Evil in the World

 

Previously, I defined evil as excess.  Excess of almost any kind and it has been given a name, The Seven Deadly Sins. 

An aspect of evil that we have historically seen, and are seeing today, is when numbers of adherents to the excess (evil) unite to force it upon others, who otherwise would not ascribe to it.  Examples are slavery, and the accompanying  racism, which haunts us even today, but not in an organized manner, Nazism, where the organized evil took the goal of eliminating an entire race of people.  And now radical Islam in the form of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, et al and their oppression of women and anyone who doesn't ascribe to their belief, who will not rest until the state of Israel is eliminated. 

There is a bible story of a pack of demons who were wandering the neighborhood when they found a herd of swine, into which they inhabited, and then were driven off a cliff.  Racism, in the form of the CSA, Nazism, and now Iran and the H's, are those demons wandering the neighborhood, and they inhabited swine.  The CSA and Nazism were driven off cliffs, it is time now to do the same to Iran and the H's.

The individual grasshopper does very little damage, but transforms into a locust under certain conditions and swarms, causing devastating damage to agriculture. This is analogous to the individual slave owner, the individual Nazi, or the individual Islamic extremist.

The U.S. stopped locust swarms through a multifaceted approach: early warning systems, targeted insecticide use, crop and farming adaptations, and destruction of breeding grounds, all coordinated at local and national levels. ( The Civil War, WWII, America's war with Iran.)

Perhaps, a game plan for dealing with radical Islam, just as it was for the other great evils we have known. The U.S. has not had major swarms since the early 19th century.