08-21-2014, 02:37 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
You've got that last part completely backwards. The 3 jihadis who just executed this journalist are BRITS. They were raised and radicalized in London, and went to Syria and elsewhere to do their thing.
And if allowed to, they will be back to Britain.
Also, like al Qaeda before it, ISIS is not a static group of people you can exterminate. ISIS is an ideology, a perverse, twisted idea of Islam.
You can't bomb, capture, or kill an ideology, you can only hope that it's followers, present and future, come up with something better to do with their time. Extremism will always be around - I suspect that in a year or two we won't even be discussing ISIS, but some other group will have taken their place. The best thing we can do is help the region grow economically, so that people have hope, and support political stability that reflects what the people actually want.
We can identify and arrest the specific people who did this terrible crime, and we will. But they will be martyrs for their cause, it won't be a deterrent.
If we don't destroy (decimate, ruin, incapacitate, etc.) ISIS, they will indeed be around, running an Islamo-fascist state over the entire Levant, one that will make even the Iranian theocrats look like pussycats. Head-in-the-sand is what led to WWII.
/Mr Lynn