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Source: Obama and World Leaders Open Paris Climate Talks, Seeking a Deal – The New York Times

The most recent iteration of the last tango in Paris has drawn the attention of critics who point out the bizarre juxtaposition of self important stooges meeting to save the planet from the weather when just a few days earlier, at the very same spot, real people were being slaughtered by real antagonists.  This is framed as an act of defiance to the terrorists and I’m sure they’re all foaming at the mouth in outrage.

The real threat to civilization is not the weather; it’s not people driving SUV’s; it’s not even guys in masks with guns.  The real and most sinister threat to society is the metastasizing cancer that is willful stupidity. Somehow or other, major policy decisions on people’s lives have been placed in the hands of a very small cabal of assorted nutters and bureaucrats who commit entire populations to nonsensical and quixotic notions.

These people are operating in a delusional reality and are allowed to engage in self indulgent fantasies of life as they perceive it should be.   The roots of this can be traced back to the modern education system and in particular, college campuses where distortions of history and idealized versions of life are propagated to naïve minds.  Most recently, college campuses have been in the news for pushing the notion of ‘safe zones’ for students, areas where the precious Faberge eggs will not be exposed to racism, sexism, discrimination, or even foul language.  Yep, good life training.  Not only that, but school curriculums revise history to conform to the weenie sensibilities of today. That in itself is fodder for another piece in the future.

The results of this misguided and theoretical education system are graduates who live in the world of make believe rather than being able to deal with the actual realities of life.  They resemble the effete dogs kept by Park Avenue residents that are coddled, fed and cared for,  but which are entirely useless for life on their own. Worse yet, some  become professors set to brainwash the next generation.  Even worse yet, some go on to political office where they can project their make-believe realities into public policy.

The most recent annual “the world is going to end unless we act” summit witnessed the current collection of these ninnies, lawyers and self anointed experts, some old and some new, gather to sip fine bordeauxs, nibble on canapes and listen to each other bloviate as if they were the chosen ones to save mankind.  Think about that.  Throughout the multi million year history of the earth and the tens of thousands of years of man’s existence, it falls upon these bureaucrats and dweebs at this time to save the planet.   It doesn’t pass the sniff test for logic much less sanity.  They should have stayed with world hunger.

Source: Islamic State threatens to carry out attacks in Russia ‘very soon’

As the ISIS terrorist group has stepped up their activities, it looks more and more as if they really have no endgame other than mayhem and terror for its own sake.  The targets for their mayhem are of course the west in general,  with the Americans, the French and likely Israel near the top of the list.   But they’ve also kicked the Russian Bear, normally an enemy of the U.S, by claiming to have blown up a Russian airliner.  It’s not clear that they have supporters in the Middle East either, at least not overtly.  The Iraqis and Syrians disavow them and in fact are shooting them.   Though they claim a Muslim basis of justification for their actions, moderate Muslim groups have distanced themselves from ISIS.  They’ve isolated themselves from most everyone.

So what is the endgame? All the violence is notionally in the name of some interpretation of the Koran, but anyone who has a passing knowledge of the Koran knows that there is scant justification for the havoc being perpetrated in its name.  In the Christian Bible, there’s a well known passage about an eye for an eye, but you  don’t see Christians running around going all Aqib Talib every time they suffer a personal slight.

No, this is just pure evil, it seems to be murder for the sake of murder…as sport…that’s the endgame.   Up until ISIS came to notoriety, the first group of infamous evil guys were the Taliban.  Then along came Al Qaeda personified by Osama Bin Laden.  For a while, they were the main progenitors of fear and terror as demonstrated by the 9-11 World Trade center takedowns.  Boko Haram got into the mayhem business in Nigeria by kidnapping school girls, committing piracy on the high seas and blowing up hotels.  Now, some new Islamist group, Al Mourabitoun has claimed responsibility for a terror attack in Mali, taking over 30 lives.   These Islamist groups are appearing out of nowhere like bird droppings on a statue.  Some news sites are comparing the deaths attributed to each group as if they were football stats.  Apparently Boko Haram is now leading.

The west has fallen for the propaganda issued by all of these groups; the nonsense notion that the west has encroached upon Muslim sensibilities and therefore retribution is warranted.   The American president is apparently not too concerned about ISIS and ironically ISIS is not too concerned about the American president.  The west has been careful not to inflame religious sensibilities and  even avoid connecting the word Muslim with the word terrorist.  To this day, there are still idiots who think that the closing of Guantanamo Bay is necessary because its existence only serves to be a recruiting tool for those who would otherwise be peace loving pilgrims minding their own business.  Somehow the imprisonment of Islamist  thugs causes their blood to boil enough to go out to make someone else boil in blood.  There are those who still think that American foreign policy is responsible for the rise and spreading of these terror groups.  Those are the ones who flunked out of history class, where they otherwise would have learned that Muslims have been killing Christians for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Here’s the reality.  All of these groups do not consider their victims to be human.  The victims’  lives are no more consequential to them than flies on a dung pile.  The civilized world had better figure that out in order to fight the various incarnations of these groups properly; they need to adopt the same mindset.  A while ago, when Boko Haram kidnapped a bunch of schoolgirls, the west’s response was a social media campaign to “Bring Back Our Girls” as if an impassioned plea with thousands of likes would do the trick.  Not making that up.

How about civilized society puts together a crack team of the best video gamers in the world and assign them the task of executing kill programs as directed by intelligence agencies.  The various Islamist groups can’t be hard to find.  It’s a matter of political will to pull the triggers.  The Islamists think nothing of killing their victims like video game targets and so neither should there be any guilt by the civilized world in doing the same given the chance.  No second guessing, no hand wringing,  just sprites on a video screen.  We can even name this avenging group… we’ll call them El Kabong!  If it’s a deadly game, we should do our best to win. This is a better idea than those in charge now who think that reasoning, song singing and job offers will get the Islamists to stop killing.  The delusion has to stop. We need more Ah-nold and less Urkel. Bring on El Kabong.