Small-Worlders and Shut-Ins believe in community -- even if it's just a city block, or even less -- simply because they can see what's happening around them. This is immediate. This is their whole world. This is a grouping of persons, not necessarily people who are liked, not necessarily purely Small-Worlders and Shut-Ins, but they are recognized as being group-members, as being neighbors, as being known faces in the local crowd. They may occasionally fight with each other, but they can generally get along. They may disagree, but still get together for a morning cup of coffee, still share gardening equipment, still help each other with car trouble, still sit with each others' kids. They tolerate each other and they manage to get along.

It takes an Outgoing Personality to see beyond this community, to see beyond the local horizon, to see that this world of ours is indeed finite, a vast thing, true, but one to be cherished, a cradle for all humanity to share. A thing to protect.

In 2003, I rejoiced this world's embarkation upon a glorious journey, with the completed mapping of the human genome. New medicines were being developed to ease life, to combat disease, with cancer and multiple sclerosis taking hard hits. We learned that everyone had cancer triggers, but we also learned there were healthy choices each person could make that physically shut these genetic killer-switches off, that dramatically increased the general human life span.

At the recent formation of the notorious IS, the world embarked upon a newer, far more hazardous journey. Again, we have choices to make, some of them healthy, some of them difficult, but all of them necessary. Today, the disease of terrorism, both abroad and home-grown, needs to be purged from the system.

The threat we now confront is the very real potential for a global conflict, one which includes for terror groups the further development of weapons of mass destruction, a war which may well include all nations, even bringing our Small-Worlders and Shut-Ins of the local, city-block-sized communities to be seized in bitter, bloody conflict.

I am an Infantry man, and I know a thing or two regarding tactics. For the IS to have any hope of winning their current battle, they must believe in total victory. They must believe there can be no reprisal. They must believe this, and they must believe the West will fall to the wayside.

The West?

Many take the Nevil Chamberlain approach, believing, as with handling their minor neighborhood disputes, the IS can be "calmed," “pacified” even, to a better state of purpose. After decades of war, it is believe we can now talk of peace. Well, this can happen, but only when both sides grow weary of death and seek life, not just the one side. That is what makes any treaty a binding pact -- honesty, devoid of duplicity.

This being the current state of affairs, I do not see any lasting peace to be a possibility. The IS are not our “Misguided Children,” to be scolded and sent to their rooms. The IS are the “True Believers.” These are the “Warriors of God.” These are people on a “Heavenly Path of Righteousness.” Cut them, do thy not bleed the blood of the Prophet? Kill them, will they not find solace in the Divine Presence of Allah.

And we're supposed to to coddle them, to scare them into peace?

It's a nice idea. I like it. Everyone should be able to just get along with everyone else. Trouble is, it just don't work out that way. Deviants exist, show themselves, harm, maim and kill the Small-Worlders, the Shut-Ins, as well as the Outgoing Personalities. It ain't pretty, but that's what's going on. We can catch them, corral them, keep them locked up until they die (at great taxpayer expense), or we could simply eliminate them, and likely with the same cost in Allied lives as would be lost to keep them alive.

Hess remained in our care in Berlin until he finally died. Manson will stay until he's dead and buried. A hanging would have been a lot cheaper with the both of them. Is there a reason IS Militants with designs on sinking the West (all of it) and murdering as many Westerners (regardless of education, sex, occupation or age) as they can should be handled better than these two misfits? Tell me all about it.