One Small Step

Credit for the following idea goes to Howie Carr on talk radio in Boston. There is lots of ringing of hands about localized Islamic terrorists who have been inspired and/or learned their trade over the Internet ... using social media sites and chat rooms. Yes, the United States should encourage these social-media plutocrats to pay some attention to these terrorist threats instead of pushing their liberal agendas. And there have been some preliminary developments taken in this direction ... but surely not enough.

However, the much bigger issue is, in fact, the access to the Internet itself. If we have intelligence agencies worth the billions we spend on them, we should be able to identify the loci ... be they radio stations or ISPs or cell towers or whatever ... of where the ISIS and other radical Islamists are accessing the net ... be it in Raqqa or Benghazi or Kirkuk or whereever. Then use some precision ordinances to destroy these internet transmission points ... over and over again if necessary

I think this simple one-step strategy is called nipping the problem in the bud. Can there be any reason why this has not been done already? (Just like, why did it take us over two years even to begin to attack the oil infrastructure that was funding ISIS?)  If there is a rationale for sitting on our hands here, I shudder to contemplate it.