Professor Angelo Codevilla has written a deeply sensible
column for
The Washington Times, on the subject of what we should, and more importantly should not, do about ISIS. As he points out, both the Democrats and the establishment Republicans have it wrong, albeit in different ways.
Doing away with ISIS requires honesty about what America’s business is and is not, what is within our capacity and right to do and what is not. In short, while we have neither the capacity nor the right to determine who rules whom or how anywhere but at home, we have the power and the duty to destroy any individual, band or movement that means to kill us.
This man could get my vote for Secretary of State. Or maybe Secretary of Defense, see his military model.
Never again must Americans be sacrificed in house-to-house fighting. Artillery and bombs from B-52s should do the bulk of the killing. The expeditionary force would finish off survivors. No prisoners. The Geneva Convention does not apply to pirates or cutthroats.
U.S. forces should come home quicker than they left, having minded our business by showing what happens to those who harm America.
In other words, no more nation-building. Nation-building is their problem, not ours. Just because we broke it, doesn't mean we own it. See Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's wars against the Barbary pirates for historical precedents.
