On a day reminiscent of America’s 9/11/2001, terrorists staged coordinated attacks against several Paris nightspots and crowd venues Friday evening, leaving 132 people dead, including at least 1 American, and 352 injured, many seriously. Gunmen fired AK-47s into crowds of cafe patrons, and slaughtered concert goers in a theater with guns and explosives. Police eventually freed over 1o0 hostages from the theater, where most of the fatalities occurred, and many others were wounded.
Suicide bombs went off outside a stadium where a soccer match was being played. Eight attackers were killed, 6 of them by suicide bombs. But authorities believed several other attackers escaped, and mounted a massive manhunt. By Saturday, ISIS was taking credit for the attacks, and France’s president was calling it an “act of war.”
I agree, this is war.
You can’t negotiate or compromise with mass murderers. ISIS, like the Nazis, must be defeated, their leaders killed or captured, their power destroyed, and their movement eliminated.
All across Europe ‘terror’ threat levels are being raised for maximum impact, with fear induced talking points lead by US and UK leadership promising to put an end to this “the poisonous ideology.”and also are behind today’s Paris attacks, these events may prove to be a turning point in how the world will respond to them. It’s unimaginable that Russia’s Putin, who has cast himself as a strong and aggressive leader of a reviving Russia, will let it pass. Two days before the 13th.
ISIS is an intolerable presence in the Middle East. If it turns out they were behind the bombing of a Russian airliner full of vacationing children,
If this was an attack on France by the Islamic State, it’s an act of war, and France can be expected to respond militarily. Other European countries have skin in the game, and are likely to join in. America, which already has lost citizens to ISIS brutality, should fight with them not as their friend and ally but to protect our own interests. We’re already bombing ISIS, and America is the logical next target.
As weary as Americans are after fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we may have to go back and fight ISIS in Syria and Iraq. We might even find ourselves making common cause with Russia, and also with Iran, which has an ISIS problem on their own soil.
In the 1930s, the world stood by while Hitler prepared to slaughter millions, hoping inaction would buy peace. ISIS has written its agenda across the Middle East in blood; it’s impossible to misinterpret their intentions. 
Like Hitler, their leader has told the world what his plans are.
Civilization can’t accommodate him, and shouldn’t try. The world can’t afford to make that mistake again.