WORLD_ If we don’t attack Isis, they will attack us

If we don’t attack Isis, they will attack us

By Sean Thomas World Last updated: August 17th, 2014

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So that’s all right then. We can all relax, and go back to playing boules. The Yazidi are apparently off the mountain, there’s a nice new Iraqi prime minister in office, Isis have been stalled outside Irbil, and Hitler has agreed to watch the fifth Test match with an eye to mastering the rules of LBW.

Except, it’s not all right, is it. Because Isis (Or ISIL, or IS, or Nightmare on Arab Street, or whatever they lately call themselves) aren’t going to stop here. They are sucking in power, they possess a third of Syria and a third of Iraq, they are attracting hormonal, spotty, sex-deprived Islamist yoofs with an eye for a blonde Yazidi concubine from right across the world, they have tanks, missiles, $2 billion, an income of $3 million a day, and, most of all, they are utterly fanatical and they revel in their cruelty.

We’ve been here before, of course. No, not just with the Nazis. A better comparison for the evil of Isis is actually the Khmer Rouge: the only regime in my lifetime with an equal and obviously demonic complexion.

In many ways Isis are the Khmer Rouge with prayer mats. Both wear, or wore, black, as if to emphasise their nihilism. Both expanded – even exploded – from stupid wars engendered by the West. Both ruthlessly murdered any rival factions, ensuring that they became the sole standard-bearer for fellow travellers.

The parallels go on. The Khmer Rouge used hallucinatory violence as a technique and leitmotif – ripping foetuses from living women, smashing babies against trees – as do Isis, beheading anyone they fancy and tweeting the result, burying women and kids alive. Just as Isis are fiercely, fundamentally religious – slaughtering the infidels, the heathens, the Christians, the Shia, or even tribes of Sunnis who don’t cut the jihadi mustard, so the Khmer Rouge were fiercely, fundamentally atheist – promising to tear down every temple, and throw every single monk into the sea. Which they did.

The two forces are likewise similar in their aims and accomplishments. The Khmer Rouge managed to kill 2 million Cambodians (a third of the nation’s population), Isis will aim to kill many more than that, and they may well succeed, if they manage to get hold of chemical weapons, dirty bombs, nukes, and/or the lost souls of lonely young men in London, Paris, Moscow, and Detroit. As the KR despised and feared anyone outside their core, Isis believe we – by which I mean everyone on the entire planet who does not submit to their ideals, or convert to their deviant form of Islam – are at once a threat and an abomination, worthy of nothing but death, or grotesque servitude.

Paradoxically, within this comparison there is some bleak hint of hope.

Khmer Rouge Maoism, in its craziness (in the end they were killing anyone who laughed) turned out to be the tertiary form of communism – the medical end point of the ideological syphilis that is revolutionary socialism. Far from ushering in a global Marxist Utopia, in their unstoppable bloodlust and insanity the Khmer Rouge first cannibalised their own, by slaughtering tens of thousands of “suspect” KR supporters, then they invaded a much more powerful neighbour, Vietnam, thus ensuring their own destruction. Thirteen years later, all of communism came tumbling down with the Berlin Wall. It turned out that the Khmer Rouge was the ne plus ultra of extreme left wingery, and was a harbinger of its own demise.

Will the same hold true for Isis? We can only pray that is the case – that Isis represents the final, flailing, tongue-biting form of Islamism, which augurs the death of this vile ideology, rather than its planetary expansion.

But for the moment, that is, merely, a prayer. And until that prayer comes true, the fact of the matter is this: we will have to attack Isis militarily, as the Prime Minister suggests, and try and destroy them – before they try and destroy us. And the longer we wait to strangle the snake, the bigger the snake becomes.

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