And The World Watches

European invaders promoted genocide on Native American people in the first wave of conquest. “Americans” tried to finish off the genocide on indigenous people from the beginnings of the country. Germany killed more than 8 million civilians, mostly Jews. Russia killed more than 20 million people, many Jews, mostly ethnic Russians. Cambodians killed millions of Cambodians in the “killing fields” of Cambodia. Rwandans killed millions of Rwandans. Bosnian Serbs killed hundreds of thousands of ethnic Croatians. Sudanese militants ethnically cleansed millions of Sudanese civilians. Nigerians  ethnically cleanse Nigerians. The Syrian government is killing Syrian civilians by the thousands.

And now, ISIS is killing thousands of civilians in a move to ethnically cleanse their “Caliphate”.

Any common thread here?  You bet. Genocide.

Any other? Oh Yes!!!!. The world WATCHED AND DID NOTHING. And the world is watching the Middle East now and doing nothing. The murdering Islamic State “soldiers” are killing anyone they want to: Every ethnic or religious group different from them, and any Muslim who is viewed as “moderate” by the uneducated and ignorant “soldiers”.

AND THE WORLD DOES NOTHING.

What should the world do? Get together and stand up for the battered groups and fight against the aggressors. It was never truer than now, that if you don’t prevent some hostile aggressor from taking your neighbor, you will be next on the list, and there will not be a neighbor to help you.

I can’t begin to explain how deeply divided I am over all this. We lost over 4000 lives in Iraq, and left a failed state. Now, the results of that are easily seen: Chaos in the Middle East. A band of Islamic extremists taking over vast parts of 2 countries and looking for more. Next may be Iran or Jordan. Then what? Somewhere a fight must start, and the Nations of the World must win. All the nations. The big powers like Russia, China, the European Union, Great Britain, the USA, Brazil and others.

Like an infestation of rats in an apartment house, everybody has to cooperate to exterminate the problem, and not leave someplace as a safe haven.

And yes, the soldiers of freedom will once again die and families will grieve. The alternative is so much worse it doesn’t bear considering.

These people will not stop until they get the World. Unless they are stopped once and for all times. How? What do you always do with rats? And the world should get rid of the Rats who are paying the bill for the Islamic State to  prosecute a war of terror. I wonder who those Rats are?

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