{"id":46612,"date":"2014-10-29T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dale_mateson-the_u-s_is_missing_something_in_the_fight_against_isis_vision\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:29:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:29:57","slug":"dale_mateson-the_u-s_is_missing_something_in_the_fight_against_isis_vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46612","title":{"rendered":"Dale Mateson&#8211;The U.S Is Missing Something In The Fight Against ISIS: Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While no one would argue that the United States has more bombs, bullets and boots, the question is, \u201cWhy does the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continue to gain territory and to recruit young people to their cause from the western world?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Jihadists see themselves in a struggle against evil and we are the face of their evil. We are attempting to win on the battlefield but we are losing the battle for hearts and minds.<\/p>\n<p>Former Senator Birch Bayh referred to the Jihadist ideology as \u201cempty\u201d\u009d on Fox New Sunday (October 26th) If only. If only he was correct. We may kill their soldiers but their ideology, while evil, is robust, certain and virulent. The western world in general and the U.S. lack the courage of their convictions because they lack convictions. We have no vision and are lacking in moral authority. Do we honestly think that we could reinstate the draft to compel young men once again to fight this war?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanjoaquinsoundings.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/the-us-is-missing-something-in-fight.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While no one would argue that the United States has more bombs, bullets and boots, the question is, \u201cWhy does the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continue to gain territory and to recruit young people to their cause<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46612\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,143,168,144,426,203,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}