As it Turns Out, No Donald

ISIS is not going to be showing videos of Donald Trump anytime soon.  The idea that they care about the internal politics of the U.S. Is mostly fantasy invented by people who want to believe that everyone cares about our politics.  Most of the people it is trying to reach probably don't know who he is and could care less if he runs or doesn't.  If an errant bomb falls on a family in Syria, an ISIS propagandist will be there to make sure the blood of that child is clearly on camera.  The Taliban did it almost every day with bombs falling on "wedding parties" and family gatherings, where everyone present was carrying an AK-47.  It is, after all, a dangerous country and even a bride has to be protected.  

This illusion is part of the psychological warfare that every country uses and groups like ISIS and the Taliban have picked up from them.  They say, in a way, that these people are trying to live peaceful lives and some foreign power comes along and bombs them.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The Taliban, Hizbollah,  and ISIS have used the local populations of villages as hostages with the clear intent of making them targets.  They won't let the hostages run, and the live among them as protection from the bombs.  Israel has videos of Palastinians gathering on the rooftops of buildings so they wouldn't be bombed.  These are people who intentionally used the only weapon they had to stop them.  Those bombs are the great equalizer, something the Taliban and ISIS can't match.  Groups who protest the air and drone strikes try to come off as a ground swell of popular uprising against foreigners who bomb them, when the signs they carry are clearly not made in the back room of some mud house where the video is shot.    

If any of you actually believe ISIS cares one bit about who we elect as President, then look around at what they send out on social media.  It isn't pretty stuff made in Hollywood.  It isn't even that "slick" of a production.  It is largely crude, barbaric rambling of psychotic killers.  The few that aren't - real exceptions - are justification for killing others who don't believe the same way they do.  Muslims are finding out that a good number of them are included.