I don’t know what ISIS intended … but I want to
see thousands of them in the sky blotting out the blue, and obliterate
the entire culture which spawned this sub human behavior so that anyone
with such desires, REMEMBERS.
One big bomb seems to lack something for me this morning.
The Yezidis, the Kurds, the Christian Iraqis all lived in a stewing hell which has now boiled.
But there is nothing in the desert, is there?
And the dusty cities? Are they now filled with the hating super salafi freaks?
Will we save hundreds of thousands, or millions to make it all look like the Tokyo of 1945 above?
12 well placed bombs from F-18’s will not achieve what must be achieved.
That is the sad and disgusting truth.
ISIS is the penultimate achievement of what has become the ascendant form of Islam in our world.
It’s entire birthing culture is at fault.
The time for excuses based on Assad, or Maliki, or Wahab, or the Quran is now passed. If we allow these ideas to survive as a culture, what happens next will be our faults.
I want to think about football. The baseball off season. Stacking wood. Seeing my grandchildren. Watching the mist on the lake in the mornings. Kayaking and hiking in the fall color. I wanted to read that Mosul is like Paris, and the Iraqi desert a place where tree after tree has been made to bloom.
But we have to recognize what is and what can never be.
Obliterate whatever is called for.
Arm the Kurds in their new free Kurdistan, to whatever degree is called for. Let them swarm to and over the Syrian border and drive to the Mediterranean if it can be done. Who will be worse off?
The Syrians being bombed everyday in crumbling cities? The Iraqis scattering before the salafi warlord MUTANTS? Will we shed tears for the crushed Shia freaks of Hizballah? Anyone going to miss Nasrallah? Miss the salafi head cutters?
The Kurds are our BEST and strategic friends, and it’s time for a bold action.
The time has come to realize a reckoning is unavoidable. It was here in 2001 but instead we chose to make John Adams and Jeffersons in Kabul.
3,000 deaths cannot have taught us what 1 death makes obvious.
Civilized hopes are foolish.
It’s going to have to be a solution achieved by BOLD ACTION, risking whatever has to be risked, and destroying whatever has to be destroyed, thus creating something which will last as NATO did, into the lives of the grandchildren of the founders.
One big bomb seems to lack something for me this morning.
The Yezidis, the Kurds, the Christian Iraqis all lived in a stewing hell which has now boiled.
And the dusty cities? Are they now filled with the hating super salafi freaks?
Will we save hundreds of thousands, or millions to make it all look like the Tokyo of 1945 above?
12 well placed bombs from F-18’s will not achieve what must be achieved.
That is the sad and disgusting truth.
ISIS is the penultimate achievement of what has become the ascendant form of Islam in our world.
It’s entire birthing culture is at fault.
The time for excuses based on Assad, or Maliki, or Wahab, or the Quran is now passed. If we allow these ideas to survive as a culture, what happens next will be our faults.
I want to think about football. The baseball off season. Stacking wood. Seeing my grandchildren. Watching the mist on the lake in the mornings. Kayaking and hiking in the fall color. I wanted to read that Mosul is like Paris, and the Iraqi desert a place where tree after tree has been made to bloom.
But we have to recognize what is and what can never be.
Obliterate whatever is called for.
Arm the Kurds in their new free Kurdistan, to whatever degree is called for. Let them swarm to and over the Syrian border and drive to the Mediterranean if it can be done. Who will be worse off?
The Syrians being bombed everyday in crumbling cities? The Iraqis scattering before the salafi warlord MUTANTS? Will we shed tears for the crushed Shia freaks of Hizballah? Anyone going to miss Nasrallah? Miss the salafi head cutters?
The Kurds are our BEST and strategic friends, and it’s time for a bold action.
The time has come to realize a reckoning is unavoidable. It was here in 2001 but instead we chose to make John Adams and Jeffersons in Kabul.
3,000 deaths cannot have taught us what 1 death makes obvious.
Civilized hopes are foolish.
It’s going to have to be a solution achieved by BOLD ACTION, risking whatever has to be risked, and destroying whatever has to be destroyed, thus creating something which will last as NATO did, into the lives of the grandchildren of the founders.
3 comments:
From Pew:
Much has been reported about the desire of many Kurds for greater autonomy or even independence from Baghdad. However, when it comes to religion, Kurds share a good deal in common with the Arab majority, especially Sunni Muslims.
Overall, Arabs represent 78% of Iraq’s population, while Kurds are 16% and other, smaller ethnic groups constitute the remainder, according to a 2011 Pew Research survey. In terms of religious sect, Iraqi Arabs are somewhat split: Our survey found that most said they were Shia Muslims (62%), but about three-in-ten identified themselves as Sunnis (30%) and 6% said they were “just Muslim.”
Nearly all Iraqi Kurds consider themselves Sunni Muslims. In our survey, 98% of Kurds in Iraq identified themselves as Sunnis and only 2% identified as Shias.
The interesting thing is, Kurds are just more Muslims, but they might be, as you say, our greatest friends.
But, if that is true, it is only true for now, and it will only continue to be true if we follow a strategy like the one you suggest.
If we did what you suggest, then the Kurds, being Muslims, would perceive us as the strong horse, and they would live in fear that we would do the same to them.
Such fear might last for a generation
Then the usual "extremist Islam" would begin to come back, fueled by hatred for what we had done to their Muslim brothers in Iraq (with whom they had been fighting to the death).
Whether it is hypocritical of them, or just ironic, the truth is, the Kurds are just Muslims and they will come to hate us too, because the Koran tells them to do so.
Pasto,
the truth is, the Kurds are just Muslims and they will come to hate us too, because the Koran tells them to do so
I think the same thing.
Stalemate?
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