2016-03-22, 10:54 AM
Horrible, sad, but not unexpected.
So they attacked in Egypt, in Istanbul, and now in Brussels.
We are, as I said, in a World War. And we need to step up our game if we want to win this one.
ISIS in under attack at home and abroad. The attack in Brussels now was likely carried out by cells that would otherwise have been exposed by those arrested recently spilling the beans. As we put more pressure on them, they'll get more desperate, and activate more dormant assets. We need to get to those before they blow themselves up together with innocent civilians.
SaptaZapta Wrote:I partially agree with you, and partially don't.
While it's true that equating what happened in Paris with harmless earthquakes cheapens it, I do think we need to PrayForTheWorld.
The events in Paris weren't an attack on Paris, or even on France, alone. They were an attack on the West, on the civilized world, on everyone who isn't (the "right" kind of) Muslim. The attackers chose Paris for various symbolic and logistic reasons, but their previous strike was blowing up the Russian plane taking off from Egypt, and their next target could be Sydney, or Washington, or The Hague, or Mumbai, or even Tehran (they did attack Hizbolla, the Lebanese fundamentalist Islamic organization backed by Iran and the Syrian regime).
So yes, PrayForParis, for the wounded, the bereaved, and the scared people there; but also PrayForTheWorld, because, make no mistake, we are in a World War.
So they attacked in Egypt, in Istanbul, and now in Brussels.
We are, as I said, in a World War. And we need to step up our game if we want to win this one.
ISIS in under attack at home and abroad. The attack in Brussels now was likely carried out by cells that would otherwise have been exposed by those arrested recently spilling the beans. As we put more pressure on them, they'll get more desperate, and activate more dormant assets. We need to get to those before they blow themselves up together with innocent civilians.