Posted on 12/02/2015 9:13:07 AM PST by Citizen Zed
A French journalist held hostage by Islamic State for 10 months, has made an impassioned plea against bombing Syria, saying it was a trap that would only benefit Isis.
Nicolas Henin, previously held hostage by Mohammed Emwazi, implored the international community to seek a political solution. Engaging with Syrians, not bombing them, was the surest way to bring about the collapse of Isis, he said.
In a five-minute video said to have been recorded in the past few days in Paris and posted on YouTube by the Syria Campaign, Henin said: "Strikes on Isis are a trap. The winner of this war will not be the parties that have the newest, most expensive, most sophisticated weaponry, but the party that manages to have the people on its side."
In his message, apparently timed to coincide with Wednesday's UK parliament debate on joining Syria airstrikes, he said: "At the moment, with the bombings, we are more likely pushing the people into the hands of Isis. What we have to do, and this is really key, we have to engage the local people."
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I miss the George Bush mantra ... "You're with us or you're against us"
Not if you kill them too.
OK. Take out the people on its side.
If they had me as a hostage, I’d probably recite the script that they gave me. This appears to be evidence that the French/Russian offensive is working.
How do you “engage” with people who have stated their goals toward your ultimate destruction for 1400 years??
How do you engage people who want to kill you if you do not accept their crappy religion?
I meant to say, if you do not accept their Religion of Peace.
The French hostage is the bait in the “no bombing” trap. Bombs away I say.
I think they are mistakenly attributing John Kerry's latest speech to this guy?
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