For the better part of the last two years, the evolution of our foreign policy regarding the Islamic State has barely moved. Despite calls from everyone from foreign leaders to US military commanders to a pair of US Defense Secretaries, the consensus has been that the Islamic State cannot be defeated with our current policy of contain and (eventually) drive back.
Russia has stepped up and they’re paying consequences for being the first full force to hit the dance floor. It’s not just the terrorist bombing of a Russian jet that somehow still isn’t confirmed as such despite strong physical evidence and immediate credible claims from the Islamic State that they did it. The economic toll is registering in Russia at a rate that is likely surprising to the Russian government. They are incapable of doing this on their own or with the mild semi-assistance of US airstrikes.
The difference between our policy and the enemy’s policy is that our government views the Islamic State as a geopolitical issue. We aren’t looking at this through the proper lens that this is a fight between good and evil. They don’t have that problem. Their perspective is that they are the righteous warriors for the good of their god and that the United States, secular Middle East Sunni governments, all Shiites, Israel, Europe, Russia, and pretty much everyone else are all on the side of evil.
Perspectives change the way you handle situations. Let’s look at it from a law enforcement angle. It’s similar in that the responses to different degrees of crimes can vary just as the threat from geopolitical situations will vary. If law enforcement believes that a particular area is a hotbed for drug dealers, they might take the same basic approach the President Obama has taken with the Islamic State. First, they would try to contain the situation and keep the drug dealers relegated to a particular area. Then, they would systematically gather intelligence, secure search warrants, and make arrests when appropriate. They might even allow some drug deals to happen while learning more about the infrastructure so they could find the source of the drugs.
On the other hand, if law enforcement receives credible information that there’s a child molester kidnapping children and keeping them in a house, they raid the house. They don’t allow it to continue in hopes of containing the rapist to just those children he already has captured. They go in and they take him out immediately. They do this because they understand they are fighting a good fight against a truly evil act.
The Islamic State has perpetrated the worst types of crime. They are killing innocent people. They are taking women and children into forced sexual slavery. They are destroying the lives of millions of people. Now, they’re spreading their tentacles around the world in and effort to bring about the eradication of everything and everyone that stands in their way of complete domination over the rest of humanity.
They are evil. Their goals are evil. They should never have been allowed to exist this long. They cannot be allowed to exist any further. We have to stop treating them like something that needs to be contained. They must be completely eliminated. Anything short of that is not only futile but actually supports their cause.
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