Hollande: ‘Act Of War’
Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, French President François Hollande accused the Islamic State (IS) group of conducting a series of attacks in and around Paris late Friday that left at least 127 people dead. Speaking from the Elysée presidential palace the morning after France saw its worst day of violence since…
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rg9rts November 14th, 2015 at 08:57
Something tells me that the French will expand their role in Syria
mea_mark November 14th, 2015 at 09:10
It is time to remove Assad from power. He has totally mismanaged that country and given ISIL a home. The world is being destabilized because of Assad. The world needs to remove Assad from power as quickly as possible using whatever means are effective.
rg9rts November 14th, 2015 at 09:19
That won’t happen till Moscow gets their shellacking …
mea_mark November 14th, 2015 at 09:30
It may happen though, soon. Even Russia has said recently that Assad doesn’t have to remain in power. I think even Putin is getting tired of his mismanagement of Syria.
rg9rts November 14th, 2015 at 09:33
A bombing at the Bolshoi should do the trick.. there are a lot of muslims under the thumb of Moscow
fahvel November 14th, 2015 at 14:55
what the hell are you talking about – you almost sound fox newsy.
burqa November 15th, 2015 at 02:12
I think one factor may be that Putin doesn’t want the weakness of his own military exposed.
I read that a week after he sent all those aircraft to Syria that only a third were able to fly.
He has some good, but small special forces units but his regular army is poorly trained and has low morale.
Remember, this is the country that gave us the Potemkin Village.
fahvel November 14th, 2015 at 14:55
my my, another dim wit on the international stage.
rg9rts November 14th, 2015 at 17:20
Moscow has their won agenda and it has nothing to do with ISIS and YOU damn well know that…Putin is peeing in his pants that ISIS will get to the muslim populations under his thumb…and you know that too France is paying for decades of sins involving the north africans and didn’t you just celebrate the 10 anniversary of the immigrant uprising in France…and NOTHING has changed there either. still ghetto living conditions..high youth unemployment, hate by the locals …a real peoples paradise.. that is why one of the bombers was a French national …France is reaping what they have sown in neglect
fahvel November 14th, 2015 at 14:54
seems like the nations of the mid-east would like to remove Obama and Hollande and Merkel since they are running their countries like some kind of democracy –
MM, you say, most of the time , interesting and thoughtful things. Not this time.
burqa November 15th, 2015 at 02:05
That’s the problem. We need to have an adequate replacement.
We were happy to see Batista go in Cuba but then got Castro.
We installed a crook in Afghanistan who didn’t have the support of the people and the government in Iraq isn’t anything to write home about.
I have no answers to offer.
mea_mark November 15th, 2015 at 09:23
I’ve said this before; the world needs something like a temporary government that can go in and establish stability immediately while the local people set up their own new government. I think the world can do this through the UN. The biggest problem with regimes falling is the power vacuum that gets left afterward. Remove that problem with a temporary governmental structure provided by the world through the UN and there shouldn’t be the problems you usually see with radicals rushing in to fill the power vacuum.
burqa November 16th, 2015 at 22:07
One of the things Bill Clinton did was establish an African Union force in Africa where several governments contribute troops to a multinational force. The results they have achieved have not been anything to write home about.
There are a number of reasons for this. One, is not many countries have militaries that can operate beyond their borders. In most countries military spending is not a high priority.
Another reason is that in may countries the military is not regarded as we view ours. It is a job for those who can’t do anything else. They are poorly trained and equipped. They tend to be undisciplined and unmotivated. When they can be compelled to fight at all, they’ll drag their feet and stop at sundown.
I think you are spot on with seeing these power vacuums as providing an opportunity for extremists to arise and follow a wretched regime with one even worse..
mea_mark November 17th, 2015 at 09:04
UN should set it up, and do it right with highly trained people. It would especially need people with good empathy skills. When going to a foreign land you need to understand the people there, all the good ideas and good intentions will fail if you don’t understand the people you are trying to help.
robert November 14th, 2015 at 20:26
from what i read France has every right to. Question is Who will send ground troops ?
rg9rts November 15th, 2015 at 02:32
THAT is a european question
Suzanne McFly November 14th, 2015 at 11:06
Well one of the terrorists dropped his passport outside of the building before he entered and it was a Syrian passport. We have let Syria go too long without answering for these attacks and 9/11. They should be a target now. I am sure the right is ecstatic that we will be at war again.
mea_mark November 14th, 2015 at 11:10
We may be a participant but it won’t be ‘our’ war. We do not need to lead a ground invasion. We can support in other ways.
fahvel November 14th, 2015 at 14:53
dream.
