I saw a brief video from a cell phone by Frenchmen leaving the scene of one of the attacks last night. They were singing the French national anthem. It reminded me of a scene from the classic move Casablanca. My heart goes out to them.
Je suis un Parisian!
The truth is, in moments like these, as humans we look for things to be inspired. We have resolve - we are Armericans, we are French, whatever. We won't be defeated by evil. Boston Strong. We are New Yorkers. God Bless America. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish a single candle.
The reality is that it is beyond rational human capacity to slaughter innocent civilians who were doing nothing more than living their lives. For effect, these subhumans have filmed decapitations, flown planes into buildings, detonated human bombs in public places. Radical Islamists have created a movement fueled purely by hatred and satisfied only by blood. The Nazis and Hitler someone convinced a developed nation to believe they were superior genetically - Aryan - and that Germany needed to maintain ethnic purity by eradicating Jews and others. Not surprisingly, a goal of Islamic radicals is also to destroy Jews and Israel, a view voiced by leaders of Iran (who we've negotiated a treaty with). Thankfully, Nazi's fought a conventional war and could be overcome once the U.S. might and will entered WWII. Radical Islam is insidious and operates in shadows - except in the cities they have taken control of in Middle Eastern countries.
They will be destroyed because they must be destroyed. Our President lacks the resolve, desire, or courage to do so. 2017 can't get here fast enough.
Imagine for a second if our military decided to indiscriminately level the cities where Isis (the junior varsity) has taken control. I don't believe for a second that as they were described as the junior varsity that our middle east intelligence didn't know they were seizing control of large parts of countries. Imagine if our response to terrorism was to publicly announce that we would seek out the families of any terrorist, dead or alive, and murder their entire extended families - that their blood would be the price to pay for slaughtering innocents. It would be inhuman, and evil. If a natural disaster shook the middle east, in any country, America would lead the humanitarian response - because our culture is in essence good. Even when Bin Laden was executed, we gave him a proper Islamic burial,
In an electronic age, where every call, every text message, every website visit, every email, every facebook post, codified or not, is traceable and recordable, these animals can and will be destroyed. All it takes is resolve. A world wide will. It's way beyond changing the way they think. I can't separate their religion from their evil. I've spoken to a lot of Muslims - good people - over the years. Even in agreeing in the nature of atrocities, they will counter with, "But you should understand why these radicals hate America." I shouldn't and I don't, and neither should any rational person. Good is good, and evil is evil. Good, wherever it lives, should be celebrated and nurtured. Evil, wherever it lives, must be brought to justice, and when necessary, destroyed.
