I’ve sampled the Twitterverse and the Blogosphere today, and the fear and loathing is so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw. It makes me feel alternately sick, and pissed off. Right now I’m pissed off.
Maddeningly, many of those haranguing others about closing the borders to Syrian refugees are congratulating each other how about brave they all are. Well I’m calling them out. They are nothing more than cowards.
What does a coward do, two days after the horrific terror attacks on the people of Paris?
The Syrian civil war has metastasized into a war between Daesh, or ISIS, and the people of Syria and Iraq. The ISIS extremists are among the most violently depraved the world has ever seen. I’m not going to link the most graphic images to illustrate my point. Anyone who wants to do so may simply search “ISIS victims.” The sheer brutality of the carnage will turn your stomach. These are people who behead not just men, but women and children. These are people who not only ritualistically slaughter captured innocents by beheading them, but who also kill in other creatively cruel and gruesome ways, such as by flaying the skin off of their victims. And there are lots and lots of victims.
Some poor souls who didn’t get away.
The war has generated hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of refugees. They are fleeing for their lives from this unimaginable cruelty, this genocide perpetrated against minorities such as the Yazidi, this unspeakable evil. Several countries, most notably Germany, have opened their borders to these fleeing unfortunates. The US promised to take 10,000, which in all honesty is a drop in a bucket.
Why are Daesh so flamboyantly cruel? Because they want to goad the world into coming there to fight them. They believe such a battle will signal the end times. But the world hasn’t cooperated. The West is content to bomb them from time to time, conduct a few special ops raids, hit their leadership with drone strikes, and supply local fighters who are willing to resist them. Despite the modest level of support of ISIS opponents by the West and Russia, ISIS is losing. They’re losing cities and towns they took last year. Their territory has shrunk by 25%.
So ISIS—the same people who slaughter innocents by the truckload in Syria and Iraq, people who behead even little girls—lashes out with horrific and deadly attacks in Paris, an iconic and much-beloved city. And how do the governors of 24 states and countless other profiles in courage who populate this great freedom-loving country of ours, react? By adamantly refusing to allow the people fleeing from those same terrorists into our country out of fear that hidden among the 10,000 victims there may be a few terrorists.
Cowards.
These are people who are the first to say that the United States military is fighting for freedom. Yes, as long as it’s in some far-off place, as long as it’s somebody else’s kid, as long as we can stand up during a football game and admire the fighter jets zooming overhead during a halftime Tribute to the Troops, as long as somebody can make a buck selling weapons, it’s all good. Because freedom.
But let in to our beautiful country some of those very same people that Our Troops were fighting to save? Not on your life! What if one of them turns out to be a terrorist?
Can you spot the terrorist?
Cowards.
These are people who stood by while the school bully beat up the fat kid, the effeminate kid, the kid with learning disabilities. These are people who laughed at the victim. Some of them helped.
Cowards, every one of them. Only now they aren’t just sucking up to the school bully. They are sucking up to terrorists. They are sucking up to ISIS, surely the most depraved bunch of murderers to have darkened the 21st Century. These cowards won’t help the bully’s victims get away from the brutality because they’re afraid. They’re afraid the bully might turn on them. ISIS has those poor refugees backing away in terror, and these people are sneaking up behind on hands and knees, smirking as they make themselves into an obstacle for the bully to push the victim over backwards.
Well, that’s what they’re doing in their minds...but this bully doesn’t just beat up his victims. This bully they are sucking up to, this bully beheads children.
But by all means—turn away any children who come to us seeking refuge! They could be terrorists!
Cowards.
Terrorists, or Terrible Twos? Many fear-stricken Americans can't tell the difference.
As if terrorists need to pose among refugees to gain entrance to our country. Hell, all but one of the ones who carried out the Paris attacks were French citizens. They didn’t need to come into France to murder people, they were already there.
Stupid cowards.
