The United States and its assorted allies in Europe have rejected analysts efforts to liken the new ISIS war to poking a hornets’ nest. Despite that, they’ve poked it, and it seems they are awaiting the sting.
Both the United States and EU nations involved in the war are now said to be bracing for the inevitable ISIS retaliation from their air war, with France saying they are taking “preventive” measures at public sites.
The US, by contrast, says that they focusing on trying to track the movement of people who were believed to have gone to Syria to fight and have since returned. They also added new ISIS-linked factions to the terrorism watchlist.
In both Iraq and Syria, the strikes are believed to have had little to no impact on ISIS’ control of territory. Nevertheless, officials vow to continue the attacks and, by extension, continue to await the blowback from them.
So bomb the hell out of them before they can come home causing another problem.
The punishment we deserve
My hand planting seedling pine trees for a living causes people to ask, “All those poison snakes in the woods, are you not afraid?”
So, what is with the American public that they so live in fear for their life? My thought is, guilt must be the driving anxiety, what with all our wars that have accomplished nothing but expansion and plunder, what with our knowing for a fact that we would not want an invading power to drop bombs on our homes and kids, surely we have a grave apprehension that a vengeance driven terrorist could at any moment give us the punishment we deserve.
Once Europe so foolishly allowed millions of alien, culturally unabsorbable Muslims into their midst, they became vulnerable to domestic terrorism from them. Inviting the world into your borders is very dangerous, unless you have a Swiss-style foreign policy. Even then it is a bad idea. Sweden has been the scene of numerous muslim riots.
If you set out to disturb a hornet's nest, you have to know in advance that you're probably going to get stung at least once. You can wear all the protective clothing you want, but it only takes one hornet getting through to ruin your day. And so it is with this pitiful wailing, "Ohhhhhh we attacked ISIS, what if they come attack us?" The sad fact is, you're either on board with the program or you're not; you can't just bomb someone and not expect a response. Personally, I'd much rather see the US get out of Dodge while we're still in one piece and leave the Middle East to sort out its own issues, and we can deal with whoever is left standing when the dust settles. I can pretty much guarantee you if Saudi Arabia or Qatar or Kuwait or whomever were being pressed by this ISIS bunch, they'd find a way to deal with them on their own.
What's with the trolls showing up now?
The headline has it back to front.
US and Europe caused fear amongst their own populations so that they could generate demand for preventative retaliation, allowing them to attack ISIS and assorted others in the fairly certain knowledge that the attacks would provoke actual retaliation and justify attacking ISIS et al (pun intended) even more.
In the offices of the MIC this activity is known as 'marketing and sales'.