Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Our Choice: Kill or Be Killed. Which One is it Going to Be?

From Julia Hartley-Brewer, at Telegraph UK, "Islamic State cannot be defeated with kindness. It's time to kill or be killed":
Contrary to popular belief, peace, love and understanding don’t stand a chance.


The tributes to the dead in the Paris terror attacks have been deeply moving. The candlelight vigils have been eerily beautiful. And the images from around the world of public buildings lit up in the tricoleur have been a vivid reminder that, regardless of our national or religious differences, we are all one humanity.

All of these niceties are heart-warming and reassuring at a time when the world seems a very uncertain and frightening place.

Indeed, there has been much written and spoken since the bloody horrors of Friday night about how, in the fight against evil, it is peace, love and understanding that will win. How, in the battle against men with guns, grenades and suicide vests, it is the simple courage of people standing together that will ultimately triumph.

Those platitudes might sound great, they feel very nice to say and they are certainly reassuring to hear and read.

After all, we were all raised on fairy tales that told us, again and again, that in the end it is good that will overcome evil every time.

There is just one crucial problem: none of it is true.

Good doesn’t triumph over evil. And, contrary to popular belief, peace, love and understanding don’t stand much of a chance in the face of a barrage of bullets or a suicide bomber pressing the trigger at a football stadium or in a crowded concert hall.

Indeed, the triumph of good over evil has rarely happened in human history without the helpful backing of rather a lot of guns, tanks and bombs. The good guys only win when their guns, tanks and bombs are bigger and better than those of the bad guys.

Yes, there have been plenty of peaceful protests for civil rights, democracy and even against the might of the Soviet Union during the East European so-called “velvet revolutions”. But, by and large, those successes have been won only when the men with guns chose of their own free will, in the face of the combined might of the people, to put their guns down...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

François Hollande Proposes New Security Measures to Fight Islamic State (VIDEO)

At the Wall Street Journal, "France’s President Proposes Measures to Fight Islamic State":

PARIS—French President François Hollande on Monday vowed to adopt hard-line security powers in an attempt to reassure a nation traumatized by the Paris attacks that left at least 129 people dead.

The president said he wants Parliament to update and potentially expand his powers under France’s state-of-emergency statute while extending the current state of emergency for three months.

The Socialist leader also signaled a shift in foreign policy by proposing a single alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama to combat Islamic State, the militant group Mr. Hollande says carried out the massacre.

“France is at war with jihadist terrorism that threatens the whole world,” Mr. Hollande said after observing a minute of silence with senators and lawmakers.

The French leader called for a United Nations Security Council meeting and assistance from other European countries provided under European Union treaties, as he seeks to repel further terror attacks.

Mr. Hollande’s first-ever address to both houses of Parliament charted a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s security policies at home and abroad that could require changes to the constitution.

His martial language at the Château de Versailles—once home to the French monarchy—indicated Mr. Hollande is preparing the country for potentially draconian policies, such as expelling foreigners considered a threat and stripping French nationality from dual-nationals involved in terror activities.

The president’s 45-minute speech was received with a standing ovation from all political sides and a rendition of the national anthem, “La Marseillaise.” But civil-liberty advocates quickly raised concern over his intentions.

“If you give the president powers that have been reserved practically for civil war, that is extremely serious,” said Adrienne Charmet, campaign director for French digital-rights group la Quadrature du Net.

Created during the Algerian war in 1955, the state of emergency gives authorities far-reaching powers, including banning travel in certain areas, shutting shops and concert halls.

The interior minister can ban people from leaving their homes, and the state can take “all measures” to control the press and radio. Searches can be undertaken without a judge’s approval, and those who refuse to comply can be fined and held in custody for as long as two months.

To account for technological advances since the 1950s, Mr. Hollande asked lawmakers to update the state-of-emergency law on confining individuals to their homes and search seizure. Faced with a war on terror, constitutional laws relating to wars on foreign soil should be updated so the president can take exceptional measures without resorting to a state of emergency, he said.

Before Mr. Hollande’s address, political rivals slammed the president for failing to prevent Friday’s attack...
Well, at least Holland goes to the parliament to push legislators to pass sweeping reforms. Obama just issues an executive order and to hell with it.

