This is how I know we need to start a drug testing program for Congress.

“If you destroy one power in the Middle East, you empower the other side, and the four groups that are fighting ISIS now are in many ways nearly as evil as ISIS itself, and in fact, those who are fighting against ISIS today on the ground have killed far more Americans than ISIS has,” said Sherman, top Democrat on the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee.

Oh please.  If this guy is the top Democrat on the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee, then we are really in trouble.  If this is what passes for cogent thought, then we might as well make it so that house plants can run for office.  I have gotten smarter analysis from my dog.

I have a plan for this particular problem, in light of the events we have seen playing out over the past months and with the coming anniversary of the attack on the 11^th of September, I have what I would think is a reasonable and thought out plan to bring this little period of Islamic feistiness to a close:  we let the Islamic groups the Congressman is talking about kill each other into extinction and then we can bomb what’s left of them into extinction ourselves.

Simple plan really.  The Islamic world has decided that they are not going to play along with the rest of the world regarding modern concepts like religious tolerance, ethnic diversity, respect for the rule of law, the liberation of women and abiding by the social contract of modern nations.  Basically, ISIS and ISIL and every other acronymed group with Islamic tendencies have decided that with the exception of modern weapons and cell phones, they would like to live in a time where the Magna Carta would have been considered a new and novel concept, along with indoor plumbing.

Because of this, they have self selected to become the ostracized red-neck uncles of the entire planet that no one wants to invite to family functions, and when your red-neck uncle finally gets drunk and angry enough on the perceived power he has at the family picnic that he pulls a gun out and starts waving it around, well, it is time for him to just go away.  But since this particular red neck uncle is a psychopath who shouldn’t own anything sharper than a water balloon, someone may have to put him down.  The rest of us (including the up and coming nations who are bothering no one) want to live in peace and harmony; but every neighborhood needs a cop, so that the red neck uncle knows that he is trespassing if he shows up at the family picnic this year and that if he gets wild with his knife, the cops will shoot him.

Oh, there would be complaints from the peace thugs about “why did we self-elect to run the world” and “who are we to tell other nations what to do” and my favorite “How dare we wage an illegal war to enrich the Military Industrial Complex.”  Well, we could debate all of those things individually, but the entire crux of the matter is this:

Are we going to let these savage animals run free to kill anyone of any religion, lopping off heads and running airplanes into buildings and enslaving nations while we debate how to talk, negotiate, or appease them into changing their ways; or are we going to just put the animals down so that we can all live in peace and get back to moving as many nations as possible toward prosperity and freedom?  The idea that we have to favor or not favor some group (who is someone that doesn’t like us anyway) killing another group (who has the same lack of fondness for us) is just dumb.  We can favor none of them and let them kill themselves to oblivion.

So see Congressman, the problem is really simple.  If it helps, you can think of it like an election.  All the challengers in your next primary just get eliminated one by one through dirty politics, partisan infighting, lack of funding, loss of interest etc. until there is only one left, and then because elections are ‘winner take all” if you get enough votes, you get to run the show.

And because the First World is growing weary of having to look after the animals in the zoo, it might be time to let the herd thin itself out for awhile, and then finish the job when the herd gets down to its last members.

Before they overrun the zoo…..