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On the night after the Paris-terrorist rampage, three Democratic presidential hopefuls debated in Iowa and proclaimed that they were very, very concerned about the attacks and the growing evidence that ISIS—or Daesh, as it is called in the region—has metastasized into a true global threat. Very concerned. Senator Bernie Sanders thought that this barbaric challenge to civilization should be “eliminated” … although, he later allowed, Daesh was not as great a threat as global warming, which—hold on, here—causes terrorism. You know, droughts and floods set people in motion and … well, never mind.
Why is it so important to call Islamic radicalism by its proper name? Because it’s not just a word game. There is a crisis within Islam, an ideological struggle caused by the rise of Wahhabi-style fundamentalism over the past century. If we acknowledge the true nature of this battle, it becomes easier for us to identify our friends and enemies, especially the latter. Our enemies are those who have funded and promulgated -Wahhabi-style Islam through radical madrasahs in the Islamic world. It starts with Saudi Arabia, whose tottering monarchy made a devil’s bargain with local Wahhabi clerics decades ago. The Saudis seem far more concerned with Shi‘ite Iran than with the Sunni extremists of Daesh. In recent weeks, they and their Gulf allies have turned their attention away from Daesh and focused on the Shi‘ite rebels in Yemen, who represent a far less potent threat to global stability. And yet neither Saudi Arabia nor its radical, proselytizing strand of Islam was mentioned by the Democrats in the Iowa debate. The big question—unasked and unanswered by the Democrats—is whether the recent evidence of global reach by ISIS requires a change in U.S./NATO strategy. It is possible that some of France’s European neighbors are, finally, ready to take more robust military action. An alliance with Russia is no longer unthinkable. The central issue in the weeks to come will be, Can we build a military coalition—like the supple one built by George H.W. Bush in the Gulf War—to take on the limited mission of destroying Daesh’s safe havens without occupying them?