But keep reading.

Parisians Should Be Revolted by Eiffel Tower Peace Symbol

And they should "revile those who created and promoted it."

Says Mark Steyn, "Cool Civilizational Death Wish Goes Viral!":
Just in case our enemies needed another reason to despise us, today the inactivist group Somnolent Tilty-Headed Wankers for Peace launched an exciting new graphic: the same old clapped-out hippie peace symbol but incorporating the Eiffel Tower (right)! Isn't that a cool, stylish way of showing how saddy-saddy-sadcakes you are about all those corpses in the streets of Paris? It's already gone viral! And that's all that matters, isn't it?

Our enemies use social media to distribute snuff videos as a means of recruitment. We use it to confirm to them how passive and enervated we are: What was it the last time blood ran in the streets of Paris? Oh, yeah, a pencil - for all those dead cartoonists. But, given that blood in the streets of Paris looks like becoming a regular event, it helps to have something of general application. What about, ooh, a tricolor with a blue tear at the end? No, better yet: a peace symbol with a croissant in the middle. No, wait...

What's that? All you are saying is give peace a chance? But what, in fact, are the chances of peace for Paris and France? What are the odds?

Oh, sorry. All they were saying is give peace a chance. And, having said it, they've gone back to sleep until the next atrocity requires another stupid hashtag or useless avatar.

Parisians should be revolted by this third-rate gimmick, and revile those who created and promoted it.
[UPDATE! Saddy-sad pianist plays "Imagine" outside the Bataclan theatre:

Imagine there's no countries...

Keep this up and there won't be.]
It's French artist Jean Jullien who created the idiotic peace symbol. I tweeted a far better version:

Terror Suspect Remains at Large as Belgian Police Press Manhunt — #ParisAttacks (VIDEO)

At the Wall Street Journal, "Belgian Police Push Manhunt as French Authorities Crack Down on Extremists":

Belgian police scoured a Brussels neighborhood for a suspect believed to have been critical to the attacks that rocked Paris and said they were holding two people in connection with the planning, as authorities in Paris announced raids of dozens of homes in a new crackdown on radical Islamists.

Authorities in Belgium and France are also investigating whether another man—a Belgian named Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who is suspected of being the mastermind behind a foiled Belgian terrorist plot in January—was involved in Friday’s onslaught, officials familiar with the probe said.

Officials said Mr. Abaaoud, who was raised in Brussels, returned to Europe from Syria to carry out the failed Belgian plot from earlier this year, which had been aimed at killing police officers, officials say. He is then believed to have escaped to Syria after police shot and killed two other men suspected of being involved in the plot in the eastern Belgian town of Verviers.

“It’s one of the things we are examining, but it hasn’t been confirmed,” a Belgian official said of Mr. Abaaoud’s possible involvement in Friday’s attacks in Paris.

Officials are urgently scrambling to tighten the net on extremists, both in Europe and abroad. French jets struck Islamic State positions near the militant group’s stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, and authorities carried out raids in several cities across France amid fears that attackers might strike again in the country or elsewhere on the continent.

French President François Hollande proposed extending France’s state of national emergency for three months and called for international co-operation from Russia and the U.S. as he pledged to step up air strikes against terrorist bastions.

“They fight us because France is a country of freedom,” he said. “Our democracy has beaten far greater adversaries.”

The rapidly moving investigation in both Belgium and France is revealing a picture of a network of terrorists, many of them born in Europe, who were trained in Syria or elsewhere in the Middle East, and who managed to evade authorities even as they crossed borders.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which wreaked havoc at a sports arena, a concert hall and through the streets of Paris, killing at least 129 people, but it hasn’t provided specific information...
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Europe's Terrorist War at Home

From Ayaan Hirsi Ali, at WSJ, "Learn from Israel, end the open-borders policy, and dig in for a long war of ideas against Islamists":

French President François Hollande declared the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris an “act of war” by Islamic State, and he was right, if belated, in recognizing that the jihadists have been at war with the West for years. Islamic State, or ISIS, is vowing more attacks in Europe, and so Europe itself—not just France—must get on a war footing, uniting to do whatever it takes militarily to destroy ISIS and its so-called caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Not “contain,” not “degrade”—destroy, period.

