What we really fear is not bombs.
Families are losing their children in our names everyday – we don’t give a shit. As long as we can choose from endless shelves of breakfast cereals in the grocery store, all is well.
No, I think what we really fear is the IS’ intolerance for corruption. These people are willing to die for their ideals (however twisted those may be). Can you say that about yourself? In your whole life, have you ever met a single person who could say that for themselves?
No, we shrug everything off, pressing out an antsy laugh, “everyone has their price”, “sooorryyyy, gotta pay the rent, dude”, "well, whatcha gonna do, right?"
With our society being built upon corruption, we fear their integrity and see the very fabric of our belief tunnel dissolving. Haven't we've been told that everybody has their price? That money is God? If that is the truth, how can there be people who put other beliefs above it?
We also fear finally reaping the crops we’ve been planting for decades and centuries.
Just personally I’ve been witnessing it on TV since the first invasion of Iraq in 1991.
Choudary, 2010:
If you send bombs, what do you expect to get back? Chocolate?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A75Vg__GcqQ
Read the papers the “Pact for a New American Century” has put out in the late 90s and then tell me world history since then “just happened”.
Listen to any random Noam Chomsky lecture, for example how we "implemented policy" in Latin America in the 70s and 80s.
My heart is with the affected families in Paris and the horror they go through right now.
Still, attacks like the ones in Paris are not even a tiny drop compared to the ocean of atrocities committed in our names, supported by our money, fueled by our guns, going on every day, decade after decade.
If we stopped now, we still could expect decades of being paid back.
But we don't stop. Why would we?
There is so much money to be made. So much power to exert.
Homo homini lupus est.