“You want a Caliphate? Fine. Then we’ll attach a fuse to the end of it and set that bitch on fire.”

“You want a Caliphate?  Fine.  Then we’ll attach a fuse to the end of it and set that bitch on fire.”  Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom has had enough of progressive and libertarian posturing, and is up for some action against ISIS and the other fundamentalist Islamic terrorists.  His conclusion:

So.  To all the preening liberals who may choose to point to this as evidence of bloodthirsty xenophobia or a thrill for war, I offer a preemptive response:  fuck you and the sophistry you’ll use to condemn me.  I hate war as much as anyone.  I’m just not stupid enough to think we can simply wish it away — particularly against an enemy who takes such joy in showing their trophies, be they the heads of children on pikes or the digital video recording of executions.  I don’t care why they do what they do.  I care that they’re made to stop.  By whatever means necessary.

That’s the real moral stand to take, unpopular amongst the finger-wagging nuanced crowd.  And no, I don’t care about them, either.

But go read the whole thing...