“So I am asking the bright people of FR to help me out here. Can y’all think of anything we might be missing, that we could be doing, as private individuals, right now, with the resources we do have, to mess with ISIS, disrupt their slave trade, or otherwise hurt their cause and drive down their strength? Any thoughts?”
As I posted above, this is an excellent opportunity to motivate those so inclined to truly do something about these atrocities. One may argue that such would be ‘taking matters into ones own hands’, and they’d be correct. What the savages are doing defies not only man made laws, but natural law as well. When we as a nation have the MB at the highest levels of our government, we cannot expect them to lift a finger except for PR purposes. The current crop of savages, ISIS, was and is funded through private sources, so it would certainly seem to be fair play to dispose of them through private enterprise. There are those who have the skill sets to physically eradicate the savages, and then there are those with the means to raise the funds and implement them towards those ends.
Would such a course of action rain on someone’s parade and ruin their ‘well thought out’ plans to re-establish the Caliphate? You betcha. Can such a plan be devised and implemented by an entrepreneurial U.S. Group? You betcha. Would there be push back as soon as the planning begins? Most likely.
Other than that, I have zero hope that our congress critters will have a come to Jesus moment and remember that America at one time was the leader of the free world and would not tolerate such atrocities.
I would say one of the first things is for reality to come to fore. This task is going to need boots on the ground, lots of them. In the hundreds of thousands of pairs of boots on the ground. I say to the Left, no amount of understanding is going to persuade anyone of your good intentions. ISIS means business, and they are telegraphing that through their videos. They have the will to do anything to accomplish their goals. To the Right I say, forget your Special Forces Hollywood fantasies, this task can only be accomplished with armoured divisions, infantry divisions, airborne divisions, etc. You get the drift. The task is going to cost lives, maybe in thousands. We all have to ask ourselves, are we willing to bear the cost to win. I am, but is the guy next to me is, I’m not so sure. ISIS can be destroyed in a massive military operation that is well planned (unlike 2003) and given the means and direction to get on with the job (unlike today).