Defeating ISIS
The blueprint. © 2016
There are over 1 billion Muslims on the planet, and there are about 40,000 ISIS supporters. Somewhat incredibly, most of ISIS’ victims have been Muslims. Isn’t that enough of a motivation for Muslims the world over to band together to crush ISIS?
ISIS is neither 12-feet tall nor bullet proof. They’re a bunch of thugs who act like bullies. The way you deal with a bully is to smack him in the mouth and let him get a taste of his own blood.
But before ISIS is dealt with that way, the United States and other countries have to take care of a few basic issues. First, all countries have to tighten up on their immigration, specifically, their Visa Waiver programs. Flaws in the Visa Waiver program allowed 9/11 terrorists to enter the United States as well as one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
The Visa Waiver program allows business and touring citizens of participating countries easy travel entry into the United States without a Visa, and they can stays of 90 days or less. This policy needs to be revised.
Back to the thugs called ISIS. Nearly every nation on the planet has valid reasons to be against ISIS--for its terrorist acts and for what it represents. You can count among those nations, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Nigeria, Kenya, Japan, Jordan, Canada, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Australia, India, and China, just to name a few.
Those are some of the most powerful nations in the world. All of them have enormous economic and military might. But for some unexplained reason, these nations have allowed petty differences to prevent them from uniting to destroy ISIS. Take the United States and Russia. The U.S. will not coordinate with Russia because Russia supports Syrian leader Assad. Russia will not work with the United States because it wants to keep Assad in power. But shouldn’t destroying ISIS be the number one priority?
Let’s unite to get rid of ISIS first. We could put the Assad matter on the back burner for now. But first things first.
When you’re dealing with people who don’t respect humanity or law, like ISIS, you cannot play nice. The civilized nations of the world have to get down and in-the-mud nasty. You have to do unto terrorists what the terrorist do unto you. If it means beheading terrorists to let them taste their own medicine, so be it.
Quite often, when the civilized man is in conflict with the uncivilized man, the uncivilized man has an advantage. You see, the uncivilized man’s actions aren’t restrained by conscience or law. However, the civilized man’s actions are. To eliminate the uncivilized man, the civilized man cannot afford to play nice.
What this all means is let the terrorists taste their own cooking, so to speak. We have to be as brutal towards terrorists as they have been towards others.Terrorists think they have a monopoly on fear and terror, and that’s been their strength. The nations of the world must teach ISIS a lesson, and they have to be just as ruthless when doing it.
With so many nations ticked off by ISIS, you would think stopping ISIS would be easy. But none of these nations wants to get their hands dirty. Most of them, including Mideast nations, want the US, and Western nations, to do all the heavy lifting. But they have money, resources, and an army, too. Let each nation commit troops and weapons towards the fight.
More importantly, why can’t there be a conference of nations to coordinate a military strategy? Then, let these nations assemble troops and surround ISIS fighters in key cities. This kind of commitment by nations could eliminate this band of degenerate misfits in less than a year.
Fighting terrorism is every nation’s responsibility. But other nations cannot sit back and expect the United States to do it all, nor should the United States do it all. We spent trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan. That money could have been used to fix our infrastructure, fund apprentice programs, research and development, education assistance, and more.
The United States must insist that other nations carry their weight in the fight against ISIS. Our country’s leaders cannot allow a massive ego and a cowboy mentality to take on expensive military adventures alone.
Republicans have criticized Pres. Obama’s approach. But he has kept the United States out of unnecessary wars. It was Republicans who got the US involved in Iraq, a move that created a vacuum in the Mideast which made it possible for ISIS to emerge.
It’s easy for Republicans to advocate military adventures when they don’t have relatives doing the fighting. If they really believe in more military adventures, let them prove it by reviving the military draft.
Then, everyone will be eligible to serve in military adventures irrespective of class or income. As of now, America’s military is mostly poor Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. They’re doing the heavy lifting while the offsprings of America’s war hawks evade military service.
