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Those Who Have Been Forgotten

Dec 2, 2015 3:27 am By Michael Devolin

Putin

“War hath no fury like a non-combatant.” –E.C. Montague

Vladimir Putin, in his defence of Russia’s bombing missions against Islamic elements residing in the mountains of northern Latakia, Syria remarked, “These are people who must be directly qualified as international terrorists.” In that one statement alone Mr. Putin has shamed and exposed the inefficacious promises and boasts of Western and UN strategists who have been vacillating between doing nothing and next to nothing against ISIS, the terrorist entity that, although lacking any obvious form of human decency, is commonly condemned by both Muslim and non-Muslim alike for its emphatic willingness to commit all manner of cruelty against those it considers “enemies of Islam.”

What irks me these days are those who spend more time condemning the Muslim world (an umma suffering more loss of life every day from terrorist violence than any other religious group) for its alleged lack of agitation against Islamist terrorism, or excoriating Vladimir Putin for his military “intrusion” into Syria and what may be his less than honourable motives for doing so, than they do exposing Western and Middle Eastern governments for their insensate and languorous inaction while ISIS madmen murder, rape, and torture both Christians and Muslims—primarily defenseless civilians—with complete impunity.

“The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten,” goes the Jewish proverb. And although I consider the ISIS problem an Islamic problem (more precisely, a manifestation of Islam proper), I foresee that for Western governments to forego a more concentrated military effort against ISIS will only induce our so-called Middle Eastern allies to do even less than they do now to deter other Islamic jihad groups within their respective borders from attacking civilian targets in Europe and North America. Those civilians remaining in the war zones of Syria—those who haven’t migrated to Europe to claim a much sought-after refugee status—are, without the benefit of a coordinated, full-fledged military intervention against ISIS, “truly dead” because this world has, at this point, forgotten them. I am not so much against helping “Syrian refugees” as I am impatient for Western governments to pick up the pace in putting down the ISIS plague (which caused the refugee problem in the first place) where it now exists and consolidates. Decerebrate the closed universe of ISIS in the Middle East and you negate the jihadist menace that now obtrudes into the Western world.

Emma Sky, director of the Yale World Fellows, sounds off about ISIS in the New York Times: “We have to deal with the reality of the situation we face today. We cannot simply ignore it and hope it goes away. It won’t. Peace will not come through passivity. And the longer the civil wars in the region rage, the worse it gets, the more countries are destabilized, and the narrower the policy options are….It is critical that ISIS is defeated ideologically as well as militarily.” I agree with her on this point. When the New York Times publishes an article advocating military action against terrorist entities in the Middle East—so very contrary to the many articles it has published by journalists citing Israel’s “disproportionate” response to Palestinian terrorism—you just know that, without a doubt, the Leftists of this world are perhaps beginning to take notice of the escalating problem of Islamic jihad.

BBC News reported on 30 October, 2015, that “…world powers meeting in Vienna agreed to a nine-point plan they hope will pave the way for a ceasefire in Syria – but they remain divided on what happens to President Assad.” The lack of a denouement regarding the matter of “what happens to President Assad” is an example of how Western powers promising hope to the region set upon by ISIS are stymied militarily by what amounts to foolish political imbroglios. John Lucas points out in his book The Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics, and Culture that E.C. Montague (quoted above), was “…probably the first to offer a critical account of the conduct of war: the bland pieties of the church, of the lying distortions of the press, of the shortcomings of the military top brass.” Although I commend his condemnation of the press of his day because of their “lying distortions,” I cannot fathom why Montague disapproved of “kicking a man when he’s down” and why he abhorred those British “non-combatant generals” who rejoiced to see the German soldier enduring the humiliation of defeat. Such unctuous concerns are indicative of how “nine point plan” impasses are generated—impasses that have produced similar refugee problems elsewhere in the world.

I side with the fury of the non-combatant generals: I will rejoice when ISIS is ultimately defeated, and I will especially rejoice to see their ilk publicly humiliated and brought to justice by the ordinary Muslims and Christians whom they have for so long crushed and destroyed by the tens of thousands. Because we are not facing a German Army on the Somme; we are not staring down Soviet Russia in a Cold War: we are fighting Islamic terrorists, and Islamic terrorist have no regard for the living, and even less for “those who have been forgotten.”

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  1. ich says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 8:02 am

    As a child moving to Canada I always viewed USA as a country
    of cowboys and marines. Brave men and women.

    Putin embodies that.
    Now America is being turned upside down by wimpy selfie monsters.

    I can understand now how Rome fell.

    • Kepha says

      Dec 2, 2015 at 6:42 pm

      Funny, ich, as a kid growing up in the States, I always saw Canada as a country of Mounties and lumberjacks. Guess we’ve got some of the same malaises on both sides of the Great Lakes. Dang! No wonder, when I last taught in Taiwan, some kids looked at me in great disappointment when, in answer to the question, “How can we tell Americans and Canadians apart?” I replied that you look at their passports!

    • NYgal says

      Dec 2, 2015 at 11:52 pm

      Putin is a thug with his own definition of terrorism. According to Putin Hamas and Hezbollah are not terrorist organization, and Iran is not a dangerous extremist Muslim state, only those opposing Asad and Iran are terrorists. The tragedy is that the weak American President, Obama, ceaded the ground to terrorists and thugs like Putin and Iranian mullahs and that American public is totally OK with that. We will all pay a steep price for this folly.

  2. Angemon says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 10:17 am

    you just know that, without a doubt, the Leftists of this world are perhaps beginning to take notice of the escalating problem of Islamic jihad.

    They’re noticing as far as they can without actually linking it with islam – “they’re brutal terrorists but they’ve been forced to be because of Western actions”. They want to fight lung cancer while smoking cigarettes and pretending the prevalence of lung cancer among smokers is all because of a bad batch, and if they can take out that bad batch then everyone will be able to smoke cigarettes while not getting lung cancer.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 11:17 am

    Obama regime sending in 50 or so to assist in (Northern Syria).
    Naturally, NPR-BBC is spinning a soft-sell on this.

    Is Obama protecting the flow of cheap ISIS oil?

    • harbidoll says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 7:03 am

      cheap oil is why Putin is involved. It is ruining hes countrys oil export & the ruble is falling. Europe was contracted to buy Russian oil but can get it cheap trom ISIS

  4. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    “… Western and Middle Eastern governments … insensate and languorous inaction while ISIS madmen murder, rape, and torture both Christians and Muslims—primarily defenseless civilians—with complete impunity…”

    Well said Michael – it is a total disgrace; how can they look themselves in the mirror each day?

  5. RC says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 3:24 am

    Devolin–is not credible–he claims to support Israel and openly hates Biblical Christians–which is an oxymoron. He’s got a bad case of sycophantic Judiolotry. No real love or support for Israel or Jewry.

  6. Manuel Franco says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 3:26 am

    Silly Putin; just convert to islam! “Problem” solved… Now you can justify any vile behavior as part of your “religion”, and as an internal sectarian dispute between them…

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