ISIS could be sowing the seeds of its own destruction

Excesses ultimately sow the seeds of their own destruction.

Paul Harvey said that, or something very similar. I wish I could remember the exact verbage, but you get the idea.

Which brings us to the present day, to another case of such 'ultimate excesses'. The excesses of brutality, the excesses of a religion hijacked, a portion of which demands, 'You have no freedom, you must live your life and worship in our way and in only our way, or you will die by the sword, and we will take your property and steal and abuse your women and daughters and corrupt your children and destroy your way of life because our version of God says we can do it!'

ISIS.

ISIS lives for leveraging terror, to be the terrorist bullies in the world, with their bombs and their bullets and their sharia law, even against members of their own faith who they consider to be 'infidels', and all for one purpose: to enforce a religious dictatorship on the world—all of us.

And in the process, they are making the rest of the world really, totally pissed off with them.

Which begs a response. And, that's starting to happen. Paris, Friday the 13^th. In Belguim, Hungary, parts of eastern and northern Europe. England. The backlash is starting. It's starting to fester here as well, with We The People who see what is happening. The natives—read that, the non-Islamo-fascists, the future victims---are getting restless, because now, they, we, are 'getting it'. It sure took long enough.

Just a pipedream here: Let's wait and see if ISIS does their 'infidel cleansing' to any Chinese citizens or interests.

Heh-heh.

But maybe, just maybe, we needn't wait that long. Take a page or two out of history. How long did The Great War (read that now, World War I), rage and destroy Europe, before We the Americans got involved? How long did it take for that war to be won after the Americans were forced into it? How close was the fight to being lost before then?

And World War II? How long were Hitler and Mussolini allowed to stage their holocaust before Pearl Harbor brought us, U.S., into the conflict? How did our involvement help turn the tide of the war? Who was the one who led the Allied forces in the battle for the western half of Europe? And from where did he come? (Hint, for those under 50: He became a President of the United States.)

Now, I understand that, for some of you, the similarities between the historical experiences I've mentioned here has a tendency to make one believe that what is staring us in the face today, is World War III, and that, as in the first Two, the result will likely come out the same as in the two World Wars previous. That's good, but if that's to happen, we have to change our strategy to one which has the aim of nothing short of victory. We the People have to start that process by electing the leadership that will. 

Beyond that, there are those among us who see signs that all this is the past that is the prologue for the greatest of prophetic possibilities--Armageddon. Well, maybe so, but let's not get ahead of ourselves....not yet. We have plenty of time to truly ascertain that. But I can't help but think that, in light of the fact that this is a war based on one group's warped religious belief system, waged against all other ways there are of worship, not to mention the manner in which this group is behaving, using the ugliest of terror against the rest of us, including the use of mass executions and beheadings and destruction of houses of worship and ancient shrines of all faiths, among other atrocities, that ISIS is truly what we all see it to be—evil.

When we're finally to the point where we can all agree that evil is what we have here, then I suggest that we have to believe in the one other something which gives us all hope: The one little rule, not mentioned within the Ten Commandments, but no less valid, which states 'excesses ultimately sow the seeds of their own destruction.'

And that hope just may be coming to pass because, except within the halls of the present-day White House, folks everywhere, not just here, are beginning to stop being scared, and starting to be pissed off enough to want to do what has to be done. 

End this.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese fleet which attacked Pearl Harbor, is said to have said in its aftermath, something to the effect, “I fear that we have done more than to destroy a military base. We have in fact awakened a sleeping tiger which will fight us with a terrible resolve, to our destruction.” As prescient as Yamamoto was, we find ourselves having to deal with such a situation again. That is why We The People must elect leadership at the Federal level in 2016 which will galvanize that resolve into action, with the aim of defeating and destroying this hate-filled ideology which is ISIS, no matter where it exists---everywhere. And, as Paul would put it, if it's not the way to bet, it's sure the way to pray.

It can't come soon enough.

For Art of Conservatism, I'm Art Reis