The blueprint. © 2016
There are over 1 billion Muslims on the planet, and there are about 40,000 ISIS supporters. Somewhat incredibly, most of ISIS’ victims have been Muslims. Isn’t that enough of a motivation for Muslims the world over to band together to crush ISIS?
ISIS is neither 12-feet tall nor bullet proof. They’re a bunch of thugs who act like bullies. The way you deal with a bully is to smack him in the mouth and let him get a taste of his own blood.
But before ISIS is dealt with that way, the United States and other countries have to take care of a few basic issues. First, all countries have to tighten up on their immigration, specifically, their Visa Waiver programs. Flaws in the Visa Waiver program allowed 9/11 terrorists to enter the United States as well as one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
The Visa Waiver program allows business and touring citizens of participating countries easy travel entry into the United States without a Visa, and they can stays of 90 days or less. This policy needs to be revised.
Back to the thugs called ISIS. Nearly every nation on the planet has valid reasons to be against ISIS--for its terrorist acts and for what it represents. You can count among those nations, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Nigeria, Kenya, Japan, Jordan, Canada, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Australia, India, and China, just to name a few.
Those are some of the most powerful nations in the world. All of them have enormous economic and military might. But for some unexplained reason, these nations have allowed petty differences to prevent them from uniting to destroy ISIS. Take the United States and Russia. The U.S. will not coordinate with Russia because Russia supports Syrian leader Assad. Russia will not work with the United States because it wants to keep Assad in power. But shouldn’t destroying ISIS be the number one priority?
Let’s unite to get rid of ISIS first. We could put the Assad matter on the back burner for now. But first things first.
When you’re dealing with people who don’t respect humanity or law, like ISIS, you cannot play nice. The civilized nations of the world have to get down and in-the-mud nasty. You have to do unto terrorists what the terrorist do unto you. If it means beheading terrorists to let them taste their own medicine, so be it.
Quite often, when the civilized man is in conflict with the uncivilized man, the uncivilized man has an advantage. You see, the uncivilized man’s actions aren’t restrained by conscience or law. However, the civilized man’s actions are. To eliminate the uncivilized man, the civilized man cannot afford to play nice.
What this all means is let the terrorists taste their own cooking, so to speak. We have to be as brutal towards terrorists as they have been towards others.Terrorists think they have a monopoly on fear and terror, and that’s been their strength. The nations of the world must teach ISIS a lesson, and they have to be just as ruthless when doing it.
With so many nations ticked off by ISIS, you would think stopping ISIS would be easy. But none of these nations wants to get their hands dirty. Most of them, including Mideast nations, want the US, and Western nations, to do all the heavy lifting. But they have money, resources, and an army, too. Let each nation commit troops and weapons towards the fight.
More importantly, why can’t there be a conference of nations to coordinate a military strategy? Then, let these nations assemble troops and surround ISIS fighters in key cities. This kind of commitment by nations could eliminate this band of degenerate misfits in less than a year.
Fighting terrorism is every nation’s responsibility. But other nations cannot sit back and expect the United States to do it all, nor should the United States do it all. We spent trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan. That money could have been used to fix our infrastructure, fund apprentice programs, research and development, education assistance, and more.
The United States must insist that other nations carry their weight in the fight against ISIS. Our country’s leaders cannot allow a massive ego and a cowboy mentality to take on expensive military adventures alone.
Republicans have criticized Pres. Obama’s approach. But he has kept the United States out of unnecessary wars. It was Republicans who got the US involved in Iraq, a move that created a vacuum in the Mideast which made it possible for ISIS to emerge.
It’s easy for Republicans to advocate military adventures when they don’t have relatives doing the fighting. If they really believe in more military adventures, let them prove it by reviving the military draft.
Then, everyone will be eligible to serve in military adventures irrespective of class or income. As of now, America’s military is mostly poor Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. They’re doing the heavy lifting while the offsprings of America’s war hawks evade military service.