If The U.S. Can Do Nothing With ISIS, Let Russia Finish The Job – Officer United States Air Force

For too long the United States has stood by while political Islam has grasped the Middle East, and we have done virtually nothing to stop it. In fact, we have worked under the lofty goal of democracy for all mankind to encourage it.

Contradictory to our democratic ambitions, we have worked to destabilize every secular state in the Middle East, knowing well of the political vacuum that exists in the region. Thus, we are left with political Islam as the only organized means of filling that void.
As a Muslim, I firmly believe that political Islam, regardless of how moderate, is a slippery slope that will inevitably — whether sooner or later — lead to radical extremist takeover.

Radical political Islam is the number one enemy of the modern world today, and needless to say is an enemy of the United States. But that being said, the United States does not have contiguous borders with any Islamic-majority nation. However, Russia does.
So when the media theorizes as to Russia’s motives and questions whether those motives are to simply prop up Bashar al Assad or to fight Islamic State — or just to simply make a statement that Russia is “back” — the media ignores both geography and history. Russia, in fact, shares borders with Islamic states and has a history of no less than 300 years of fighting continuous wars with an Islamic state called the Ottoman Empire. Simply put, while we in the United States (some 6,000 miles away) boast the luxuries of merely trying to implement all kinds of political theories to solve the problem of radical political Islam, or to take half measures to deal with it, Russia cannot afford to pussyfoot around it. Russia must deal with this problem now, before it appears on its soil and on its borders.

Political Islam must be addressed, so rather than panic over Russia’s involvement in Syria, we should all breathe a sigh of relief that finally someone will deal with this problem as it needs to be dealt with.
If we are not willing to fight radical political Islam wherever it appears, then let’s not stop those who will and or hinder those already on the ground carrying on the fight.

Ultimately, I can say that I never thought I would see the day, as a former Cold War warrior and an officer in United States Air Force Strategic Air Command, that I would be rooting for Russia to win a war.