I do love me some drama!

The horrific attacks in Paris last week has the “Red Web” burning up the internet…..calls for the most severe of actions must be instituted right away…..and again like every attack that has been featured on the evening news the talk is for a whole host of knee-jerk reactions……

The “Red Web” is calling Obama ineffective and he may well be so but he is called that with every issue that is featured….I personally agree that he is ineffective but for a whole host of reasons and if you are a follower of IST then you already know where I stand on his foreign policy…….but one of the tactics that is being passed around is a better way to contain ISIS and its effectiveness….but is that the best idea?

When President Obama said, just one day before the Paris terror attacks, that ISIS had been “contained,” he wasn’t wrong. On Vox, Zack Beauchamp lays out a solid case explaining that the terror group’s “march across Syria and Iraq … has in fact been stalled and in many places even turned back.” The problem is, as the Paris attacks devastatingly prove, this isn’t necessarily cause for immediate celebration. “As ISIS weakens as a state by losing territory, it may actually become more dangerous as a terrorist organization,” Beauchamp writes. Until now, ISIS was mainly focused on attacking targets in the Middle East. But some experts think Paris marks the start of the terror group staging more “dramatic attacks outside its territory—perhaps in part to compensate for its territorial losses.”

ISIS recruits a lot of foreigners, including Westerners, and its “narrative of victory” is a big reason why, Beauchamp writes. “It sells itself as the prophesied Islamic caliphate: that its victories are inevitable and divinely inspired. If it’s losing territory, then it needs to sell this narrative through other means. That means claiming ‘victory’ over the West by hitting it with terrorist attacks.” And then, of course, there’s the possibility that ISIS believes that such attacks are a fitting “punishment” for Western attacks against ISIS. All of this is a scary prospect, as the experts to whom Beauchamp spoke make clear, because ISIS has millions of dollars at its disposal. “We’re not talking about al-Qaeda hiding out in Pakistan,” warns one. Click for the full piece.

Okay before you decide that I am some sort of….whatever insult you have in your bag of insults…..keep in mind that this is NOT my opinion….I am just passing it along to my readers as an informational piece…..so please save the attacks for when you think I deserve them…..deal?

After the attacks last week France has instituted a state of emergency…..closed its borders (sort of)…..there is an opinion that that may not be the best of ideas…..

Source: Why States of Emergency and Extreme Security Measures Won’t Stop ISIS | Alternet

Again…….informational…..just presenting an alternative point of view….if you cannot handle that then you are probably in the wrong place.