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If You Want To Stop ISIS, Here Is What It Will Take
2014-08-30
Angelo Codevilla at The Federalist writes common sense with an inside-the-beltway look. He's right though his thinking is conventional and statist. A more magnificent bastard like Dick Cheney would call up the appropriate CIA office and let loose some substantial, quiet wet-work until the surviving rulers of Qatar, Saudi-controlled Arabia and yes, even Turkey, would do as we 'ask'.

Though there's no reason why both approaches couldn't be tried at the same time.

The idiot who wrote the other day (and who Fred methodically took apart) about our need to "understand" evil (and not call it 'evil') would miss this important codicil: yes, we need to understand evil thoroughly. We need to understand the 'context'. Then we need to kill it. Understanding it will make sure we get the killing done.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  ISIS seems to be custom made to appall Westerners, just saying.

<tinfoil hat>
Is ISIS a manufactured distraction for the West, buying Iran the time needed for nuclear breakout?
</tinfoil hat>

Even if there's no such conspiracy, isn't an aggressive, openly hostile somewhat stable islamofascistic regime with nuclear tipped ballistic missile capability a far bigger threat than 'ISIS'?

What would be easier to undo, an ISIS conquest of additional Syrian and Iraqi territories or Iran's new nuclear weaponry?

I'm not trying to defend ISIS, I just don't understand the priorities.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2014-08-30 15:36  

#3  What needs be done has been said. There needs to be a quiet bloodbath in some rich homes in Qatar, Riyahd, and Istanbul, with one or two very public bullet-to-head strikes pour encourager les aitres. Accompanied by a very loud and violent, no quarters battle in Sunni areas of Iraq and Syria. Kill the head and beat the thrashing body of this snake until it stops moving.

We need to impose consequences on the financiers. Permanent and severe consequences.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-08-30 11:12  

#2  ISIS seems to be custom made to appall Westerners, just saying.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-08-30 06:37  

#1  Warms the cockles of my bright Heart - "we need to understand evil thoroughly. We need to understand the 'context'. Then we need to kill it. Understanding it will make sure we get the killing done."
Posted by: newc   2014-08-30 03:48