But even if ISIS is completely destroyed, Islamic extremism itself will not go away. If anything, the destruction of ISIS would increase the religious fervor of those within Europe who long for a caliphate.

European leaders must make some major political decisions, and perhaps France can lead the way. A shift in mentality is needed to avoid more terror attacks on an even bigger scale and the resulting civil strife. Islamic extremists will never succeed in turning Europe into a Muslim continent. What they may well do is provoke a civil war so that parts of Europe end up looking like the Balkans in the early 1990s.

Here are three steps that European leaders could take to eradicate the cancer of Islamic extremism from their midst...
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Deals on Office Products (BUMPED)

At Amazon, Shop Black Friday Office Deals.

Plus, from Daniel Byman, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know.

William McCants, The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State.

Erick Stakelbeck, ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam.

Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.

Europe's Dangerous Refugees

At Der Spiegel, "Paris Attacks: How Great Are the Terror Dangers Posed by Refugees?":
It has now been confirmed that one of the Paris suicide bombers reached Europe disguised as a refugee. Security officials had long felt that such a scenario was unlikely. How big is the risk?

It hasn't taken long for the French authorities to begin learning details as to who was behind Friday night's terrorist attacks in Paris. Several of perpetrators, officials learned over the weekend, are from France, with two having most recently lived in Brussels and two more residing just outside of the French capital. Investigators believe that a 27-year-old Belgian man named Abdelhamid A. was the coordinator of the attacks, which cost the lives of at least 132 people at multiple sites in Paris on Friday evening.

One piece of news regarding the attackers, however, has received a particularly large amount of attention. Not far from the corpse of one of the suicide bombers, a Syrian passport was found. On Monday, French authorities confirmed that the attacker traveled with the passport into the European Union via Greece as a refugee.

The discovery would seem to confirm the fears of many in Germany and Europe that terrorists are among the hundreds of thousands of refugees currently streaming into Europe.

According to a report on Greek radio, a second attacker may also be suspected of having traveled to northern Europe via Turkey and Greece. Thus far, however, there hasn't been an official statement given regarding the second case.

At the moment, only the following is known: The finger prints of the attacker who blew himself up in front of the Stade de France stadium on Friday evening match those taken of the man as he traveled into Greece carrying a Syrian passport. The man, identified on the passport as Ahmad Almohammad, arrived in Greece at the beginning of October via the island of Leros, authorities say. Police officials say that the young man was registered there along with a group of 69 refugees. As part of the registration procedure, his fingerprints were taken, officials said.

On Oct. 7, the 25-year-old, who called himself Ahmad Almohammad, entered Serbia from Macedonia and continued on to Croatia and Austria. The Serbian Interior Ministry issued a statement saying that he was not armed when he traveled through Serbia. According to French justice officials, however, the passport that he was carrying was falsified and had been prepared in Turkey. The confirmation that an attacker traveled into the EU as a refugee confirms a scenario that security officials had long thought possible, but unlikely. After all, Islamic State hardly needs to send assailants into Europe as refugees in order to carry out terrorist attacks on the Continent. Hundreds of Islamists from Germany, along with thousands from other European countries are currently in IS-held regions of Syria and Iraq of their own free will. Because they possess citizenships of European countries, they can return whenever they like. French officials said on Monday that at least three of the suspected attackers had spent time in Syria since the end of 2013 and subsequently returned to France.

In addition, there are large numbers of extremists who grew up in Europe and are prepared to take part in violent attacks here. The attacks in Paris at the beginning of this year on the editorial offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and on the Jewish supermarket Hyper Casher demonstrate as much. So too does the subsequent attack in Copenhagen, which saw a jihadist who had grown up in Denmark shoot two people to death.

Intended to Mislead?

But there remain a number of open questions. The true identity of the man who traveled into Greece as a refugee with the falsified passport isn't yet known. There are many possibilities. One is that he wasn't a Syrian at all. He may have been an Islamist known to European security officials and who had joined the Islamic State in Syria. For such an Islamist, it may seem easier to enter Europe as a refugee under an assumed identity -- because Syrians who arrive in Europe are almost guaranteed of being granted refugee status.

