We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. – Winston Churchill, June 4, 1940
Jordan’s King Abdullah angrily vowed to pursue ISIS until his military runs “out of fuel and bullets.” – February 3, 2015
Via CNS News: Pentagon Spokesman: No ‘Tit for Tat’ After Barbaric Murder of Jordanian Pilot
….But don’t expect the United States to do anything different in response to the terrorists’ latest brutal act. “It’s not tit for tat,” a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.
“I can only speak for the United States military — we haven’t made it a point to respond directly to these killings, even when these — when American citizens were killed,” Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters.
As Tammy notes:
ISIS kills Jordanian, King goes medieval on ISIS.
ISIS beheads American, Obama goes golfing.
#saysitall
— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) February 4, 2015
And, pics from Weasel Zippers:
O my Goodness! Yes, this post and the accompanying pictures say it all! If something doesn’t stop all this, will the country make it 2 more years?
Shameful. A real spokesman for the Pentagon would say that the military is ready to kill those responsible and defeat the enemy.
(In WWI, t4t created the ‘live and let live’ informal trench agreements where each side didn’t shoot if the other didn’t shoot (see wikip).)