Fighting ISIL is not America's Job

I disagree with the President who has been trapped and drawn into a “war on ISIL” by the pressures of war mongers in Congress and other political forces that have a selfish interest in creating another war. Whether for political gain or projecting a role for domination, we will lose the war against ISIL if we take the lead for this war is not our war.

The strategy to suppress, degrade and destroy ISIS is the job of those Arab and Muslim states that surround Syria and Iraq but not ours. I am not anti-terrorism. I am not against aiding and abetting countries who spend all their own resources to fight terrorism in their own land and along the borders. 

Make this perfectly clear, I support such campaigns against our common foe, terrorists but we do not need to lead this war against these groups that seem to be coming out of the dark like roaches when the switch is turned on. 

I think the administration is wrong and I think the Congress is wrong. Criticizing Washington for failures to recognize this crisis earlier is a moot point. We need not use force in Iraq and we do not need to fly over Syria and target ISIL infrastructures. We need to let Arabs and Muslims lead the fight to combat their own and prevent another American disaster. 

In an article in Forbes I read “Washington should try a new approach.  The U.S. should leave the fight to those actually threatened by the enemy du jour, in this case ISIL.  Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, in particular, should act to degrade the Islamist group’s capabilities, shrink its territory, and defeat it, as the president hopes to do.”

We can acknowledge the Islamic State is evil but it is not the malicious force around. It has not attacked our country and it has not been determined our country is in imminent danger. Why draw us out for war and spread our resources so thin we have no capability to respond if we are indeed attacked? In my opinion what ISIL is doing in Iraq doesn’t make it particularly dangerous to America. 

U.S. intelligence officials admit that they see in the group neither the inclination nor the desire to attack the U.S.  ISIL’s murder of two American journalists was surreal, but these are not the first Americans to be killed overseas by brutes.  The deaths, though outrageous, do not constitute a threat to U.S. national security. 

In fact, the beheadings were the equivalent of stepping on the American flag.  Alas, the administration responded foolishly and should have never drawn a red line to begin with as we should have stayed out of this conflict and let these countries fend for their own and face the consequences of such failures. 

Is this about oil – in my opinion this is all about oil and the rich would rather the poor fight and die for oil and their “American interests” overseas?