ISIS

The answer to foreign involvement for our government does not lie in extremes, one encouraging constant involvement and the other none at all. There is a balance that we have to find between the two. We must take into account the suffering of others, and also the potential danger that we are in. When both these criteria are high, action must be taken.

            Most agree that in wars like the World War 1 and 2 we were justified and right to get involved. Both criteria mentioned above came into play. Soldiers were dying in the war and in the Holocaust, and when we were bombed at Pearl Harbor it was a wakeup call that we had to play our part. We waited too long, hoping that the genocide in the Holocaust would go away without the expenditure of our own country’s lives, and we paid the consequence dearly in the loss of those lives lost in Pear Harbor, as well as those Jews murdered in the time we failed to act. We can’t let that happen again.

            The situation in Iraq and Syria is that kind of situation. In Iraq, the radical Sunnis are ruthlessly slaughtering all those who disagree with them. And, once again the problem is twofold.

            One article by Zev Farber, a Jewish man makes the point when he says, “I also strongly object to the bandying about of the term ‘genocide’ when it isn’t warranted. There are many terrible things in this world that deserve to be excoriated, but genocide is a specific terrible thing and should only be used accurately. Erroneous use of this term offends human decency and is an affront to the millions of dead who suffered from Hitler’s genocidal war.

For these reasons, when I hear about actual cases of genocide occurring in the world, my blood freezes. There is one happening right now.

As most readers know, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is in the midst of one of the most brutal and bloody “infidel” purges the world has seen.” The article can be found here: http://goo.gl/cbHCNO

            This slaughter of the Christians in Mozul and the less extreme “Yazidis” is akin to the Holocaust, attested to by a man who is an expert in the Holocaust. This alone should cause the US to go in and destroy ISIS, as we learned from Pearl Harbor.

            But the other half of the issue is this: ISIS specifically threatens the US on a regular basis, going out of its way to even behead American citizens on video while saying the same will follow every US citizen, as ISIS will work “Allah’s” judgment on us as a nation. See http://goo.gl/rccxW3 to read and watch one of the videos.

            We can underestimate the threat to ourselves and ignore the hurting of others for now, but it will catch up with us. We must take action before it does.