robert66 wrote:
"Join ISIS and you join Islam , Join Islam and you ISIS " This was on your post. Since you posted it I get the idea you agree with it. Therefore if ISIS and Islam are the same , and you want to kill ISIS , you are advocating killing all Muslims. You appear to believe there is no difference between Islam and ISIS. You can deem yourself the victor of your losing argument and try to mince words all you want but apparently you now want to deny the ignorant implications you have made.
Are you aware of just how illogical your argument is?
Does the name
Islamic
State of
Iraq and
Syria bear any implication that the terrorists are devotees of the Islamic faith?
When the ISIS killers recite suras from the Qu'ran as they stand with a knife over a bound, kneeling victim and then repeatedly shout "Allahu Ackbar" as they cut off his head, do you think they could be devotees of Islam?
There may be some on this board who advocate "killing all Muslims", but that is totally irrational thinking. Primarily because such a thing would be impractical, if not impossible.
A doctor does not kill the host of a malignant tumor in order to defeat the cancer.
The military solution to a problem like Islamic terrorism has been established for centuries. In 500 BC, Sun Tsu set down the principles for victory over an enemy and those principles have been taught in war colleges and military academies since. Every war captain worthy of the name has applied them.
Sun Tsu's first principle is to "break the enemy's will to fight WITHOUT FIGHTING." How is that accomplished? You simply build a military force of such strength that no enemy would dare fight you. And, you make it clear to the enemy that if they are foolish enough to try, you will hold nothing back and they will pay dearly.
However, Islamic Jihad, as with the Japanese near the end of the Second World War, are suicidal--kamikazes--their commitment to their objective of world domination under Sharia transcends any earthly concerns. They place little or no value on human life on earth.
So, the second principle comes into play. As with the Japanese in the Second World War (who, by the way, were preparing the entire population to fight to the death), you hurt the enemy so badly that they no longer have the will to fight. By the middle of 1945, it was clear to the allies that the Japanese Military Command had bastardized the Bushido code and demanded that every citizen glorify themselves in the name of the Emporer by sacrificing their lives. So, in order to prevent that, Truman made the decision to use the new weapon on the scene. In mid-August, 1945, folowing the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Emporer Hirohito had had enough, he ordered his military to surrender. As terrible as was the use of Atomic weapons, many lives on both sides were spared.
I am not, in any way, advocating the use of nuclear weapons in defeating Islamic Jihad, however, that option should never have been taken off the table. Nor, am I advocating "killing all Muslims". ALL Muslims is 1.6 billion people, bob, and not all of them are Jihadis. Whatever the number is of Muslims who want no part of Islamic Jihad, they are not the problem, are they? Nor, are the Jihadis themselves the real problem. The real problem is the nearly absolute failure of the leaders of the civilized nations who are the targets of the Jihad to even acknowledge that such an impacable enemy is a mortal threat to civilization.
The responses from Obama, and other national leaders, to the threat of Islamic Jihad is unconscionable, unforgivable, and shameful, and as is the case with Obama, all indications, all evidence--from the man's own mouth--is that in his rhetoric is hidden either a pathological denial that a threat exists or that he harbors a desire for an Islamic victory. He has effectively broken the back of our armed forces. He has reduced the defense budget to the level of a Banana republic, he has replaced our warriors at the top with politically correct "yes men", he has curbed weapons development and production, and virtually destroyed our troop morale--it is lower now than at any time in our history. Moreover, Obama's open border "come one, come all" policy has opened the door wide to an attack, be it chemical, biological, or even nuclear. It will not take an army of Jihadis to poison our water and food supplies, spread a lethal disease, knock out major power grids, or even, God forbid, detonate a dirty bomb or a tactical nuke in one of our major cities.
The bottom line, bob, is that ISIS is leading the Islamic Jihad and we, of sane mind and firm conviction, who recognize the threat for what it is and truly want to see an end to this insanity see no leaders willing to do whatever it takes to destroy it before it is too late.
The Islamic Regime in Iran is going to get their nuclear weapons, no one is stopping them, and there are maybe two or three national leaders who are trying desperately to sound the alarm. The military solution is simply to unleash overwhelming firepower and hammer ISIS so hard, make them pay such a dear price that that their backs are broken, economically and militarily. Sadly, that should have been done a long time ago. And, there is no indication whatsoever that it will be done now or in the near future. All I can see at this juncture is that, since leadership has failed us, we, as Individual Americans, should pray for the best and prepare for the worst. I am, for sure.