What is ISIS?

People try to define ISIS all sorts of ways but I think none of them are that useful.

I think it is important to define ISIS as a worldwide Sunni Muslim Terrorist Movement.

Once you define it this way you might begin to fight it.

Why is it happening right now?

I think Sunnis have felt marginalized by the world for some time.

Or more appropriately, the most extreme Sunnis have felt marginalized for some time(and remember there are 1.1 billion Sunnis now on earth)

So, a certain amount of them (maybe 1% or less) are willing to go and fight or send their children to fight with ISIS and to kill anyone who isn't ISIS and Sunni.

So, seeing ISIS is a movement and not just a terrorist group is important.

Demsey, the head of the Joint Chiefs of staff of the U.S. military understands this.

This is one reason why the U.S. has not sent in American troops on the ground to fight ISIS.

Because this might increase ISIS recruitment of ISIS soldiers by about 4 times.

ISIS wants to fight the U.S. Army more than any other and they want to all die fighting the U.S. Army over all others. So, the last thing the U.S. should do is to send in the U.S. Army

Because this is only going to increase ISIS fighters exponentially.

So, knowing what ISIS is is the first step in fighting and changing it into something else the world can deal with better.

Is the world responding to ISIS appropriately?

ISIS in the end is a religious depopulation phenomenon much like lemmings jumping off a cliff   from overpopulation. It is an aberration but also something we might see more of around the world as overpopulation becomes more and more of a problem in places with no birth control in use(or very little).

And is the world responding to ISIS appropriately?

Most of the world doesn't really understand fully what ISIS is yet. And until more people understand it, it won't be dealt with properly in such a way that it can be defeated. ISIS is an idea of having a Sunni Caliphate once again where everyone is killed on sight except Sunni Muslims.

Defeating this idea will take some time to see how this philosophy is vulnerable to attack. We are not attacking people in ISIS we are attacking their ideas of killing everyone that doesn't believe just like them. This will take time to create the right philosophical anti-ISIS force from universities and armies around the world.  IT took time to defeat Hitler too even though he murdered 6 million unarmed Jewish men, women and children in various horrific ways. Likewise today Shiites, Christians, Yazidis, Turkmen, The Druze and others are all being murdered just like the 6 million Jewish unarmed people were gassed and murdered during World War II by Hitler. And what is really crazy about Hitler was he was Jewish too and must have been filled with self hate.

Likewise, the horror and terror ISIS soldiers must be experiencing as they kill everyone who isn't like them must be tearing their minds and emotions apart (if you consider them sane in the first place). However, if your goal is to die in battle I'm not sure how sane a point of view that is either.

So, if you start with the premise that these people are not sane (at least by western standards), it is sort of like fighting zombies or something like that that is inhuman.

But, this is pretty alien for the average human being (even in the army) to deal with. Because you aren't dealing in the end with human beings that most in the western world would consider sane.

So, if you are dealing with people who aren't really human or sane (from a western point of view) they might as well be from another planet or universe than the rest of us.

And I don't think most people have thought enough about this to come up with a plan yet to actually defeat the movement that ISIS is.