Three vitally important lessons are immediately apparent in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks:
First, the Islamic State, or ISIS, is planning more attacks against Europe and also the United States. ISIS-affiliated websites threaten that Washington, London and Rome will be attacked next and that their preference is “to taste American blood.”
Second, ISIS is adept at waging asymmetric warfare. Their goal is to leverage their limited resources and get the “biggest bang for the buck” by spectacular acts of terror that will psychologically demoralize the civilized world. The victims of Paris are not only the 129 killed and 352 injured, but millions worldwide who were witnesses through mass media.
Third, the combined intelligence resources of the United States and Europe, and police and security forces even when on heightened alert as they were in Paris, cannot prevent every act of spectacular terrorism. ISIS, al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups will, sooner or later, achieve another surprise attack.
Therefore, one of the most important parts of U.S. counter-terrorism strategy must be to anticipate and protect our nation’s greatest vulnerabilities in order to defeat terrorism’s strategy of asymmetric warfare.
3 comments:
Maybe that's what we need to wake up this sick ass nation. terrible thing to say ,but given the facts today , the young people need to see how to survive.
They can also poison the fresh water supply....Oh wait, the chicken farms have already done that.
It would be so easy to do here.
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