Tod Worner is drawing parallels the whole world needs to be drawing:
The Nazi war apparatus and its machinery of genocide began as a small, fledgling movement which picked up followers, financing, weapons and territory. For a time, Hitler’s opponents dismissed and underestimated him. Soon, however, they were bargaining with and appeasing him. And finally they were dominated and enslaved by him. Until someone stood up to him. Fully aware of the financial costs, political price and human loss that would come with resistance, those who resisted found there was no choice. The barbarism of tortured slavery was no alternative. Someone stood up to him. And won.
Thank God this is history.
Because wouldn’t it be terrible if a vicious ideological movement were moving across great swaths of land with lightning speed (blitzkrieg, if you will) consuming city after city, brutally expropriating people of their belongings, vaporizing their culture, torturing, raping and killing them with a nearly unparalleled gleeful sadism? Wouldn’t it be horrible if children and elders died of thirst after days in the wilderness shaking with fear that soon they might be murdered for their faith or ethnicity? Wouldn’t it be devastating to see symbols adorning homes and businesses systematically designating them to be targeted for terror and mayhem? Wouldn’t it be frightening if this movement were growing in followers, financing, weaponry and territory? And what if nobody but the tragic and vulnerable victims stood up to them?
Tod's entire piece should be read by all.
I don't think pinprick bombing campaigns are going to stop ISIS. I don't think blustering words from Western leaders who've blustered for too long now are going to do anything to stop those who are beheading and sawing children in half.
I don't think a level of evil exists that exceeds what we are witnessing here and I think it must be vanquished with extreme prejudice.
Those who mutilate women and children will not be negotiated with.
The West cannot allow this to stand.