It’s the usual that you can expect from Islamist fanatics: no freedom of religion, assembly, no public graves, no alcohol or drugs, no women allowed outside unless absolutely necessary – and wearing restrictive, depersonalizing clothing when they do – and, of course, nothing resembling a secular state. The liberal American Left would absolutely hate living in those portions of Iraq and Syria that ISIS ends up controlling, not least because the second they got caught they’d be taken somewhere and then beheaded for the benefit of Islamist murder porn websites. Because that’s what happens.
Am I angry? Yes. In 2009 we handed over what was at least a functional situation to the Democrats, and as long as the Democrats continued to do precisely the same things (well, as well as they could) as we did things seemed… stable enough. But apparently that wasn’t enough. And now we’re going to have a load of pain in the Middle East until the grown-ups start running the American government again.
Joy.
Moe Lane
PS: Oh, we’ll get through it. But like T.H. White’s King Arthur, I assign a value to Middle Easterner’s life and limbs: the value assigned by the Middle Easterners themselves. They aren’t cardboard cutouts that move, ten years of antiwar agitprop to the contrary.
PPS: Sure, great, have the Iranians come on in. Does no one in this administration know how to read?