But there are other questions as well. Why, for example, was the attacker carrying a passport at all? It looks as though Islamic State wanted the passport to be found, which would play into the hands of Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks, in two ways. First, it would increase fears in the West due to the large numbers of refugees currently arriving, and it would further divide European society. Secondly, it would discredit the refugees themselves. For Islamic State, refugees are traitors for fleeing the country rather than joining Islamic State for the establishment of a Caliphate.

The passport also raises questions when it comes to the coordination of the terror attacks as well. Most of the attackers were French, that much has become clear. As such, it wasn't a fake refugee who brought terror to Europe. The chief coordinator is thought to be a Belgian man. It is unclear how an attack could have been prepared and organized with an attacker who had only been in Europe for a few weeks. But here too, the available information is sketchy. On Monday, the French government said that the attacks appear to have been planned in Syria...
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CNN just reported that six of the eight attackers traveled to Syria, so I'll be looking for more information on that. Stay tuned.

American Colleges Are Reaping the Progressive Whirlwind

A roundup on campus fascism, from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit.

ADDED: From William Jacobson, at Legal Insurrection, "Anti-Israel students target UT-Austin Israeli Studies prof after disrupting his speech."

French Authorities Name Belgian National Abdelhamid Abaaoud as Mastermind of #ParisAttacks

At the Guardian UK, "Abdelhamid Abaaoud named as alleged mastermind of Paris terror attacks."

More at WaPo, "Raids spread across France and Belgium amid manhunt for suspects."



Reports: Salah Abdeslam Arrested in Belgium #ParisAttacks

At London's Daily Mail, "Fugitive 'blood brother' 'is arrested in Belgium after fleeing building with his hands in air as police fired tear gas'."

It's going to be a big news day.

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After the Fall of the Roman Empire, #ParisAttacks Should Be Warning to the West

From Niall Ferguson, at the Times of London, "Like the Roman empire, Europe has let its defences crumble."

And ungated, at the Australian, "Paris attacks: fall of Rome should be a warning to the West":
I am not going to repeat what you have already read or heard. I am not going to say that what happened in Paris on Friday night was unprecedented horror, for it was not. I am not going to say that the world stands with France, for it is a hollow phrase. Nor am I going to applaud Francois Hollande’s pledge of “pitiless” vengeance, for I do not believe it. I am, instead, going to tell you that this is exactly how civilisations fall.

Here is how Edward Gibbon described the Goths’ sack of Rome in August 410AD: “ ... In the hour of savage licence, when every ­passion was inflamed, and every restraint was removed ... a cruel slaughter was made of the ­Romans; and … the streets of the city were filled with dead bodies ... Whenever the Barbarians were provoked by opposition, they ­extended the promiscuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless …”

Now, does that not describe the scenes we witnessed in Paris on Friday night?
Keep reading.

And beware complacency.

France's President Lied, Frenchmen Died

At FrontPage Magazine, "It’s time to tell the truth about the migrant crisis."

Cal State Long Beach Vigil for Nohemi Gonzalez (VIDEO)

Via Ruptly:



Earlier, "Cal State Long Beach Student Nohemi Gonzalez Killed in #ParisAttacks (VIDEO)."

Keep it Moving, No Islamists to See Here

The left's response to the Paris attacks has been unreal, even more than usual.

Here's just one snapshot, from Matt Labash, at the Weekly Standard:
As a committed, long-standing Twitter detractor, I’ve exhaustively bashed the social networking site for all imaginable crimes, and even unimaginable ones.  But through the gift of hindsight, I admit giving Twitter short-shrift in one department: it tends to work like they say old age does, concentrating your quirks, tics and psychopathologies, making you yourself, only more so.  This is generally not a good thing. Unless you like watching people foul the bed. (And I do!)

Last night, during one of the most widespread, bloodiest terror attacks in European history, it was Dean Obeidallah’s turn. For those unfamiliar with the social-justice comic (a self-cancelling proposition), Daily Beast columnist, and American-Muslim host of XM’s The Dean Obeidallah Show, there, I’ve just familiarized you. His overriding mission, however, is spreading the gospel of the Religion of Peace ®, to combat those who unfairly stereotype Islam as being the Religion of Pieces.

 “I want to be your Muslim friend,” Obeidallah’s written, “so if you don’t have one, follow me on Twitter.”

