Fighting ISIS obviously has unintended consequences, which we experience as violent blowback on us and our allies (principally France, right now). It's important to know that defeating ISIS will also put us in the cross hairs.
Remember, wiping the Islamic State off the map won't guarantee the death of every last fighter. Toward the end great numbers of them will melt into the terrain, will blend into the local population. Awaiting the call.
More important, the guys running the cyber division may already be well-hidden, far from the conflict zone. Web sites celebrating ISIS victories can just as easily promote a sense of revenge growing out of the ultimate defeat.
The Islamic State is specifically a holy entity. Destroying it is a religious crime that will cry out for redress.
This represents a new and dangerous level of involvement.
Moderate Muslims who noted with mild interest a minor ISIS victory are far more likely to be galvanized into action by its utter destruction.
Expect the propaganda wing of ISIS to beat the drum in a frenzy of outrage, calling for action against the perpetrators. And expect that call to be met.
Imagine a stadium full of lone wolves spreading out across the US, fired up and thirsty for blood. Imagine a hundred small planes taking off from a hundred different airports, all headed for the White House.
Imagine ninety-nine out of every hundred pressure cookers sold in this country used to make bombs. Imagine the end of pressure cookers as a legal consumer product.
Or this: Imagine fertilizer banned for all uses for the next thousand years—causing world-wide starvation.
ISIS sits now at the edge of the Muslim world. Destroying it could move it to the center. And bring about a global religious war.
(C'mon, Christians! All aboard the Armageddon train!)
Are human beings really that crazy?
Just watch.
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