I pressed an article today about how conservatives see a hostile world….and this post illustrates just how that works…….enjoy

Since 9/11 we have boogey man after boogey man…..and we can thank people like John McCain and his minor bird, Lindsey Graham……these two have tried to give the US a bogey man a month….kinda like the fruit of the month club, only we get bad guys.  I am beginning to think these two get incentive pay for dashing to the nearest camera and ranting about the newest bogey man.

Anyway……last week these two with their butt buddy King were making the rounds on the tube of the news shows and their talking points were in lock step…..

“I think of an American city in flames because of the terrorists’ ability to operate in Syria and Iraq,” Graham told Fox News host Chris Wallace. “Mr. President, you have never once spoke directly to the America people about the threat we face from being attacked from Syria, now Iraq. What is your strategy to stop these people from attacking the homeland?”

The fear mongers speak!

Okay, I will be honest….there is a chance that IS will become the next AQ and zero in on the West for their flavor of terrorism……there are a few conditions to consider before you build your bunker for the onslaught of trouble.

The media is in lock step with the idea that the West is in serious danger…….

(Newser) – In the wake of two US airstrikes against ISIS, supporters of the extremist group that’s been seizing towns in northern Iraq are calling for retaliatory strikes against America, CNN reports. “It is a clear message that the war is against Islam and the mujahideen,” wrote the administrator of an online ISIS forum. “The mujahideen must strive and seek to execute proactive operations … to discipline America and its criminal soldiers.” Other ISIS followers are deriding the US with the Twitter campaign #AmessagefromISIStoUS and posting photos of the 9/11 attacks (which isn’t really new—they used the Twitter handle #CalamityWillBefallUS after ISIS took Mosul in June). Possible ways ISIS might strike the West include:

• A “crash” program: In this scenario, ISIS spends some of its tens of millions of dollars on arming European extremists who have joined the group (officials estimate there are up to 1,000 of them). This could reach American soil, because many Europeans can enter the US without a visa, and there’s talk of sophisticated bombing devices that can slip past airport security.
• Returned fighters: Extremists who fought for ISIS in Syria and returned home “could take matters into their own hands,” says CNN. Case in point: Mehdi Nemmouche, the French-Algerian accused of killing four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium this spring.

The media is doing all possible to fuel the hysteria that will soon grip the West…..they are pushing a narrative that the IS may be unstoppable, not all outlets but the ones that want to drive the conversation.  The major cable news channels trotted out round after round of pro-war guests, all parroting the administration’s “genocide” narrative, hyping the humanitarian problems of the ISIS war and pushing US intervention as the end-all, be-all solution of it all.

My take is that, yes we need to worry and be vigilant, but I believe that IS will be its own worst enemy.  For now the Iraqi Sunnis are siding with IS and that is purely for convenience, they would have sided with anyone that is in opposition of the Maliki admin……there will come a time when the Anbar tribes will turn on IS and its megalomaniac al-Baghdadi….and in the end he will meet the same fate as Mussolini in 1945…killed by his own people and his body put on public display.

Most people would like to know how long it will take for the IS threat to dissipate…..and that is a good question.  Me?  Only a guess….about another year.  The one thing that may speed up the demise is the Iraqi political situation.  If and when Maliki goes and he will not go quietly, and if inclusive politics breaks out then the tribes can see a way forward for all Sunnis in Iraq then and only then will they turn on IS.  But truthfully, what are the chances?

The big question in Iraq today: Will Nouri al-Maliki go quietly? As expected, President Fouad Massoum snubbed the two-term prime minister and said he must step down to make way for someone new. Massoum picked deputy parliament speaker Haider al-Ibadi to be the next PM and gave him 30 days to form a government, reports the AP. “Now the Iraqi people are in your hands,” said Massoum. The move comes after Maliki addressed the nation at midnight and insisted that he be allowed to remain in office because his is the largest bloc in parliament, reports the New York Times. He even deployed troops in the capital as a show of force.

But those actions may have only hurt his cause further, reports the Washington Post. It quotes a Kurdish politician who says the speech triggered a “major defection” today against Maliki within his Shiite coalition. “We have passed the stage of military coups and taking power by force,” says Hoshyar Zebari. The US, which has long seen Maliki as too polarizing, has already made clear that it expects Maliki to abide by Massoum’s decision and warned against any use of force

There are many directions Iraq can take in the next year…….and only Iraqis can say what that direction will be…..personally I think the Anbar tribes are the answer and the solution to this problem that is pressing the West….however, it could open a whole new arena of problems depending on how the situation is handled.