Tragic situation, but how do we stop this from happening again?
Originally Posted by johnniewalkerblack
In France you do what they did...Go in with guns blazing and sort the bodies out later. I'd just about guarantee you some French citizens were killed by friendly fire in that theater. When people realize that they are going to be killed no matter what some amazing things happen and they start to fight to keep from dying just like those passengers did on flight 93. It's not out of the realm of possibility that unarmed AND untrained citizens will rise up but they have to have the conviction to do it. Knowing that the special tactics units of the police department is willing to stage an Entebbe type attack on the hostage situation and sort the bodies out later will instill enough fear to spur action. Having an angry dude or two in the crowd with a handgun certainly isn't going to hurt the situation any. I suspect the citizens of one of the most civilized cities in the world have lost a little of their civility after this weekend and wise up a bit...or they won't and will risk suffering the same thing again.
Globally, you build a coalition to close the borders to Syria from the outside and let those fuckers take on ISIS on their own. 22 million remaining citizens in Syria. 30000 ISIS fighters. That's overwhelming odds even if the citizens only had sticks and stones to fight with. If they don't support ISIS let 'em prove it.
Problem is they don't want to fight it. If that's the case you're at least keeping them and their radicalism contained. They're using the world's sympathy to flee as refugees as a vehicle to expand their hatred westward. France just paid the price. At least they're hitting back and not pussy footing around about it.
Fuck letting any of them flee, not the women nor the children. I know it sounds heartless but when those fighting age males and many of the women and mothers have to stay there and watch those atrocities unfold it won't take long for them to put a stop to it. Taking the refugees is doing nothing but enabling the radicals who don't want the ones fleeing there anyway. That war will not be won by outsiders...ever. It's been going on the better part of two centuries. What makes us think anything has changed. The Crusades ended the last real Caliphate but it didn't stop them.
If you can't build the coalition and contain them then we build the wall here and vet every single person that wants in. Waiting list too long? Too bad...we aren't beheading people here that's why you want to be here. You want in quicker? Convince your country to join the coalition and go guard that Syrian border for a year. Maybe we can fast track you then.
It's all a political game anyway so none of that is going to happen. Can't convince folks to spend money on wars that don't exist. Without the military-industrial complex our economy goes in the shitter.