it's baffling that i need to remind people of this, but i do:
ISIS systematically committed torture, mass rapes, forced marriages, extreme acts of ethnic cleansing, mass murder, genocide, robbery, extortion, smuggling, slavery, kidnappings, and the use of child soldiers; in ISIS' implementation of strict interpretations of Sharia law which were based on ancient eighth-century methods, they carried out public "punishments" such as beheadings, crucifixions, beatings, mutilation and dismemberment, the stoning of both children and adults, and the live burning of people. ISIS committed mass rape against tens of thousands of children, mostly girls and women (mainly members of non-Sunni minority groups and families).
it's widely understood that the wives - most of whom are not from the middle east, but came to the region out of their own free will - are deeply complicit in all of this. they participated in the slavery, and the genocide and all of the rest of it. they were not passively observing - they were actively participating.
so, is calling for the bombing of isis camps the same thing as calling for a bombing of the middle east? hardly - it's essentially the opposite of that. is calling for justice equivalent to calling for genocide? these are warped arguments, true mental gymnastics. and, as stated previously, what they really expose is a level of sympathy for the islamic state, for whatever reason - perhaps some kind of ideological allegiance, and perhaps some kind of misguided ethnic identification.
let us all be clear: the biggest victims of isis were the people that live in the region - arabs, iranians, kurds, turks, jews and others alike. isis poses little threat to the west, but it poses a dramatic threat to the freedom of people in the middle east. and, while i'm generally not a strong advocate of intervention and war, there are some bad guys that are worth fighting against.
i understand that my prescription is harsh, but it's intent is to minimize violence, in the long run. these women are monsters. they need to be brought to justice. and, these children are not reformable - not except in the youngest of cases.
i'm not calling for the extermination of the isis camps because it makes me happy to do so; i'm calling for the extermination of the isis camps because i recognize the grave threat that they pose to the people in the region, and realize the need to take action, before it is too late.
you can disagree - that's ok.
but, don't call it genocide. that's just stupid.