What to Do About ISIS

[reorg]

by DAVID SWANSON

(...) the only conceivable something is to pick some party and bomb it.

But why is that the only conceivable thing to be done? I can think of some others:

1. Apologize for brutalizing the leader of ISIS in Abu Ghraib and to every other prisoner victimized under U.S. occupation.

2. Apologize for destroying the nation of Iraq and to every family there.

3. Begin making restitution by delivering aid (not “military aid” but actual aid, food, medicine) to the entire nation of Iraq.

4. Apologize for role in war in Syria.

5. Begin making restitution by delivering actual aid to Syria.

6. Announce a commitment not to provide weapons to Iraq or Syria or Israel or Jordan or Egypt or Bahrain or any other nation anywhere on earth and to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from foreign territories and seas, including Afghanistan. (The U.S. Coast Guard in the Persian Gulf has clearly forgotten where the coast of the U.S. is!)

7. Announce a commitment to invest heavily in solar, wind, and other green energy and to provide the same to democratic representative governments.

8. Begin providing Iran with free wind and solar technologies — at much lower cost of course than what it is costing the U.S. and Israel to threaten Iran over a nonexistent nuclear weapons program.

9. End economic sanctions.

10. Send diplomats to Baghdad and Damascus to negotiate aid and to encourage serious reforms.

11. Send journalists, aid workers, peaceworkers, human shields, and negotiators into crisis zones, understanding that this means risking lives, but fewer lives than further militarization risks.

12. Empower people with agricultural assistance, education, cameras, and internet access.

13. Launch a communications campaign in the United States to replace military recruitment campaigns, focused on building sympathy and desire to serve as critical aid workers, persuading doctors and engineers to volunteer their time to travel to and visit these areas of crisis.

14. Work through the United Nations on all of this.

15. Sign the United States on to the International Criminal Court and voluntarily propose the prosecution of top U.S. officials of this and the preceding regimes for their crimes.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/29/what-to-do-about-isis/

[KansDem]

1. 15.

Send the Fab Four--

[Android3.14]

2. Much of this is irrelevant or irresponsible

7, 1, 1, 15 won't have any impact on IS, but they seem like positive moves overall. The rest seems useless or worse.

[Igel]

3. But it matches what's really important.

None of it is really about what's happening. It's all about us. Or US. The center of the universe, and the expiatory sacrifice to absolve all of mankind's sins. Not that we have to take them upon ourselves--we are the cause of all mankind's sins.

By comparison, Jesus was an apprentice savior.

[reorg]

4. when the question is "what can WE do"

then, naturally, it's about us, who else?

[BobbyBoring]

5. None of that addresses their goal.

They want a world wide caliphate PERIOD. As nice as that all sounds, the only way to deal with them is kill every last one of them.
That's going to be a tough job.

[JayhawkSD]

6. They got #9 and #15 right, the others need some work.

1. Make no meaningless apologies. Words are cheap.

2. Make no meaningless apologies. Words are cheap.

3. Stay the hell out of Iraq. They don’t want us.

4. Make no meaningless apologies. Words are cheap.

5. Stay the hell out of Syria. They don’t want us.

6. Announce a commitment not to provide weapons to Iraq or Syria or Israel or Jordan or Egypt or Bahrain or any other nation anywhere on earth and to immediately withdraw all U.S. troops from foreign territories and seas, including Afghanistan. (The U.S. Coast Guard in the Persian Gulf has clearly forgotten where the coast of the U.S. is!)

7. Announce a commitment to invest heavily in solar, wind, and other green energy at home and stay the hell out of other nations’ business.

8. Stay the hell out of Iraq. They don’t want us.

9. End economic sanctions.

10. Do nend diplomats anywhere to negotiate anything.

11. Do not send journalists, aid workers, peaceworkers, human shields, and negotiators anywhere that they are not wanted, which means anywhere outside their own newsrooms..

12. Leave people outside the the United States the hell alone.

13. "Launch a communications campaign in the United States to replace military recruitment campaigns, focused on building sympathy and desire to serve as critical aid workers, persuading doctors and engineers to volunteer their time to travel to and visit these areas of crisis." Yeah, good luck with that.

14. Renounce the ownership and presidency of the United Nations and actually join the organization as an equal and functioning member which does not giver orders to other member states.

15. Sign the United States on to the International Criminal Court and voluntarily propose the prosecution of top U.S. officials of this and the preceding regimes for their crimes.

[freebrew]

7. #1 should be:

quit sending them money and weapons.

WE should all be asking how this started and how it's continuing.

I firmly believe that the US, or maybe cheney's secret government is behind this.

Following the money. Look who profits from the fear and death.

'OUR' government hasn't been ours since JFK was shot.