Since I’m not on Twitter, I couldn’t make new friends with Obeidallah. But as the death toll in Paris kept climbing, I could read his feed. Which was not unlike watching a mental breakdown unspool in real time. Obeidallah started innocuously enough, keeping the victims in his prayers...
Keep reading (tweets are embedded at the piece).

A real meltdown. Pathetic.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Wake Up, Mr. President

At WSJ:
President Obama on Sunday promised to “redouble” U.S. efforts against Islamic State, which shows he isn’t deaf to the political impact of Friday’s murderous assault in Paris. But why should anyone believe him? After years of dismissing the rising terror threat, Mr. Obama needs an epiphany if he doesn’t want to be remembered as the President who allowed radical Islam to spread and prosper.

“It is an act of war that was waged by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, by Daesh [the Arab name for Islamic State], against France,” said French President François Hollande on Saturday, in words that met the moment. Contrast that to Mr. Obama, who on Friday morning told ABC News that “we have contained” Islamic State. Some are saying Mr. Obama is guilty of bad timing, but the truth is worse: The remark is what he believes, or at least what he has wanted Americans to believe.

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The Paris massacre should mark the end of that self-deception. Jimmy Carter shed his illusions about the Soviet Union after its invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and Mr. Obama needs a comparable rendezvous with reality. This will be harder for Mr. Obama, a man of great ideological vanity, but perhaps the prospect of defeat for his party in 2016 will force him to see the world more clearly.

For seven years Mr. Obama has used the unpopularity of the Iraq war as a shield for his retreat from antiterror leadership and the Middle East. His periodic drone strikes and his most notable security success, the Osama bin Laden raid, obscured the jihadist danger growing in the wake of America’s departure from Iraq and abdication in Syria.

Mr. Obama also deposed Moammar Gadhafi in Libya but then did almost nothing to help Libyans restore order. Americans saw a glimpse of the gathering storm in the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, but the White House blamed it on an obscure video.

Now Americans can see clearly the spreading infection from Islamic State and a resurgent al Qaeda. It isn’t merely a regional threat, as Mr. Obama once claimed. Its offshoots have spread into North Africa across the Middle East to Afghanistan. The civil war in Syria has spawned a refugee crisis that has descended on Europe and may have provided cover for at least one of the Paris jihadists.

Islamic State also isn’t the “jayvee” terror team, as Mr. Obama once claimed...
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And flashback, "The World Will Blame President Obama If Iraq Falls."

Pre-Dawn Counterterrorism Raids Launched Across France — #ParisAttacks #Toulouse

Telegraph UK is reporting, "Paris attacks: Pre-dawn anti-terror raids launched across country • French jets unleash 'massive' airstrike on Isil in Raqqa • Europe-wide manhunt for suspect on run."

And at the Guardian UK, "Paris attacks: anti-terrorism raids across France as hunt for Salah Abdeslam continues – live":
What we know about the anti-terrorism raids

Information is still patchy but here is what we have gathered from French media reports:

French police are hunting Salah Abdeslam and others believed to have been involved in orchestrating the attacks on Paris on Friday.
It is not certain that the raids in the early hours of Monday morning are directly linked to the attacks on the capital.

Raids are reported to have taken place in Toulouse, Grenoble, Jeumont (on the French-Belgian border), and the Paris suburb of Bobigny.

Reports say at least three people have been arrested in Toulouse, and weapons possibly seized, with further arrests in Grenoble.
In Jeumont, streets were closed off around a building that was being searched. Searches were also carried out in homes in Bobigny.

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Anti-terrorism raids and the hunt for suspects

French police continue to hunt for Salah Abdeslam – believed to be one of three brothers involved in Friday night’s attack, who is on the run – and others thought to have been involved in orchestrating the attacks on Paris on Friday.

Overnight raids have taken place in Toulouse, Grenoble, Jeumont (on the French-Belgian border), and the Paris suburb of Bobigny. It is not certain that the raids in the early hours of Monday morning were directly linked to the attacks, but they were carried out under the national state of emergency declared by president François Hollande.

