Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on November 18, 2015, 02:54:16 AM
The fact is no one seems to really know how to take this war to the IS.
I am not quite sure about that. For the "Islamic State" - who sees itself as a "state" - there are strongholds and even a kind of capital in the syrian
city of Al-Raqqa. I bet a lot of french bombers will make way there very soon (it did start on a small scale yesterday and the french reports say
that heavy damage was dealt to a trainings camp and a commando post). Since the Russians did announce yesterday (or the day before) as well,
that the civil plant which crashed above Sinai was victim to a IS bomb, well now they got a fierce enemy. Putin knows how to deal damage to his
foes and surely he will do exactly that. As he said: "We will not only go on with the bombings, but we will intensify them to the point that this
savages see, there is no good coming to them by doing what they do." (free translation of his words before the Duma). Sure, you cannot crush the
IS with bombs alone but in my mind bombs (real, fucking intense bomb raids - remember Dresden ?) are a good starting point to show this so called
warriors of Allah that their pick-ups and old-style flak weapons are surely not enought to opposse the unleashed power of modern weaopons
technology. I quite sure, that many of this young people from around the world you did mention, will realize that the continuing support for Al-Baghdadi
and his chimera state will let them to sure death and i doubt the 100% obsession of every single one of them - let alone the civilians who are by
fact needed to run every model of a state, however this state looks or operates. Long story short: i am sure that in the aftermath of Paris, the IS
will start to pay for real. I welcome that.