enemy without bloodshed. If we are not going to change our way of thinking and if we are to remain as passive as we are now we are going to allow the Islamic Muslim Terrorist to win. There should only be one goal for any military engagement – VICTORY!

There is an estimated 35 ISIS media organizational outfits that produce propaganda material from "all corners of the Islamic State caliphate.”  U.S. private social media companies are not going to be able to block extremist content and links from all those sites. An attempt at censorship is not going to work.  It is foolish for Obama to think it will or can. It is not the social media companies’ responsibility to fight our war with ISIS it is the responsibility of the government.  Obama will pass the buck every opportunity he has in order to avoid making tough decisions.

Obama’s administration's strategy for countering ISIS propaganda is a little-reported inter-agency messaging operation called the Center for Strategic Counter-terrorism Communications. It is located inside the State Department and it was created in 2011.  Four plus years later I see little to no results produced by this organization.  When will Obama admit it is not working? I guess at the same time he admits Obamacare is not working. The operation has only 69 employees of which a portion engage in daily dissemination of anti-Islamic State messaging in multiple languages via such social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook. They are not focused on shutting down ISIS propaganda sites. There focus is crafting messaging that exposes "weakness" and "lies" in ISIS propaganda that can be disseminated to allies around the world.  What U.S. news journalist should be doing and only a few are every day.  

They receive an annual budget of $5.5 million and complain they are being "grossly underfunded".  I believe $5.5 million annually for a failed mission is too much. The rhetoric they release to the public is the typical Federal employee propaganda - give us more money and we will do a better job. How much did the flawed Online Obamacare server cost?

Not long ago ISIS went to great lengths to produce a video mocking the U.S. military's failure to contain the Islamic State. They even went so far as to taunt America over the suicide rates among U.S. soldiers and veterans. Obama has made us the laughing stock of ISIS supporters and all Islamic Muslim Terrorist groups. If our Commander in Chief cannot lead us in a successful campaign against ISIS how could he possibly lead us in a successful campaign against China or Russia if it became necessary?

The video ISIS released stated, "You claim to have the greatest army history has known. You may have the numbers and weapons, but your soldiers lack good will and resolve." Our soldiers do not lack good will and resolve, but Obama, their Commander in Chief does.

ISIS is using the same type of media propaganda that the Viet Cong used in an attempt to demoralize our soldiers and our citizens. I remember listening to the radio while in Vietnam early one morning and heard, “Airman Thomas Martin from Houston, Texas while you kill our women and children we are watching your family back home.” Yes, it scared hell out of me! I immediately contacted my mother and told her not to talk to strangers, do not let strangers in the house, do not admit that I was her son, do not talk about me being in Vietnam, etc.

In September 2014 Obama said, "Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL - ISIS through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy. I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL - ISIS in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven."  Does Mr. Obama really believe he has contained ISIS? Does Mr. Obama think he is winning the war against ISIS? Does Mr. Obama really believe ISIS is not a threat to the U.S.?  Does Mr. Obama really believe ISIS has not found a safe haven behind women and children in neighborhoods?

Mr. Obama is trying to wait out taking action so he can pass the problems with ISIS to the next president.  Mr. Obama is a coward. Mr. Obama does not have the courage or the guts to declare an all-out effort to destroy an enemy that has declared a holy war against America and the principles for which we stand. Mr. Obama has made the United States look foolish to the rest of the world.