The irony is that a typical American 100 years ago would condone rape, slavery and genocide as they are currently defined. We don't consider our leaders and lu

The irony is that a typical American 100 years ago would condone rape, slavery and genocide as they are currently defined. We don't consider our leaders and luminaries rapists and slavemasters, or our past military conflicts genocides, precisely because we killed all the people who viewed them that way. We have the luxury of moralistically judging ISIS because it is not our homeland that we are fighting to preserve. We get to participate in a rather silly exercise in smugness in which we pretend our nation lives by a consistent and principled moral code. This is not an argument for relativism. My point is that our view of ISIS is through the lens of quite a bit of propaganda, which is very hard to filter out. Many of the regimes of our allies do equally horrible things. I'm not arguing that we should love ISIS, just that we should be consistent in our approach and not let our leaders propagandize us.