joe honickI sure hope no one sees this as unpatriotic, but the reality is our various partisan proclaimers actually have been entertaining ISIS in ways they seem not to understand.

First, virtually every GOP campaigner has a recipe for how to knock off ISIS. Recipes are fine for kitchen chefs but useless in determining military and political strategies, especially when contained in press releases and/or featured on the op-ed pages of major media. If the media tell the world(and ISIS)what to do and what to expect, does any mental midget not figure out how to prepare for such possibilities?

Second, ISIS “management” has to be amused by the fact so many geniuses are suddenly emerging from all sorts of organizations pretending to be THE answer to their defeat and how such commentators all disagree with each other and, worse, assault virtually anything advance by our own “management.”

Third, at least some in ISIS’ PR operation, as there must be one, given the organization’s obvious ability to access world media often with pretty darned good videos and other communication vehicles that are not only effectively boastful but raise lots of questions we don’t see handled from our side….must wonder at our own disjointed propaganda approaches.

The single most powerful reality that must be observed by our ISIS adversaries is that they, on the one hand, seem to have a clear vision of goals, strategies and tactics. We -- whoever “we” are since our coalition campaign that began about a year or so ago -- seem to have daily attempts from politicians, organizational professors and others sure they have the right formulas, as noted earlier.

So the ISIS Boardroom, for convenience sake, must have a lot of scratching heads while they see a vastly disunified United States, wondering perhaps why all those folks on all sides of political action do not seem to realize the power of unity and commitment through bi-partisanship in time of crisis. Seeing this irresponsibility, the ISIS tacticians can simply deploy people with singular goals to destroy and hurt and disrupt major societies without ever confronting an army or any other major fighting force.

Failing enough “troops” at ISIS immediate operations, it has been shown those folks seem to do a pretty effective job at “radicalizing” young people almost anywhere in what used to be called the “free world.”

So, Joe Honick, what does your criticizing mind suggest ?

A fair question.

Well, it’s clear the First Amendment keeps us from quieting a “Mein Kampf” candidate like Donald Trump. BUT the President himself has yet in any persuasive way to invite key leaders of the Republican party to help demonstrate a modicum of American unity by sitting down with him for a strategy session and to bring their own disparate geniuses with them.

Such a well publicized invitation would fill the broadcast media promptly as a challenge to his opposition to help show the enemy we still are one nation, even as politics as usual can proceed on mostly domestic issues for the time being.

Before taking such a step, it would be doubly effective were he to get the appropriate opposition leaders on the phone so he and they could either make a joint statement or make a show of responding to each other.

There is no genius in such moves, and what a wonderful chance for the PR pro’s from all sides to cheer on the show of unity as a powerful means to still the entertainment of ISIS now on display.

As I’ve asked elsewhere, is it too much to ask for the good of the whole country, maybe the world for political warriors to lay down their propaganda arms for a bit?

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Joseph J. Honick is president of GMA International in Bainbridge Island, Wash.