The Patriot Post® · It's Well Past Time We Waged War

Arnold Ahlert: “[W]hen is the West going to figure out that every day ISIS remains a murderously viable, propaganda-spewing entity is another day Western nations must address an increasing number of domestic Islamist wannabes? Wannabes looking to ‘one-up’ the atrocities already perpetrated in Canada, Australia, France and the United States. The ‘degrade and destroy’ catchphrase mindlessly reiterated by Obama, along with the promise made by the likes of White House spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan to ‘stand in solidarity’ with the latest victims of Islamist barbarity, ring exceedingly hollow. Angelo M. Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University and former professional staff member of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, speaks to a reality Western leaders do not want to hear. ‘Killing the IS (ISIS) requires neither more nor less than waging war – not as the former administration waged its "war on terror,” nor by the current administration’s pinpricks, nor according to the too-clever-by-half stratagems taught in today’s politically correct military war colleges, but rather by war in the dictionary meaning of the word,’ he writes. ‘To make war is to kill the spirit as well as the body of the enemy, so terribly as to make sure that it will not rise again, and that nobody will want to imitate it.’ Right now Obama and countless other world leaders are far too willing to tolerate ISIS, one horrific video after another, along with its imitators, one ‘lone wolf’ atrocity after another. Until that equation changes we are virtually assured that Islamist terror will thrive.“