Again another emotional outcry for blood. And again, I will ask you...What will it accomplish? Absolutely nothing. Your enemy isn't a political ideology like the Germans largely confined to a national border, it's a religio-political one and it exists in practically every country in the world. The harder to try to back it into a corner, the more desperate and unreasonable it will become. Every Time a neck is "stretched on the gallows" another terrorist is inspired, ISIL is evidence to that fact.
I don't buy any of that. But it makes a convenient excuse for doing nothing--"Don't make them mad! Just think what they might do!" What would you do, invite the bastards to counseling sessions and ask them what owie in their inner child makes them determined to kill us all?
Your remark about executions is ridiculous, because we have not carried out even one. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the yellow son of a bitch who was the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, in which almost 3,000 civilians were intentionally targeted and murdered, is still drawing breath. In fact he has never even been tried, more than thirteen years after the fact.
I have no love for radical Islam (or any Islam or religion for that matter), but I know you can't defeat them with acts of violence as the core of your policy on how to deal with them.
I ask you again--what would you do with people who believe it's their religious duty to kill or enslave unbelievers--which includes almost all Americans--except kill them first? There is no reasoning with them, and the notion that the U.S. has somehow created them by using force is nothing but anti-American propaganda whose purpose is to get us to stop using it. I'm sure the jihadists are grateful to the people who are spreading that propaganda.
I know something about the historical roots of Islamic jihad, and they date from at least the early 1900's--long before the United States was involved in Muslim world in any way. Jihadism is rooted in the most orthodox documents in Islam. Jihadists are only following extreme, fundamentalist interpretations of the Koran, the hadith, and shari'ah. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that if the vast majority of the people in the world who identify themselves as Muslims are perfectly peaceful, it is only because they are not very observant believers.
They have already proved they are willing to up their game to levels we won't (public burning anyone?) and they have proven that billions of bullets and millions of bombs will not stop them from running into crowded places and blowing up anything and everyone they can.
That has not been proven at all. The U.S. has not attacked jihadists with either "billions of bullets" or "millions of bombs." In fact this country has yet to apply more than a very small fraction of its military power against them.
So please, park the machismo and blood lust and tell us all how you would solve the problem long term?
I have already said how I would solve the problem. Use whatever military force is needed to defeat jihadist movements anywhere they can be found, and make the whipping so severe that no Muslim on earth will ever again want anything to do with violence against the United States. Even the most fanatic people will not fight to the very end. No jihadist could be more fanatic than the Japanese troops defending Iwo Jima--and yet a few months later, many of them surrendered at Okinawa. And where at first people volunteered to be kamikaze pilots, as the beating got even heavier, they had to start dragooning people into doing it, getting them drunk, etc.
Force
does work, and always has, and sometimes there is just no alternative. If a large animal is coming at you and you have a gun that will kill it, you don't stand there and try to reason with it--you take aim and fire.
