Carpet bomb ISIS?

Obama: "Un-American" To Threaten To Carpet Bomb Middle East, Would Cause More Terror Attacks

"When I hear somebody saying we should carpet bomb Iraq or Syria, not only is that inhumane, not only is that contrary to our values, but that would likely be an extraordinary mechanism for ISIL to recruit more people willing to die and explode bombs in an airport or in a metro station. 

"That's not a smart strategy," Obama said Wednesday.

And I'm pretty sure it's illegal and in fact a war crime, or maybe a crime against humanity.

Who suggested any such thing?

Ah, Ted Cruz.

Why on earth would we intentionally attack the entire population of any part of Iraq or Syria - specifically, I suppose, the area controlled by ISIS?

All those civilians - men, women, children, all the people living there - are and should be regarded as captives and victims of the crazies.

Why the hell would we want to attack them?

I think the bare suggestion is very revealing.

It reveals key figures of the Republican Party and its mass of supporters are not just exaggerating, much less outright lying, for political effect when they suggest the view that we are at war with all of Islam.

They really just don't get it.

They really don't understand that the first and primary victims of Jihaders of all types are the other Muslim people they inflict almost all of their craziness on.

The primary target and the primary victim of Islamic fundamentalism is the entire Muslim world, upon which is vented nearly all of its violence and cruelty.

First and foremost and almost entirely, it's not about us.

Republicans and their supporters, on the other hand, seem honestly to see the Islamofascist problem as pitting the entire Muslim world against Europe, America, and in lesser measure everyone else.

That view is totally false.

The Islamofascist problem pits a tiny minority of violent extremists almost exclusively against the vast, non-violent, and non-extremist Muslim population of the world.

And most of those Muslims who are victims of Jihader violence or endangered by it very much want help from us in resisting that terrific Islamist onslaught.

As for attacks in Europe or in America, Muslim terrorism outside the Muslim world is the smallest of sideshows, blow out of all proportion by the most unscrupulous, one might almost say psychopathic, of frauds or the most deluded of fools.

Update.

Recall that Trump, talking about the entirety of the Islamic word, said Muslims around the world hate us, citing that supposed fact as indicative of the global threat to the US and the entire West of Muslim radicalism.