Padre Mellyrn wrote:
The examples these articles pull out as other nasty bad guys do not have that same urge to destroy others who do not follow the same ideology.
And that of course would the 'those evil Muslims', the elephant in the room being that the Christians on this side of the pond have the same types, the Evangelicals who also believe the end times are coming. And of course the Fox News Media, and several folks in Congress believe, and are pushing the war in the middle east in hopes of starting the "end of times wars". 


Please don't put words in my mouth Padre, I never said anything about evil Muslims, and as I recall I never claimed that all Muslims were the root of all evil here.
I feel that way about nearly every form of religion, including our home grown Christians running for office, seeking to establish god's law in America, they scare me as much as anyone else I've ever encountered for all the reasons you state.

And yet, we are all supposed to be scared to death of group of people, who have less territorry than the Greater Los Angeles area, and about as many people. We might as well be terrified that Nigaragu is going to come and invade us. I can't help but feel we are acting like the 'mythical elephant being terrified of a mouse'.
They're holding about half of Syrian territory currently, as well as an area in Iraq stretching as far south as Ramadi , that's considerably more than the Los Angeles area, complete with one of the largest oil reserves on earth, which brings them between one million and three million U.S. dollars per day, they're also collecting taxes, conducting extortion of people and business, as well as receiving donations from wealthy sympathizers.
They're hardly a mouse, they're well organized, effective and efficient, well led, well funded and very well armed. 
Now I agree that it's rather unlikely that we'll be looking at an attack of any real magnitude on the U.S. anytime soon, however I must reiterate my original question; just how long before, left unchecked, will it be before the Islamic State does gather the resources it needs to conduct meaningful operations overseas?

If you want a group of people to sweat, that is the ones I would be worried about, the Morons in congress who have acutal control over of the Nucs, who are being egged on by the Nut cases on Fox. But ISIS, somehow I just can't find in my heart to sweat them. Not they they don't need to be taken care of, but we in america have to stop chasing down every fly we see, while ignoring the packs of wolves just waiting for us to slip.
Oh believe me, I'm just as frightened, no, more frightened, of our own Christan fundamentalist politicians seeking to turn the U.S. into a Christian version of the very thing they scream about in the middle east.
I used to dismiss the idea that there were those in office that were actively seeking to bring about Armageddon in order to have Jesus return, but lately I'm rethinking that particular stance, some of these people are truly insane.  



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