Thursday, November 19, 2015

How to stop ISIS

ISIS is a movement, an ideology, trying to become a nation state.  It's strength is ideological.  ISIS is strong enough to draw young people from Europe and the US to travel to Syria and take up arms with them.  It's strong enough to get Western useful idiots to cover for them.  It's ideals and motivation are unspeakably vile.  Stopping ISIS is not only a military problem. We have to name  their ideals, their ideology, and motives as anathema thru out the world. 
   For openers, people who travel to ISIS lands and take up arms with ISIS are levying war against the United States, adhering to our enemies, and giving them aid and comfort.  That's treason, Article III Section 3 US constitution.  We should at least lift their US passports,  put them on the no-fly list, revoke any security clearances they might have, or hope to obtain, and put their names on a public traitor's list.  Or anything else that the law allows.
   We need a good comedy movie, making the ISIS people look like uncouth barbarians, and stupid to boot. Not to say ugly and gross.  Some TV episodes on the same vein would be good.
   We need to get Muslim clerics of some seniority to publicly condemn ISIS.  And repeat for each new ISIS atrocity.  And we need to apply some heat to our own intellectuals when they make excuses for ISIS.  
    We need to clear them off the Internet.  I've mentioned this before.
    We need to cut off their access to banks, credit cards, time payments, traveler's checks, wire transfers.  And embargo them.  And prevent them from selling oil.
    We need to put a no fly zone over any friends or allies in the ISIS lands.  Enforced by USAF and Patriot missiles.
   We need to have Christian clerics preach the words of Jesus after each ISIS atrocity.   Make the points about thou shalt not kill, love thy enemies, and contrast it with ISIS brutality.
   We need to close down madrassa's, world wide.  Madrassa's don't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, they teach hatred.
   Then we need to do the military things, invade the ISIS lands, depose the ISIS government structures, prosecute and punish ISIS criminals,  set up a decent system of elementary education, set up honest and fair courts, set up a humane police force, do land reform so the peasants who work the land have good title to it.  Establish a democratic free enterprise capitalist government.  We vet the candidates and select for honesty, at least a high school education,  a clean record in regards to ISIS activity, drug running, smuggling, and protection racketeering.   We write the constitution and we enforce it when necessary.  We include strict term limits on all officeholders. We count the votes in elections.
   To do the military things we need US forces, and we need local allies.  Just having troops from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, carrying their national flags, will do a lot to quell ISIS resistance.  Skip Turkey or Israel, too many hard feelings from past times.
     

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