I totally understand where you are coming from, and you are right.
Now I guess I want to technically say, look at the path ISIS is taking. Look at what they are actually doing as a fact. Look at what they are saying.
Forget for a minute and look at just that. What do you see?
What do you feel?
I am going to bump a video, and I hope you will watch it.
Quoting: Mountain Woman Can you tell me how what they are saying is any different than what we were told 'Al Qaeda' was saying? Do you remember all those 'terror tapes' that would make their ways onto the front pages of the news organizations with individuals in Arabic clothing threatening to make the American streets run red with blood? What happened to those threats? Do you still believe those threats from over 10 years ago now? How many times were we warned something was going to happen only to watch it fail to materialize time and time again?
Who is funding this current group? Which countries benefit from the destablization of this region of the world?
The article you quoted in your original post says quote "
to target U.S. interests"... That's not the same as saying "the U.S. homeland".... 'Interests' means anything we claim to be in support of overseas - which could be specific governments, embassies, military installations, etc.
How exactly is a group of 3,000 - 5,000 militants taking control of parts of Iraq a threat to the U.S. homeland and American citizens here?