ISIS and Other Terrorists

Disclosure: I am just an average American citizen who is frustrated with seeing acts of terror going on in the world, and helpless to do anything about it. Most recently, a terror organization, ISIS, beheaded another American photojournalist. The victim was not the first, and won't be the last. I am NOT an expert, and only have 2 years military and more than a dozen years in law enforcement. So take what I say with a grain of salt of you wish.

First off, I think we need to understand that cold blooded murder is the ultimate in power over another human being. What we see in the videos of the beheadings, is not just the shock value in such a death. What we also see, is the terrorists exhibiting the ultimate "power", and the idea that they could have such unlimited power over any of us. That is more of the terror message than the actual beheading.

I wonder, if such "power" isn't what indices some to join them? There are reports of maybe hundreds of British youths, and maybe a hundred or more from America, to include a couple young girls, who have joined ISIS. Why? Is the idea of unbridled POWER over others, seductive? I am inclined to think it could be. Such POWER over another human being - the ultimate power - with seemingly NO consequences. I think ISIS is using the same guy, or at least the same looking figure, to do the beheadings so it appears they are untouchable.

Do we see the deaths of our enemies? Only on Youtube and other Internet sites, will we see the death blows delivered to such scumbags. Why? Is it that our sensibilities in the US can't handle it? Could it be that we think we are so much better, that we won't stoop to that level? Well, I think we need to see dead terrorists every day we drop them to the ground. I think American citizens, as well as other people around the world, must SEE that there IS consequences to being a terrorist, and killing and beheading people to just make a point.

We ALL hate to see our nation's best, our soldiers, killed in battle. They are all tragic losses. But they ARE warriors, and they knew signing up that they could be facing that threat. I expect that while we morn such losses, it doesn't strike our sensibilities like seeing a journalist beheaded, or children murdered because they are Christians, or women beaten to death because they "allowed" themselves to be raped. We cringe at such visions. And that is what the terrorists want.

What they DON'T want, is for a backlash on them that would cause prospects to see that THEY can die a nasty death too. Not by beheading them. Not by being savages. But killing them at every turn, and SEEING the dead bodies (which we need to make hundreds of every day) on Youtubes and national news coverage every day. Would it be such a lure, if they FACED the real prospect DEATH by guns and bombs every day? Especially when such dead bodies are shown every day? I can only speculate, but I'd say it would give pause for those thinking it could be exciting to have such UNLIMITED power of death over defenseless people.

WAR IS HELL. But trying to smooth it over so it doesn't appear so ugly, is a MASSIVE mistake. WAR IS HELL, and should be. For WAR to be shown as less than HELL, actually makes the making of WAR less of a concern, and no deterrent. WAR, taken and waged for what it is, may actually reduce the wars anyone gets involved in. If people actually saw WAR, up close and personal, fewer people, on either side, would want it? Adversely, if WAR is seen as some civilized sterile endeavor, then it doesn't seem to be near as big a deal. WAR MUST BE HELL. HELL on our enemies who cause us to engage in it. HELL on us, so we enter into it with the goal to win, and win QUICKLY!

Lets stop the sensitized view of WAR, and lets show the dead bodies of our enemies as examples of the price that will be paid to conduct in one. Lets turn the power of life and death against our enemies, and SHOW the world that there IS a cost to such acts.

Final word - For Obama and Holder to send the FBI to foreign lands to "investigate" acts of WAR on our people, only reinforces some belief that such barbaric acts as criminal events, and not acts of war upon innocent people. And that, works against us, and endangers us even more. Such acts are NOT crimes. They are brutal acts of savagery in war upon us.

WAR IS HELL. And we need to bring HELL upon our enemies, and let the world see it.