Posted on 11/14/2015 6:40:10 PM PST by 11th_VA
Yup.
Some how I’m reminded of the recent news article about
the drunk woman who thought she could pet the tiger.
It is the SAME THING.
Islam doesn’t consider it’s victims as innocent.
We owe them the same, to do otherwise means our
extinction.
Hipsters? How would you like to be referred as a “hipster” in death?
Who knew that Blazing Saddles would apply?
/johnny
Of course the psychopaths went after the young adults. They’re the ones most likely to have kids.
The muzzies are very aware of the demographic aspects of their long term jihad.
They attacked targets that symbolize what France is all about. An effective attack on the U.S. requires a strike on the Pentagon and on two massive office buildings where tens of thousands of people go to work every day. An effective attack on France involves entertainment venues. That says everything you need to know about the two countries.
The Spanish communists called themselves Republicans, and there was even an “Abraham Lincoln Brigade” fighting on their side. BIZARRE!!!;)
This is a form of guerrilla theater, underlined in blood. But it is still theater. The actual casualties are less than a mosquito bite on an elephant's ass in a city so vast.
The psychological effect is what the terrorists wanted .... if everyone keeps his head and French eclat remains unhurt, the terrorists will have failed.
Any material hurt to France or Paris is purely illusory. For that, the terrorists would need nuclear weapons, or worse.
From what we know now about OBL's safe house in Abbottabad and his increasingly exposed relationship with the Pak ISI, it isn't hard to guess what the source of Al Q'aeda's prospective nuclear shipping containers would have been.
And never forget that it was the Chinese "dropped knife" strategy that started all this ... arming all America's worst enemies with nuclear weapons. We haven't yet informed the Chinese what their price will be, of a nuclear attack on the United States, and so this policy will continue to go forward until we do.
Nope. The Spanish Republicans were Nazis led by Franco.
Err, sorry...I got that backwards. The Nationalists were the Nazis...and they were Republican generals who rebelled against the Republican (Communistic) government.
We're talking about target selection, and how far symbolism ranks over the more prosaic aims of finding the optimal target based on casualty rates and the like. I quite agree with you that a soft target is a criterion. And although I think the author's case is intriguing, I suspect that the symbology here is likely to focus more on Paris as an avatar of Western culture than any subcultural component such as he details. Still, it's an interesting case.
The terrorists at the theater did proclaim that the purpose was punishment for France's involvement in Syria, and it may be that their planners felt that an attack on this demographic was likely to bear fruit in French politics, i.e. that the young, affluent, comfortable class might sway their leadership away from involvement given that they now were targeted. There are a couple of problems with this point of view, though. For one thing, tourist areas definitely were targeted - the Metro station, for example, with its exit to the Louvre, is not the demesne of the young and hip, but of the foreign tourist. But the employment of half the attackers on a concert auditorium appears to me to buttress the author's case.
We may never know. For the overall strategy of infiltrating European countries with a young, male, military-age class, this is probably a setback. You don't want to spotlight that until it's a done deal. For the objective of French disengagement in Syria, it may be better suited. How effective that will turn out will be a function of the terrorist command's assessment of Hollande and his administration's willingness to fight, and whether the latter is more or less likely to disengage after the attacks. That we will learn in the coming days but I'm not getting a lot of accommodationist vibes from the existing administration, faced with an obvious threat in Le Pen. Could be they feel their jobs are on the line. Back a rat into a corner and sometimes he comes out fighting because he doesn't have any other choice. Just a thought.
Mel Brooks...
We used to say "a conservative is a liberal who had been mugged." Sadly the mellinials don't have what it takes to make this mature progression. They will be lib for the rest of their nasty short brutish lives.
They are the beheadable millenials.
soooo,
What are you French going to do?
Plant trees so the mooselimbs can march in the shade as they enter Paris?
Or are you going to grow a set and take up the fight against islam?
We here in America will have to wait til our current mooselimb president is gone.
France and the rest of the EU hung up thier “gun free zones” signs
Twitter away canary. Breathe the fresh air of the collectivist/totalitarian mind.
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