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According to CNN, Raqqa is

Aaron Carine — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:05:46 +0000

In reply to The odds of being injured or

According to CNN, Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered stated that no civilians were killed in the French attack.

That sort of tribalism is

ocean-kat — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:00:40 +0000

That sort of tribalism is natural and common. I'm sure the French victims of 9/11 got a lot of air time on French TV, as well as victims from other countries got their air time on their country's tv.

So if NYC 'tightens security'

NCD — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:47:03 +0000

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So if NYC 'tightens security' it's supposed to be a secret? News should be sanitized so as not to scare viewers and help the terrorists? That is a profile in...courage?

Who does the filtering...?

The western world, and certainly not Germany alone, cannot absorb entire populations of the 'tired, hungry, poor' from every war torn Muslim nation, from Pakistan to Libya.

Cameron has said you cannot have a social safety net, & social security with open borders, the UK doesn't have one.

At some point, what is wrong with these Muslim nations, their governments, their community/social values and, and yes, their religious tenets the mixture of which is allowing thousands of them to engage in wholesale murder of each other, and mayhem, must be recognized, and addressed, mostly by themselves. The West cannot cure what ails them and their societies. Moving them to Europe won't cure the problems that caused their exodus, it may only spread those problems.

As to 'expending their resources' Paris already had at least 2 attacks this year before this one, from Match magazine, Sept. 2015, some of the points:

A seasoned French anti-terror expert says France is destined to be subject to Muslim terrorist attacks and will not be able to prevent them. He says it takes 25 officers to monitor 24/7 one radical suspect living in France.

Muslim radicals on Jihad over Iraq/Syria/Libya wars, local and imported across open EU borders, are increasingly too adept with plans and communication to be detected by anti-terror police.

They are living in isolated non-assimilated Muslim communities.

Even with law changes, more terror judges, or even a lock 'em up Gitmo type operation...it will prove impossible to stop all attacks.

The question of moral

moat — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:44:37 +0000

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Yeah, people running in fear. Funny.

So, you are cool with the killings in Paris because they are a response to the people who died in the bombings in Syria.

Duly noted. After this explanation, it is clear that only France is responsible for what has happened. And here I was, thinking it might be more complicated than that.

Merci.

But somehow they always

CVille Dem — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:26:40 +0000

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But somehow they always manage to bring up that "an American" was among the victims. Or only one, or ten... How about, "among the victims, there are French, German, English, and so far, one American." It just makes us seem a little less like the selfish assholes that we are if we might include others in the report.

The odds of being injured or

Peter — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:44:15 +0000

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The odds of being injured or killed in one of these attacks are still extremely low but that didn't stop hundreds of people in Paris from running in fear, for no apparent reason, from a gathering in Paris today.

More dangerous and reactionary is that the French government is in panic mode demanding a three month state of emergency while their warplanes bombed civilians in al-Raqqa Syria to display their superior moral standards.

Yes, I got the memo about how

moat — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:39:50 +0000

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Yes, I got the memo about how we all can be killed at anytime.

Since you brought up the subject of eras, I suggest you get caught up on the history of warfare. There have been some developments that you need to understand before venturing an opinion about what being given no quarter looks like now.

Another era that has ended is

Peter — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:13:27 +0000

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Another era that has ended is where Western populations are differentiated from their Crusader militaries and governments, OBL made this point very clear. In or out of uniform you, I and everyone else are justifiable targets to be given no quarter.

I doubt there will be much voting, polling or popularity contests involved in this growing Islamic force. Enough people will offer support, more than enough will submit to its authority and the rest will flee or face the sword.

My Templar uniform is being

moat — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:36:33 +0000

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My Templar uniform is being cleaned so I will not be doing any subduing today. So I might as well point out a few details that eluded your account. The Daesh will only prosper if enough of the Muslim world consider it's claim to bear the Caliphate to be legitimate. What if you throw a Caliphate and nobody comes?

All the involvement by outside parties in the conflict are clearly aligned with Muslim people who are not on board with their project. It goes without saying that the outside groups have their own agendas. But your interpretation makes all those other Muslims out to be simple tools. That argument has certainly been made by Al Qaeda and the like. But the fact remains that Daesh is doomed if enough Muslims repudiate it.

Denial of the reality of the

Peter — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 18:03:19 +0000

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Denial of the reality of the power and global reach of the Islamic State will only produce a short lived false sense of security. There may not be many people willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their cause but there are enough and every bomb the US, France or Russia drops helps to create new volunteers to fight the Crusaders.

The era of subduing the Muslim world with force without costs or reprisal has ended, they have learned our ways and how to avoid and circumvent our security as these recent attacks have clearly shown.

The actual number of attacks on the Crusader homelands doesn't need to be large to create the desired fear and reactionary responses, the French frontier is closed for the first time since WW2 and refugees will be targeted for surveillance and repressed while civil liberties will take a secondary position behind civil defense.