Soap Box

Anyone who hasn't been able to draw the conclusion that ISIS, al-Qaeda and various and sundry other radical Muslim organizations and non-entities, are bent on destroying the free world and all it stands for has not got enough sense to pour used beer out of a boot with the directions on the heel.

What more would it take to convince them after the unprovoked world wide attacks, the beheadings, the suicide bombings, the burning of people in steel cages and the total disregard for innocent children being among their victims, that these people are monsters, vermin to be destroyed by whatever methods are necessary, whatever expenditure it takes, bombs, troops, embargos, destroying every oil well, every truck that moves their oil.

We have a president who, for some unknown reason, absolutely refuses to take the measures to rid the world of this cancer and has basically played right into their hands, allowing the rise of ISIS by his Syrian policy and his untimely pulling of our troops out of Iraq, giving them a base of operations and returning American bombers to base with their payloads intact under the guise of being afraid of hurting the environment.

All this while, ISIS destroys some of the oldest archeological treasures known to mankind and records videos of mass beheadings of Christians whose only crime is being a Christian.

But Obama's blind spot aside, this is not only America's problem; it belongs to every non-Muslim nation on the planet.

How many countries have suffered at the hands of Muslim extremism and how many European countries have significant populations of Muslims who harbor terrorists while growing their own.

Obama claims a coalition of 62 nations, which at best is a paper tiger, a coalition in name only, for the most part a gaggle of nations who are willing to have their name on the list.

Obama will never mount a meaningful offensive with the commitment, the rules of engagement and acceptance of the unfortunate collateral damage it would incur to do the job, and unfortunately the rest of the Western World is in about the same state with populations who seem to think that someone else should handle the problem.

Well that day has passed and the problem has grown to international proportions and must be handled on an international basis.

Every nation has it's own contingent of elite troops. We're familiar with America's Delta Force, Green Berets, Force Recon, SEALs, etc. and Britain has some of the greatest covert forces on the planet, the SAS as well as French COS, the German KSK, Poland's WS and so on.

I would be willing to bet that a real coalition of international special forces operating in unison, given the equipment and latitude they would require, could rid the world of this scourge in a couple of years.

This is not a war where the enemy wears uniforms to be disseminated from the rest of the population they hide among, or destroyed from the air by drones.

This is a war that requires the kind of troops who can target an enemy from a mile away, who can move in under cover of night to sabotage oil refineries and munitions depots, who can slip in among enemy troops slitting throats and kidnapping leaders, who can wreak havoc on a daily basis and let the enemy know that there is no safe place for them, that any place they stick their heads up it could get blown off.

Hunt them down and kill them in numbers or one-by-one.

There are such troops and with the right kind of leadership, it could be accomplished, a coalition of able warriors who could destroy the enemy from within and from without.

Of course that kind of leadership won't be coming from America in the next six months.

We'll just have to wait and see what the future brings.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels