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After Paris attacks, experts warn against 'wars of vengeance'
As details trickled out about Friday’s deadly attacks in and around Paris, observers urged world leaders to avoid knee-jerk responses both at home and abroad.
“The true test for France is how they respond to the terror attacks in the long-game—that’s the king in all this,” said analyst and former U.S. Foreign Service employee Peter Van Buren in an op-ed Sunday. “America failed this test post-9/11; yet it does not sound like France understands anything more than America. ‘We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless,’ French president [François] Hollande said outside the Bataclan concert hall, scene of the most bloodshed.”
Indeed, beating the drum for “all-out war” would not be strategically sound, critics cautioned in the wake of the attacks.
ISIS leadership “is hoping to precipitate a Western ground offensive in Syria that would be as disastrous as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the very invasion that fed what would become the ‘Islamic State’,” wrote author and academic Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies the Paris School of International Affairs, at Politico on Sunday.
MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/after-paris-attacks-experts-warn-against-wars-of-vengeance/
“The true test for France is how they respond to the terror attacks in the long-game—that’s the king in all this,” said analyst and former U.S. Foreign Service employee Peter Van Buren in an op-ed Sunday. “America failed this test post-9/11; yet it does not sound like France understands anything more than America. ‘We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless,’ French president [François] Hollande said outside the Bataclan concert hall, scene of the most bloodshed.”
Indeed, beating the drum for “all-out war” would not be strategically sound, critics cautioned in the wake of the attacks.
ISIS leadership “is hoping to precipitate a Western ground offensive in Syria that would be as disastrous as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the very invasion that fed what would become the ‘Islamic State’,” wrote author and academic Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies the Paris School of International Affairs, at Politico on Sunday.
MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/after-paris-attacks-experts-warn-against-wars-of-vengeance/
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Oh boy, so now ISIS made a video saying they are coming to the US next.
but I'm not scared.......not with all those good guys with guns, the NRA and 2nd amendment
Right?
