YOU GOT TO HAVE A SCORECARD TO KNOW THE PLAYERS

YOU GOT TO HAVE A SCORECARD TO KNOW THE PLAYERS

(FRAZER CHRONICLE)

(All the News That Nobody Else Will Print)

Bam!  Right between the eyes, another terrorist group, this one has been bombed before the citizens at large here in the United States knew that it existed.  Thank God for the Pentagon, bless Eric Holder, and those pilots who carried out bombing raids yesterday in 22 different places in Syria…..I’ll sleep better tonight…..no wonder I didn’t sleep very well last night.

 

The first I heard about this newest of terrorists was early this afternoon, and to be frank, I thought it was some sort of new international investment company. The 1:00 P.M. news kept referring to the Khorasan Group, I figured there’d be more competition for the Smith & Barney Group…..but no, as I listened, I came to understand that the newsman was talking about a brand new terrorist group that was going to be a BIGGER threat than ISIS, or ISIL, or, well you get the idea.

 

The United States has designated 65 different terrorists groups who “hate us,” and want to do “harm” to us. Apparently these terrorist groups also want to do harm to the United Kingdom, because England identifies 69 groups that want to harm the Brits.

 

The United States has a long history of battling foreign terrorist groups, listing no less than 11 different that were causing trouble, since as far back as 1988, the African National Congress and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The U.S. lists these two, and 10 others who are now defunct, as terror groups that the United States seems to have outlasted.

 

There are 163 total movements or organizations throughout the world in 2014 that are designated as terrorist groups who carry out mayhem, displacing people, and cause general disruption in their targeted countries.

 

In my list of 163 groups, I find no mention of either the Khorasan Group, or another front, the Nusra, and with good reason, neither existed before 2012. The Nusra Front came into existence in 2012 and the Khorasan Group in June of this year.

 

There is no end to the number of terror groups that the United States and other allied nations can point out as aggressive groups worthy of military confrontation. The number of affiliated people must number in the hundreds of thousands, those active members and the citizenry who sympathize with their cause.

 

WHILE CONGRESS WAS OUT TO LUNCH

Daily President Obama is getting dragged across out coals for his decision to authorize bombing runs in Syria…..it would seem almost equally from the left as well as the right. I’m not sure I can figure out the right, given the fact that they seem to like war and all that the word implies. And to be frank and honest, I can’t figure out some of those on the right who talk about ISIS, or ISIL, or these other terror groups as 3^rd world towel heads. Discounting your enemy is the first deadly sin in a confrontation.

 

There is a general prohibition against the use of force in international law; this ban is clearly codified in the United Nations Charter under Article 2 (4) which requires states to “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force.”

 

Of course there is a caveat…..there’s always a caveat, and in the UN Charter, there are two recognized exception to this general prohibition, states may use force in self-defense (Article 51), and the UN Security Council may authorize the use of force for the purpose of protecting international peace and security.

 

On August 14, 2014, the UN Security Council passed resolution 2170 deploring the terrorist’s acts of ISIL, and its “continued gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights.” Acting under Chapter VII, it urged all states to protect civilians’ population and to cooperate in bringing ISIL to justice. However a key phrase which grants the use of force was missing from the proclamation…..”all necessary means,” which is key for member nations to use exactly what “all necessary means,” means.

 

In the United States, in order for a sitting president to declare war on another nation, he’s supposed to have the approval of congress. He can use military force on another nation for a period of 60 days, plus an additional 30 days if he deems a situation dangerous to, almost anybody or anything…..even the president’s dog.

 

The 1973 War Powers Act was supposed to reign in the president’s power to make war, but those rules have been circumvented on numerous occasions…..pretty much as we all know. What the president and his advisors have done is to interoperate the UN declaration of this past August as a free pass to use whatever military force is necessary to defeat ISIL until the next terrorists group is identified, and deemed a threat.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!