Several arrests have been reported across the locations, with buildings searched. Weapons were reportedly seized in Toulouse...
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My colleague Kim Willsher in Paris has more on the overnight raids:

French police and gendarmes carried out a series of raids across the country overnight. From early reports it appears most were part of a general “preventative” anti-terrorist swoop as part of the country’s state of emergency and not directly linked to the search for the perpetrators of the Paris attacks.

The decree made by the French council of ministers at an emergency meeting after the Paris attacks, relating to the first paragraph of the 1955 law on a “state of emergency”, which gives the authorities extraordinary powers to order home searches “day or night”.

In Toulouse, French media reported a “preventative operation” in and around the area that was home to Mohamed Merah, known as the “ride-by killer” who gunned down several soldiers, then attacked children at a Jewish school, murdering a a total of seven people over several days before dying in a police shoot-out in 2012.

At least three people have been taken into police custody. Reports say these were “administrative searches” on properties as part of a general anti-terrorist operation and not part of the Paris attack investigation. Police seized “illegal substances” including cannabis, and one weapon.

In Grenoble and around, Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper is reporting that units of gendarmes carried out an anti-terrorist operation at around 15 sites during which “more than half a dozen people were arrested and arms seized”. The paper said the operation, which lasted an hour, was part of a national swoop.

Another local newspaper in the north of France in the Pas de Calais region is reporting a raid at the town of Jeumont near the border with Belgium. Reports suggest gendarmes in “around 50 vans” swooped on the town, but it is not known whether the raid is directly linked to the Paris attacks, or being carried out as part of a general operation in France.

There was another overnight operation by gendarmes at Bobigny a suburb of Paris. Again details are sketchy...
More, "Paris attacks: French police launch raids as military strikes Isis in Syria."

Disagreement Over Whether France Could Have Prevented #ParisAttacks

The blame game.

See Politico, "The blame game begins in France":
PARIS — French commentators and experts weighed in Sunday with critical assessments of the government’s handling of the fight against terror in recent months, focusing on shortcomings in its understanding of the threat leading up to Friday’s attacks.

While some argued that French authorities had underestimated the terrorist threat to France by failing to respond to it as an all-out war, others claimed the attacks may have been caused by the country’s get-tough policies at home and abroad.

“It was a war. A real war. We knew it, but in the end, we preferred to turn a blind eye,” wrote Alexis Brézet, managing editor of the right-leaning Figaro newspaper, in a column on the front page of a special edition on the terror attacks.

Vincent Desportes, a retired army general who headed one of France’s must prestigious military schools, said in an interview with L’Obs that the country was facing a war “which targets France, our values, our lifestyle, our liberties.”

He said, “Unfortunately, France did not want to recognize this state of war.”

Brézet, Desportes and other commentators focused on what they called numerous shortcomings in France’s handling of the anti-terror fight after the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in January.

Brézet referred to “numerous alerts,” but noted that several counter-terrorism measures had not been implemented, including surveillance of radical imams. He also decried the lack of surveillance of people who had traveled to Syria and returned to France, as well as the “short-sighted diplomacy” which “pretends — rightly so — to fight Daesh in Syria, but refuses stubbornly to support its main adversary, Russia, because it supports [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad’s regime.”

Desportes called on France to rethink its priorities in the fight against terrorism and improve its military strategy.

“We will certainly need to withdraw from some external operations,” said Delportes. “We need to redeploy forces on French soil, and better use them on the ground.”As long as Western countries cling to political correctness, afraid to hurt the feelings of Muslims, then folks can forget about defeating Islamism. It's all of a package. You gotta go all in, or forget about it.

While Europe Slept

From Bruce Bawer, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within.

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Obama Releases 5 Yemeni Guantánamo Inmates to United Arab Emirates

See?

Nothing's going to change. Nothing.

At AoSHQ, "Obama Orders Five Gitmo Detainees Released to United Arab Emirates."

Also at WaPo, "Pentagon transfers 5 Yemenis being held at Guantanamo Bay to UAE."

New York Daily News Posts Graphic Photo of #ParisAttacks on Front Page

Lots of folks were outraged, apparently, but I think they did the right thing.

From yesterday morning, at Twitchy, "‘L’HORREUR’: Tomorrow’s New York Daily News cover shows the true horror of Paris [Warning: graphic photo]."