Take a look at this picture of an ISIS Max Max style vehicle bomb. This tells you all you need to know about the pathetic “global threat” that the world is facing. Without an air force, the ISIS superweapon is a truck stuffed with explosives. These are big, slow-moving targets easily destroyed by a single tank shell, an anti-tank rocket, or a strafing aircraft. Against any modern military, these suicide trucks are a joke. But we must be afraid.
Without an air force, ISIS is strategically and tactically blind. This means it can’t conduct maneuver battle against modern military units. ISIS has no precision weapons. ISIS has no logistics chain to supply parts for the equipment it has captured. ISIS has no maintenance facilities to repair high-tech equipment. ISIS has no night-vision fighting capabilities. But we must be afraid.
ISIS has no ability to project military force beyond the territory it currently occupies. Its only global threat is a social media network that inspires deranged losers to commit small attacks whose cumulative damage is equal to a week of highway fatalities. But we must be afraid.
ISIS beheads people with swords, a practice identical to the method of execution in Saudi Arabia, a staunch US ally and absolutist monarchy that does not permit women to drive cars. But we must be afraid.
By any practical measure of military capability, ISIS is a ludicrous adversary. ANY one of the worlds top 10 modern militaries could dispose of ISIS in six months, probably with just a brigade of troops and two dozen aircraft. But we must be afraid.
Hillary Clinton has declared that the USA must lead the world in defeating ISIS because we are EXCEPTIONAL. Our atomic submarines, nuclear attack carriers, orbiting reconnaissance satellites, and stealth bombers make us exceptionally qualified to destroy the Mad Max trucks of ISIS. Remember, we must be afraid.
Job #1 for the Democratic Party is defending the obscene US defense budget, which is larger than that of the next 12 nations combined. This requires keeping the Cold war simmering on the back burner (Christmas in the Kremlin!) while inflating rag-tag outfits like ISIS to Macy’s balloon proportions.
The United States created ISIS. Our persistent bungling and NeoCon vandalism in Iraq motivated and equipped a ragged army of bandits, zealots, and opportunists that filled the power vacuum we created. Now we must be afraid, and both political parties in America will feed on that fear to keep money flowing to a bloated, misguided, and dysfunctional “defense” establishment that starves our nation of the funds required to treat our people decently. We should be afraid, but not of ISIS.