This is horrifying beyond belief. And, no, what ISIS is doing is not comparable

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224. I agree that they are operating outside international law especially in the kidnapping of young

children.

i did not mean to suggest that what they are doing is civilized or that it can be ended only through the means that we are now using.

But we have fought wars against rapists before. ISIS' problem is that as soon as it establishes itself in a territory, it has to protect that territory. Sooner or later it has to do that. And when that happens it will be, and as that happens, it is vulnerable to invasion and traditional warfare.

But rape as a means of demonstrating the subjugation of a conquered people is not new. It causes the subjugated people to hate their conquerors.

It is a war crime whether the aggressors guilt of it fight in conventional ways or not.

I have no doubt that our military is thinking of ways to defeat the unconventional methods of ISIS and that our military will succeed.