There is a large band of marauding killers moving through the land.
Indiscriminately they murder innocent men, women and children, because they may not believe as they believe.
They claim to act at the behest of God and in His name they plunder, pillage and murder.
How many thousands they have killed, nobody knows.
The years during which the above abominations take place is from 1095, when the Roman Catholic Pope, Urban II, proclaims the First Crusade, and, sporadically, off and on until 1291.
How many victims ? Don't ask! Nobody knows.
The Pope's men embarked on a killing spree of everybody who was not already, or quickly converted to being a Christian.
This, you say, is ancient history and why warm it up ?
Because the opening paragraph of this posting also applies to the happenings in the year 2014.
Only the roles are reversed. The killings and the reason for the killings remain the same:
This time, the marauders are fanatical Muslims of a specific variety who kill other Muslims and Christians. They call themselves: "God's Warriors". or members of the "Islamic State."
They claim that their immediate goal is a Caliphate encompassing Iraq and Syria and their ultimate goal is a World Order, wherein "their" God and His Prophet Mohamed are dominant.
The Western World must organize itself against this threat for two reasons:
1.) To stop the mass-killing of innocents, and the killing in general in the current area of strife, namely Iraq and Syria, and
2.) To prevent terrorist strikes in states of the Western World, and/or their take-over by the "Islamic State."
The majority of the members of the I.S. are Sunni extremists, who follow an al-Qaeda based fanatical, violently anti-Western ideology.
It seems that the only action, open to the West, is the military defeat of and structural eradication of the I.S.
What, so far, have the European countries done ?
Talk, talk, talk and talk some more.
"Oh yes, we support the US lead fight against the I.S."
So says England and France and Italy... so say they all, including Austria.
Has anybody committed foot soldiers and armaments ?
Of course not.!
The unspoken European refrain is: "Let the Americans do it"
And the Americans have started with air-power, supported by such military light weights as:
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The brave King of Jordan assured the American Foreign Secretary, John Kerry, that they would not send troops or hardware, but they would support this effort with "Intelligence Gathering."
( Isn't that re-assuring ? )
When referring to these local partners, the American President Barrack Obama said:
"America is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these Nations on behalf of our common security".
(It must be difficult for 5 military midgets to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the military giant of the U.S.A --- more like "shoulder to knee-cap.)
So it will likely end up that the USA will carry the load to protect the democratic Western World.
They did that during WW2 and what was their reward then ? Anti-American sentiment throughout Europe and the jealousy ridden Europe will once more indulge themselves in the most popular European parlour game: "Let's Call America for Help and then Let's all Hate Them."
I might suggest to President Barack Obama to let the Arab Nations and Europe sort this one out and let America just assure internal security for their own countries.
However, sadly, Barack never listens to
Bertstravels.
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