Welcome to my own personal ISIS/ISIL rant, but only on a very limited topic...This is something that has been nibbling around the edges of my fevered brain for a while, but I just recently managed to get my grubby little mitts wrapped around it...Follow me down below the twisted orange ISIL train of thought for more...
I'm an old fart...I don't mean nursing home old, but old enough to be within sight of the finish line of my working years...Just a couple of years too young for Woodstock, but plenty old enough to remember watching that Vietnamese captain blow that spys head in the middle of the street, and the Buddhist monks sitting placidly down and turning themselves into charcoal...Now we have another bunch of middle east soccer layabouts making trouble, only this group a whole lot better trained and motivated since we gave them pretty much the entire Iraqi army for their draft pool...Then, the shocking news that the that the hooded, chickenshit mouth breather busy executing two American journalists is almost certainly a Brit, and one of more that 300 suspected or confirmed to have made the trip over, along with Dutch, French and Germans who decided to join the struggle...Then the pathetic image of a 9 y.o. Aussie boy holding up the severed head of a Syrian soldier by the hair...His obviously inbred father brought him over with him for the fight...Then the REAL capper, especially for the Faux News Channel hyperbolic chamber, reports that there could be as many as 100 Americans who have gone over to join ISIS, with 2 being confirmed killed on the same day in the same battle...Oh, my GOD!!! What a weak and powerless little man Obama must be, that American citizens will leave their OWN country to fight FOR terrorists who wish us ill!!! Right, right???
To quote my favorite political pixie Rachel Maddow, "Bull Puckey"...There is nothing new about this, for ANY of these people, from ANY of these countries, and has less to do with Barack Obama, or David Cameron, or Angela Merkel than what after shave Glenn Beck is torturing his guests with today...And for 99% of them, religion and duty don't have a damn thing to do with it...These are the same social retards that back in the 70's and 80's were sitting around, getting addicted to "Soldier of Fortune" magazine, and hitching their way down to Angola, and the Congo, and Central America to be "mercenaries"...I'm sure they got paid, but THEY would have paid instead...This was their "Dark Paradise", the chance to actually indulge in all of their deepest, darkest desires, the kind of stuff that would have gotten them death row in their own countries, and with absolutely NO risk of retribution or punishment...It isn't religious, and it isn't political, it's a sick and twisted mind taking advantage of a sad situation to revel in their nihilistic fantasies...The only reason nobody screamed or yelled about them going down there was the reason that the people they went to fight with were not considered to be an "imminent threat" to the US or its citizens...Let's be honest, you can't take a dump these days without the NSA or CIA analyzing it to see if you had anything "unpatriotic" for dinner last night, like Shawarma...I seriously doubt they came up with a head count like "Up to 100" out of whole cloth...They have people in mind that they think have gone over there...Travel is NOT a right of citizenship, it's a privilege...If you know who they are, then suspend their passport privileges until they can account for where they've been done...But sadly, as long as there is such a thing as war and atrocity, there will be moths that will be irresistably drawn to that flame...