On Thursday night, Barack Obama authorized targeted airstrikes against ISIS, along with humanitarian aid airdrops to the thousands and thousands of displaced Iraqis. He really didn’t have a choice, did he? ISIS is rapidly increasingly their brutal tactics to instill fear in its enemies across the Middle East. They’ve even boasted that they’ll raise their flag over our White House. They’re evil and violence is their creed. I suppose that beheading toddlers and Christian genocide is a bit much for even BHO to ignore.

So, enter the US military in what Barack Obama called “a long-term project“.

This.

“…from the Video of two U.S. military targeted airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in northern Iraq.

The first attack occurred about 6:45 a.m. EDT when two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. ISIL was using this artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending the city, where U.S. personnel are located.

Two additional air strikes occurred later in the day, the last at about 11:20 a.m. EDT when four F/A-18 aircraft successfully struck a stationary ISIL convoy of seven vehicles and a mortar position near Irbil, neutralizing the mortar and convoy.”

Bombing ISIS jihadis. Of course, I’d much rather see a screaming cluster bomb used to take out 1000+ of those goat boys all at once, but still, a dead terrorist is a beautiful thing.

Our “Weekend Links” are below the fold!

Great Weekend Blog Reading Links!

Teach at Pirate’s Cove is blogging about this…“Michael Mann Is So Concerned With Climate Change Induced Wildfires That He Took Long Fossil Fueled Trip.” 😉

The Other McCain has many good blog posts up including this one by Stacy on “Shrew Culture Update.”

ST at Sister Toldjah has up this post on “Govt watchdogs team up, slam Obama admin’s lack of transparency.”

Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has up this post today on “The way you talk about your garden may be racist.” It never stops.

V the K at Gay Patriot has up this blog post called “Uganda Hosts a Gay Pride.”

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, has many great posts at his blog hub from all over the blogosphere so go check them out! And you can read Glenn’s latest article in USA Today on “Public servants acting as public masters”, here.

Dana at The First Street Journal has up a great post called “Rule 5 Blogging: Women in Combat in History.” The pics are fab!

As always, Michelle Obama’s Mirror has up a great post called “#ISIS Hashtag Triggers #ObamaForeignPolicyInThreeWords Contest.”

Evil Blogger Lady has this post on “The bloodbath of Syria and Iraq is happening on President Obama’s watch.”

Donald Douglas at American Power has up this blog post on “Richard Nixon Resignation 40 Years Ago Today.”

Deebow at Blackfive has up this post, “Airstikes and Reality.”

Ann Althouse has up a number of great posts, but I like this one – “The situation near Erbil was becoming more dire than anyone expected. We didn’t want another Benghazi.”

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has up this post up… “Feinstein: We’re going to need more than a few airstrikes on ISIS.”

Neo at neo-neocon is writing about “Obama’s tough love towards Iraq: that’ll teach ‘em.”

and finally, Ace at AoSHQ has up this post on “I Love Science: Bravura Scientific Video Demonstrates Scientific Relationship Between Biological Instinct and Applied Volumetrics.” Read the comments. 🙂

Have a terrific weekend!