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Obama Deploys New Logo to Defeat ISIS
Chafing under criticism that they aren’t taking the threat from ISIS seriously, the State Department has launched an initiative to bring the barbarian terrorists to heel. Foregoing crude tactics like the threat of force or aggressive diplomacy, the Obama Administration has returned to what it knows best. They have created a logo:
This doesn’t offend me as an American; it offends me as a graphic designer. That is a rough-looking pile of clip art. But if the seven fonts and eight colors prove insufficient to scare away the jihadists, State also has a blog post outlining their strategy to defeat Islamist terror solve violent extremism.
Their detailed plan? To ask commenters for suggestions:
This week, the White House hosted a Summit to Counter Violent Extremism to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence. These efforts have become even more imperative in light of recent, tragic attacks throughout the world. At the Summit, Secretary of State John Kerry said, “Our goal today is to take this chance to think broadly about how to prevent violent ideologies from taking hold, and how to prevent terrorist networks…from linking up with aggrieved groups elsewhere, and how to prevent them from thereby expanding their influence.”
Secretary Kerry described this effort as the “the defining fight of our generation” and a task not just for governments but everyone, including civil society, the faith community, foundations and philanthropists, and the private sector. The Secretary urged the Summit participants to provide their ideas and suggestions on how we can counter violent extremism, and we ask you:
What solutions do you think are most critical to countering violent extremism?
We are so screwed.
If you would like to submit your ideas to the team that shipped James Taylor to Paris, here’s the link. But if you advocate a solution that requires a carrier group instead of MS Paint, get ready for a detailed IRS audit. The Obama administration might wear kid gloves when dealing with the Islamic State, but they’ll switch to brass knuckles for domestic critics.
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What solutions do you think are most critical to countering violent extremism?
See “bombs, nuclear.”
When you go to the state department link to give them your suggestion on how to end violent extremism, here is the logo you see:
Fitting, isn’t it?
Does this campaign against violent extremism mean we’re finally going to bring the Fast and Furious perps to justice? And that the administration is going to quit arming our local police forces with military grade weapons?
In the future, ethicists will debate whether it was morally defensible for the United States to deploy such a powerful logo against the Islamic State when we could have used conventional hashtags against them.
Don’t be silly. Of course not. This is the State Department. They only arm other countries’ violent extremists.
Man I thought you were kidding. But I looked 30 seconds ago and they have Kerrey on the page.
Kid gloves on the way
http://youtu.be/CzGAXT8pi3g
Don’t mind reality. Carry on.
They need a logo? They could go with some variant of this:
Hello,
This is one of those disconnects I really don’t get. For years there’s been a drone assassination program going on, now air attacks on the Middle East, deployment of troops to odd places, and probably other military measure going on. Yet there’s this message put out by the WH that it is the most reasonable peace of place on Earth i.e. lets talk, but always from a liberal politicain point of view. I just figure that the WH is putting that message out for domestic political consumption, but those who really hate us out in the world know better.
Feel free to disagree, as I know you will :)
Arahant, I would like to engage with you and educate your soul so you become involved in a community. If we partner together and support each other, will you stop slamming your head against the desk?
Oh, you’re good. But can you create a sestina using those six as the end words?
I would need a mentor. Perhaps Julia could help.
I guess I’ll need to partner my 80 year-old Chinese neighbour to support him (and me) in resisting the gravitational pull of violent extremism that exists in all our communities. This scourge is exactly like an outbreak of zombies; it can happen anywhere, anytime, to anyone, utterly randomly!
I’m so grateful that $[insert figure here] was spent on this defining fight of our generation (hey wait, I thought that was global warming/climate change).
You can see see some innovative thinkers put work into this project. I think, perhaps, they had this man working for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fP4emqw7O4
I really love the cat wearing the “mittons” and falling off the table…..
NO. NO. NO.
” It Takes a Village ! “
In Islam, dogs are unclean! You are proposing a hate crime. Expect to receive a visit from a DHS SWAT team!
Chin up folks! If nothing else, this exercise has helped to stimulate the economy. I’m sure it required at least 25 consultants, 3 project managers, 8 steering committee members, and 4 executive sponsors working for 8 months (at an average billing rate of $285 per hour each) to develop the logo. Let’s give it a round figure of $17 million.
The restaurants and clothiers of DC are thriving! This is brilliant!
So, anyone out there want to mentor a terrorist? Anyone? Anyone?
Not that coffee and hugs aren’t good, but I think somewhere in that little solution circle they have to work in the words Crush, Kill, Destroy.
I like the idea of the logo and its components, but I’d like to suggest a change or two in those components:
Currently, they are:
I suggest a slight change to:
Does anyone else find the color palette for that logo strangely similar to an infant’s dirty diaper?
So much fun to find ways around the CoC.
I’ve been studying the suggestions made here and clearly the not-Islamic jihad problem is close to being solved. The final piece of the solution could be John Kerry taking the Silhouettes to Mosul so they could lay this on ISIS. Case closed.
I think the video footage needs some editing by EJ Hill. :)
I totally thought Jon was playing a joke on us. A piece of solid satire. Dear Lord, it’s real???
This is what you get when you hand the reins over to a tenured college professor.
To me, it is reminiscent of what my dog left behind after eating an entire 64 crayon box of Crayolas.
Associated Student Body… high school student government
I don’t suppose the next suggestion will be to hold a dance?
We are so screwed. This administration cannot think, talk or act appropriately. When I first glanced at this article, I thought it was satire.
I checked, too. It’s all nonsense and nincompoopery.
I too, thought it was satire at first. Instead, it’s another fine example of our tax dollars at work!