Suzanne McFly November 14th, 2015 at 19:51
Definitely. We can supply drones and subs in the Mediterranean that have missiles we can use when we have evidence of where the terrorists are. Maybe Special Forces if needed. The main thing we need is a mole, that seems to be our weakest link.
burqa November 14th, 2015 at 22:45
I don’t know.
It may have been a mole that helped us target “Jihad John.”
Somehow we knew he was in a certain car in Raqqa, Syria.
I don’t know, we may have nailed him through signals intelligence of the sort Edward Snowden seem anxious to tell our enemies about.
Groups as vicious as the Islamic State tend to generate a lot of people who want to help out their enemies. They try to stamp them out, of course, but that just generates more informers.
I’m seeing this in research I’m doing right now on espionage carried out in occupied Europe during World War II. The Nazis were very efficient, but they could never stop it.
Suzanne McFly November 15th, 2015 at 13:07
We have some who are on the inside, I have no doubt about that. We need more though, we should of known about this huge attack in Paris before it occurred.
burqa November 16th, 2015 at 21:49
Yes indeed.
I re-read an article I saved for my terrorism research project. We followed the car Jihad John and another man was in. It parked near a business. Jihad John went in and came out a little while later. He got back in the car and that was when we put 2 Hellfire missiles up his ass.
Suzanne McFly November 17th, 2015 at 07:14
Nice, now lets find out how we can do that a few thousand times more and we will be leading in this fight.
burqa November 14th, 2015 at 22:38
I agree.
If the same thing was taking place in our hemisphere, we would be in the lead. Just think how ridiculous it would be for Russia or France to lead an invasion here to clean out bad guys in Central or South America.
For too long we have done what countries close to the Middle East should have been doing for many years.
Gina Bousquet November 14th, 2015 at 19:53
French intelligence is assuming the passports found by the terrorists remains, one Syrian another Egyptian are fake.
Suzanne McFly November 14th, 2015 at 20:18
Planted?
Gina Bousquet November 14th, 2015 at 20:31
I can’t figure out why they are working with that hypothesis… Because they’re nationals instead?
Suzanne McFly November 14th, 2015 at 20:43
It definitely is curious. I know I have heard very little about it on my news and I am sure there is a reason for that.
Gina Bousquet November 14th, 2015 at 20:49
It is. I imagine we’ll have access to a lot of information as the investigation continues. It’s bound to be fast with the collaboration of several intelligence services, so I hope.
Suzanne McFly November 14th, 2015 at 20:56
I hope so as well, I am also hoping for more arrests. There is no way these guys didn’t have help other than the ones who committed the actions. Others knew something.
Gina Bousquet November 14th, 2015 at 20:59
I suppose there’ll be lots of arrests, the sleeping cells, isn’t it how they call them? There may be several of these connected to the eight shooters.
burqa November 14th, 2015 at 22:50
Sleeper cells.
I agree with everything you’ve said.
Our intelligence has worked well with the French in the past. I am sure we are working with British and German intelligence on this, too. They are all very good. Their collection by human assets is better than ours, but our collection by electronic means is better than theirs. So we trade back and forth.
Gina Bousquet November 14th, 2015 at 22:59
That’s it, sleeper cells! I’m sure several intelligence services are together in the case, we’ll see results soon. :)
burqa November 15th, 2015 at 01:59
I don’t know how long it will be, but your idea of waiting for additional facts to come in is a good one.
Often something awful happens and we feel the need to come to conclusions immediately when frequently as time goes by, facts emerge that contradict our premature conclusions.
Gina Bousquet November 15th, 2015 at 11:58
Yes, we’ll have to be patient. They must be working against the clock.
Tommie November 14th, 2015 at 11:11
With the Bombing at the soccer game with German players present, that could have raised a few eyebrows in Germany also! If any of those players would have died in that attacked, oh boy! IMO!
fahvel November 14th, 2015 at 14:52
M. Le President is a very bright man but some feel he lacks the fortitude to deal with forces beyond his control.