-——It’s going to be a bad century for everybody.——
Or, the ability if ISIL to project is trivial.
Their actual effect is not great when compared to WW II and millions of deaths. The deaths produced by ISIL out of their theater is very small when compared to ordinary murders or auto accidents.
In the grand scheme of things, the projections of ISIS on the world don’t really amount to much
“In the grand scheme of things, the projections of ISIS on the world don’t really amount to much”
We live in an open, unguarded culture. It only takes one or two individuals to catapult the populace into terror and angst. Recall the Beltway Snipers and the tense focus they caused? Incidentally, this is a quote from the Wiki article on them: “A series of trial exhibits suggested Malvo and Muhammad were motivated by an affinity for Islamicist Jihad.” We’ve entered an era of asymmetric warfare by individuals and organizations (some of which Obama is financing) against not the military or a nation, but the civilian populace. It doesn’t take a significant number of deaths to tie up the populace and to prevent people from going about their normal lives (evidence TSA). My sister is fond of saying that we can only live as well as our neighbors will allow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks