Link: American Kayla Mueller assaulted by al-Baghdadi.
Recently, while walking through a University campus in Austin, Texas, I stumbled upon an anti-military demonstration involving students. The students were protesting a number of issues, including the presence of the ROTC program in public schools and the U.S. intelligence community's ongoing efforts to combat Islamic terrorism. One young man with an opposing perspective was engaging the protesters in a polite discussion of the issues, so I stood around on the periphery and listened. After roughly twenty minutes, I moved on to my appointment. Honestly, I didn't hear anything new from either side. But I continue to be amazed at the level of ignorance demonstrated by so many university-level young people today. These thirty to forty protesters were arguing that the actions of the United States, both past and present, were the root cause of the violence committed by Al-Qaeda, ISIS, El Sendero Luminoso, Abu Sayyaf, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, and all the rest. According to these scholars of American history, the United States had a pattern of aggressively exporting its own ideology to foreign lands, sometimes at the end of a gun barrel, and that we were reaping the fruits of prior Administration's efforts at economic colonialism. What is "economic colonialism" as opposed to regular, ol' colonialism? Economic colonialism occurs when the modern and wealthy nation with a huge military forces the smaller, developing country to welcome American business and companies. Before you can say "Dole Pineapples and Bananas", these powerful American companies were exploiting the natural resources of the smaller nation and misusing its labor force. In Bolivia, we supported the silver mines, which introduced child labor and chronic pulmonary illnesses in the local community. In Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, our drug-addicted society forced these developing economies to become dependent upon exporting cocaine, until one day we changed our mind and demanded that the governments put the cocoa farmers in jail and burn their crops. We all know about the poppy fields in Afghanistan, and of course our support of Israel has kept the Arab community from having any chance whatsoever of thriving. Therefore, its no wonder that the terrorists want to kill us.
I am nobody's apologist, and this blog is not designed to tackle the heavy subject of "American Economic Imperialism". I do believe, however, that any debt owed by the United States, has been paid in great excess by the blood sacrificed to rid the world of German, Italian and Japanese fascism. I will also point out the tremendously positive impact of the technological advances pioneered by the United States, and the regular massive amount of international financial aid the is distributed in U.S. Dollars. It has also been American intellect, ingenuity and money that put a man on the moon and a spacecraft traveling to the very edge of our own galaxy. But this counts for nothing in the minds of certain people. They exist solely to search for communal guilt in one form or another. What really disturbs me is how out-of-touch so many young people are in the United States in Europe, when it comes to the inhuman and criminal actions of ISIS. In fact, the under-20 years old generation doesn't remember the events of September 11, 2001, when almost three thousand innocent Americans were incinerated by terrorists no-doubt avenging some "wrong" committed against them by the United States. I can forgive young people for not remembering 9-11, but all you need to do is turn on the news to get a dose of what has to be the most heinous displays of beheadings and executions that I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. Everyday, the media wing of ISIS gets to work on its latest batch of video releases to the appalled but voyeuristic western nations. The cancer that grew from the ashes of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, pretends to be a political movement in search of an Islamic Caliphate. In truth, it is a killing machine, that has learned how to turn subjugation and torture into an art form. These people don't represent some "offended" or "abused" community; they exist to spread their brand of vile Islamic extremism to the entire world, not just the Levant. If ISIS were only interested in the Levant, then why are they in Africa, and in Yemen, and Indonesia and the Philippines? These students who were "ashamed" that our Air Force was leading the allied air coalition against ISIS, would be the first to lose their heads if ISIS had their way. But not until they had been tortured as victimized in ways that until now were unknown to our species.
Apologists for terrorism love to compare the actions of Islamic Extremists to the Inquisition conducted by the Catholic Church so many centuries ago, and to the Crusades that were organized and financed for the purpose of keeping Jerusalem and its environs in the hands of Christians, not Muslims. History is replete with examples of religious conflict in the Christian community. But the point is, we make the point to leave that barbarity in the past, and respect our fellow man's religious choices. ISIS is attempting to take us back to the middle ages, when people were executed for their religious persuasion. But lest you start to think that ISIS' motivation has to do with expanding the teachings of the Prophet, take a look at some of the extra curricular activities of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his flock of Himmlers and Heydrichs. Anyone accused of homosexual activity will be tortured and executed, many times bring thrown from the roof of buildings. Single pregnant females are also subject to execution. All the while, al-Baghdadi and his thugs ignore all the basic tenets of Islam. Both male and female prisoners and hostages are routinely raped, and the hashish pipe has been known to make an appearance or two during down time. Any bit of luxury that can be obtained out in the middle of the Syrian desert, has found its way to al-Baghdadi's quarters. The money that is raised to support ISIS comes from a variety of sources, including oil. But is also comes from the smuggling of both women (girls, actually) and merchandise. And there is nothing in the Koran about the continual mass-executions of thousands of innocent people. There is no forgiveness with ISIS, or the opportunity for repentance, which is a major pillar of the Koran and Islam.
So if they really aren't representing Islam, then who are they? ISIS is evil incarnate, my friends. No matter how many years you have on this earth, you will never see anything so black and devoid of compassion and goodness. I have so much empathy for the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, who have lived long enough to see the emergence of something worse. The people who are driving the bus, al-Baghdadi and his supporters, want to see you and your entire family dead. I'm taking this threat seriously, but is the Obama Administration? Not by a longshot. Its all about politics, and President Obama is strictly in "Legacy Mode" right now. He's gearing up for his last, great use of Executive Action. Before he leaves office, he will sign into law an Amnesty plan that allows the roughly twenty million ethnic Mexican illegal aliens living in the United States, the opportunity to become citizens. Not Resident Aliens. And why not? Because Green Card Holders can't vote. President Obama's lasting legacy will be his attempt to turn the United States into a one-party state. So ISIS has kinda fallen off the radar. Just let Hillary deal with it.
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