Penelope
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Not Islam.The problem with your screed here is that you see Islam as a Monolithic Hive Mind, not hundreds of sects, nationalities and cultures...
Radicalized, Militant Islam.
Even within that subdomain, there are, indeed, great differences and a fairly substantial disconnect.
But they are quickly learning and improving and beginning a better coordination and collaboration, aren't they?
And, of course, the prospect for a Caliphate State raises the spectre of a Radical Islam Central Headquarters, centered on what we presently call Iraq.
We should not allow a present (and quickly evaporating) diversity to blind our eyes to future mortal danger from a domain-wide collective.
ISIS holds the quite realistic potential to move beyond the realm of 'terror group' and to graduate to that of Nation-State with an increasingly formidable military capability....are there some factions that are truly dangerous? Yup. AL Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, those are groups we ought to be worried about...
In a very real sense, we consciously decided to make it our business, long, long ago....But frankly, the fight between the Zionists and Palestinians isn't our business, and there isn't a "Good guy" to back here.
We (the United States) began to 'take sides' with the Jews after we came to understand the scope and horror that they had been subjected to in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
Over the course of 20-30 years after WWII, we came to 'adopt' them, in a manner of speaking, and have decided to befriend them, and to stand by them, and to sustain them.
That is our choice - a conscious one - and we should not make the mistake of allowing a resurgent and increasingly radicalized and militant and increasingly collaborative element of Islam to dictate to us whom we may befriend and ally with, and whom we may not.
That leads down the same path formerly traveled by Neville Chamberlain and other well-meaning but wrong-headed and overly-pliant folk.
Americans, in their collective wisdom, choose to support Israel, both generally, and in the case of this most recent Gaza war, by very wide and considerable margins.
I stand alongside the majority of my countrymen, on this one.
We (the United States) began to 'take sides' with the Jews after we came to understand the scope and horror that they had been subjected to in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s
NO that is not the reason, the reason is they started flocking to the US in the late 1800's and by WWII were pretty much running everything.