Saturday, November 14, 2015

ISIS & Heavy Metal In Paris: Motive And Opportunity

Heavy metal in Paris.Eagles Of Death Metal were playing in Paris at the Bataclan Hall to a sold out audience.Enter ISIS. In less than an hour over 300 were dead or wounded.Motive? Heavy metal music by itself could of been the reason. But ISIS claims the attack was revenge for French bombing in Syria.Turnabout is fair play.Opportunity? France is most liberal country in European Union.Consequently their borders and policies are open to all.Rethink both those policies.France didn't call in an airstrike on Bataclan like they might of done in Aleppo or Homs, Syria.Too much expensive real estate and collateral death possibilities in downtown Paris.So what will be the French response? More bombing in Syria? What's left to bomb? It's almost an asteroid now.Last count estimated six to eight ISIS operatives carried off this coup. Probably the whole enterprise cost couple of thousand dollars and the lives of 6-8 throw away people.France's immediate losses ramp into the millions on top of years of peace keeping/bombing runs in Middle East.You do the math.It wont work as a business nor a winning war strategy.ISIS in Middle East has short inexpensive logistics. They are fighting in their homelands.Extermination by the West?We can't kill that fast nor that expansively.We in U.S. experienced 9/11? Did we learn?No.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

My heart goes out to the people of Paris.We here in the US know exactly what going through there minds ,confusion ,anger and why. The same day 911 happened I had ''We will never forget '' stickers made and gave them to all the workers on the job site we were at .Yes i was angry ,but deep down inside of me I new eventuality we would find some sort of reason for it and go on are merry way.I feel the same thing will happen there in France,but this should be a wake up call for all of us.Its not going to go away and we will always remember .