And there's the rub: I don't think most free citizens consider the murdering of thousands of people to be a crime. An attack, an act of war? Sure. But some weir

And there's the rub: I don't think most free citizens consider the murdering of thousands of people to be a crime. An attack, an act of war? Sure. But some weird version of a spree killing? Not so much. Especially when we're seeing large NGOs with missions to destroy/incapacitate existing nation-states. So to argue that "it's all the same" really does a disservice to the analysis here. It's not. In the past, we had clear lines of civilization: pirates and others who operated without being part of a nation-state were executed on the spot. Now, however, we want to treat anybody we meet as being all the same. That's a nice sentiment, but it ends up classifying ISIL as some weird kind of criminal organization, and it is most certainly not that kind of thing at all.