This is indicative of a civilian population that is the enemy. Someone is teaching that child to kill.deadheadskier wrote: I think the only way this stops has to come from the highest religious leadership in Islam. There needs to be a wholesale denouncement of Sharia law and it's complete removal from the religion.
Yes, we can use tactics of war. Carpet bombing is an act of genocide unless you know a very high percentage of who you are bombing are a threat. What percentage of Raqqa are ISIS followers.
One thing we know is that radical Islamists aren't afraid of death. You kill one and another kid growing up just joins the ranks. Unless we can find a way for to get the good Muslims to police against the bad Muslims at a wholesale level, we will perpetually be putting out fires.
It is time to invoke the Afghanistan edict. IE if you give aid, shelter or comfort to the enemy, then you are also the enemy.
That doesn't mean invade all the countries on that list, but it does mean publicly and loudly confront the enablers. Stop the flow of money that flows to Jihadists. Take the oil held by ISIS and give it to NATO. Make it known that NATO will hold that territory and use that revenue for counter terrorism until Islamic Terrorism stops.
Here in the US, sympathizing or aiding the enemy should be a serious war crime. Not just regular crime. Declare it a war crime.
As shocking as it is, the amount of death so far in the US and the world has not been at the level to threaten our survival. What has been threated is our way of life. Our ability to go to the airport without being subjected to search. Our ability to go celebrate at a night club or fireworks display without fear and an armed presence to protect us. We therefore need to keep our response proportional, and not emotional.
The Islamic religion needs to loudly and publicly renounce the Jihad, renounce the terrorism, renounce the killing in the name of religion. Without that, they cannot be viewed as neutral. Killing and terrorism cannot be allowed to hide behind the first amendment, anymore than yelling fire in a theater is. Until Muslims publicly, loudly and continually renounce Jihad and terrorism, and until they stop being neutral, they must be seen, treated and labled as an enabler.
Notice I said enabler. We should not denounce the entire religion, but we do need to denounce the enabling.
Bubba was correct months ago on the Muslim faith needing to have their reformation. It is clear that it is our job to hasten that along, rather than idly wait and hope.