Their claim of religion has to be brushed aside as Hanuman brushed aside Ravana’s claim of devotion to Siva. They have to be treated as combatants because they are combatants.  (Not Soldiers, importantly, because they have no Soldier’s Code, but rather, combatants.)  We have to dig deeply into our cultural, moral and religious heritages and see where is the rationale for doing that. Evil doers hide behind the shams of clerical garb and mannerisms. As St. Jerome said, “A vestment does not make a bishop.”

Police/court force will not be enough to rid the world of these evil doers, Wahhabi and Iranian so-called clergy, given the scale of their penetration of nations, although that too is necessary. Military force is required over and above police/court force to put these posers away. Logically, the same assessment applies to every irreligionist (fanatic) claiming religious authority, no matter the religion claimed.

Update 1: See these resources:

Militant Ideology Atlas, Combatting Terrorism Center, United States Military Academy

Wahhabi Organization in North America, Center for Policing Terrorism, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Update 2: Former Obama Intel Chief: Administration’s Iran Policy Is Willful Ignorance

Update 3: Senator Tom Cotton on Iran.

Update 4: Scott Johnson: John Kerry’s Absolute Idiocy

Update 5: Goodnight Vienna.

Update 6: Michael J. Totten really does not get Iran, but this of his is worthy of the exercise of criticizing and useful for historical content none-the-less.

Update 7: Jim DeMint on the deadly deal with Iran.

Update 8: Charles Hill On The Iran Deal

Update 9: Michael Ledeen: How To Defeat The Grand Bargain With Iran

Update 10: Is there a socialist/fascist government that has ceased to exist and been replaced with humane government of some sort without the application, from external source(s), of diplomatic, financial and/or military warfare?  Fascist propaganda has made Americans allergic to just the thought of war … all the better for fascists to rule them.  Perhaps it’s time to treat that thought as the pathogen it is.

Update 11: Sohrab Ahmari: The 36-Year Project To Whitewash Iran

Update 12: Ayatollahs beat their chests on outwitting USA and Israel

Update 13: A side-point on this post: is it really true that Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, aka global Islamic hegemony by every means available? This statement is repeated again and again, seemingly everywhere, by everyone. Is it true? I do not know, but I suspect it is not true, and have no way to validate my suspicion.

I suspect al Saud is the world’s largest state sponsor of global Islamic hegemony (Caliphism), at least if large is taken to indicate monies spent and time-in-grade.

For example, who pays for the Islamic Centers, Islamic propaganda/information circulars/curricula and Islamic Studies Departments at … how many primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities around the globe? Who pays for the Islamic “prison ministries” in virtually every country not officially Islamic? Who pays for the madrassas in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere? Who is trying to bankrupt some countries while funding others as well as supposedly non-state actors?

Who fills the world’s media with continuous cascades of sanctimonious double-talk to justify global Islamic hegemony?

If my suspicion regarding the world’s largest sponsor of “terrorism” is correct, then a one-eyed laser-focus on Iran as the primary enemy of the USA in the ME flouts Von Clausewitz’ first rule of war, does it not?

Finally — and of this I am certain: in the ME, it is deeply and widely held as fundamental truth that the State of Israel birthed ISIS — which in the ME is deeply and widely hated by the generality — to cripple Arab freedom, independence and self-determination.

Update 14: Dick and Liz Cheney on Restoring American Exceptionalism

Update 15: [The Fraud’s] Secret Iran Strategy

Exhibit 15: Michael Doran on The Fraud’s strategy in re the Middle East:

You Should Really Read Michael Doran On [The Fraud] And Russia

Our Man In Moscow

[The Fraud’s] Secret Iran Strategy

Update 16: John Bolton: How To Get Out Of The Iran Nuclear Deal

Update 17: It would be possible and fairly easy to refute Trita Parsi on his own thesis that ME is about strategic matters rather than ideological ones.  He wants to insinuate that the mullah’s strategic interests are misunderstood, benign, and do not conflict with USA’s (… Iran’s continued difficulties in translating its strength to regional acceptance … is a gorgeous dissembling).

Had USA a grand national strategic goal matched to her actual interests in the ME, Parsi’s thesis could be taken apart point-by-point.

But USA has no grand national strategic goal matched to her actual interests anywhere in MENA.  The nearest such is POTUS Trump’s aversion to endless wars around the planet.  But that is not a grand national strategic goal, much less one that comprehensively reflects actual USA interests.

The last strategic statement POTUS Trump’s administration produced was Mattis/Tillerson/USA foreign policy establishment (aka massed morons) boilerplate dating to the 1940s.  Worse than worthless.  With friends like the USA foreign policy establishment, who needs enemies?

The needed work actually has been done, however, even circulated, just not discussed.

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA