Today\’s quote comes to us from Ed Schultz.  And I can almost guarantee it is not the kind of quote you are expecting.

In fact, it is so unlike what you might expect from Mr. Schultz that I won\’t tease this anymore.  Here is what he had to say on today\’s show:

Itwas a weekend of terror around the globe. In Libya, ISIS released avideo showing more bloodshed. The video released on Sunday claims toshow the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians. The brutal act ofviolence is clearly a gross display of what ISIS is capable of, whatthey\’re motivated about, and what they are really all about. And Ithink this act of mass murder amounts to a religious war.Now we all have our own interpretations at this point. This continuesto go on. At this point these people were targeted, as I see it, andmurdered because of their faith . . . As I see it, the United Statesis going to have to have continual reviewal of its strategy. Wecan\’t sit back here and watch hordes of people get their heads cutoff. Andwhy would we tell ISIS there\’s no way we would ever put ground troopsin combat situations? Ithink it has reached a point where we really have to have a verystrong debate in this country. As I see it,it\’s a religious war. Whatis going to turn back ISIS? …

“…How do you trot out 21 people withnobody else around and do something like that? It takes organization.It takes protection, and I think it has reached a level right nowthat we\’re the United States, we might have to have a conversationthat special ops and some ground forces might be part of theequation, but basically wehave told ISIS well that\’s not going to happen. We have told othercountries who are getting hit by this group that we\’re not going toput ground troops in.

Surprised?  I sure am.  But I don\’t have anything cutesy to say about Ed\’s sudden epiphany.  Because the reasons it came about are nothing to be cutesy about.

I award Ed Schultz Quote Of The Day Honors for having the honesty to call this what it is, and suggest that we consider actions that we have to consider. 

In doing so, I understand that he has only come part-way.  There is no direct attack on Barack Obama for allowing things to get to this point, and for living in a delusional world where radical Islam doesn\’t exist; where untold thousands of deaths at their hands are less important than a few hundred housing units being built in east Jerusalem.  Not yet, anyway.

But if he can go this far, he can go further.  A lot further.  And if Ed Schultz is an honorable man, it will happen sooner rather than  later.