The Free World has to remember these criminals use a country's infrastructure against the government and people; that includes the privacy and rights within the country and international community. This is extremely unfortunate because it turns the country in a direction most citizens believe is dangerous, but, to ignore the reality before all of us is not prudent and can be very dangerous. There is a reason there is media.
Hind sight is always better. In 2013, the USA and it's international allies were faced with violence in Syria by the militants. The picture in Syria was not clear and I doubt it is clear yet today. I remind the Syrian President is still in place. Syria is not a vacuum without leadership. The West also was able to assist Syria in relinquishing it's chemical weapons and stores; that was no small accomplishment.
The invasion into Iraq began the destabilizing of governments in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The weakest countries fell like dominoes, but, to reenter a war into the region was unwise since the invasion is what caused the opportunity in the first place.
The idea the First World invading the Third World is the answer to national security is grossly misconceived and quite frankly desperate in nature. Any call for the USA to lead is asking the country's military to be the global police. Those wishes are foreign political dogma and not realistic, both logistically and financially. If France or any other European ally wants to make a wish list including the USA defending their countries is opening up a defense for those that carried out the atrocities in the first place.
The war into Iraq was illegal and immoral by every measure including the instability witnessed today. I remind the United Nations was on the ground and not finding any reason for invasion. An invasion into the region would not end the killing, it would increase it, especially the deaths of the most innocent, and the dangers to other nations. Civilian deaths in Iraq range from tens of thousands into hundreds of thousands. Not only that, but, every Muslim killed becomes a reason to escalate violence and not end it. Other nations have to develop their own defenses.
The USA's political environment endangers it's own democracy. I would hardly call that a dependable ally. Europe has NATO available for military needs, I suggest that be reviewed. The very existence of NATO validates the commitment to Europe allies. Defending Europe is more important than fueling a greater war in the Middle East. Kindly consider that reality. If NATO were to widely move into the Middle East where does that leave the defense of NATO? It takes large amounts of people to invade and stabilize any country. If nothing else, the weak invasion of Iraq proves that. It is far easier to defend a stable country than to break one down and rebuild it from the street up. The entire invasion into Iraq was far to desperate to be necessary. An invasion into Syria would be the same.
January 16, 2015
By Melissa Eddy and Allen Cowell
Hind sight is always better. In 2013, the USA and it's international allies were faced with violence in Syria by the militants. The picture in Syria was not clear and I doubt it is clear yet today. I remind the Syrian President is still in place. Syria is not a vacuum without leadership. The West also was able to assist Syria in relinquishing it's chemical weapons and stores; that was no small accomplishment.
The invasion into Iraq began the destabilizing of governments in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The weakest countries fell like dominoes, but, to reenter a war into the region was unwise since the invasion is what caused the opportunity in the first place.
The idea the First World invading the Third World is the answer to national security is grossly misconceived and quite frankly desperate in nature. Any call for the USA to lead is asking the country's military to be the global police. Those wishes are foreign political dogma and not realistic, both logistically and financially. If France or any other European ally wants to make a wish list including the USA defending their countries is opening up a defense for those that carried out the atrocities in the first place.
The war into Iraq was illegal and immoral by every measure including the instability witnessed today. I remind the United Nations was on the ground and not finding any reason for invasion. An invasion into the region would not end the killing, it would increase it, especially the deaths of the most innocent, and the dangers to other nations. Civilian deaths in Iraq range from tens of thousands into hundreds of thousands. Not only that, but, every Muslim killed becomes a reason to escalate violence and not end it. Other nations have to develop their own defenses.
The USA's political environment endangers it's own democracy. I would hardly call that a dependable ally. Europe has NATO available for military needs, I suggest that be reviewed. The very existence of NATO validates the commitment to Europe allies. Defending Europe is more important than fueling a greater war in the Middle East. Kindly consider that reality. If NATO were to widely move into the Middle East where does that leave the defense of NATO? It takes large amounts of people to invade and stabilize any country. If nothing else, the weak invasion of Iraq proves that. It is far easier to defend a stable country than to break one down and rebuild it from the street up. The entire invasion into Iraq was far to desperate to be necessary. An invasion into Syria would be the same.
January 16, 2015
By Melissa Eddy and Allen Cowell
BERLIN — As European investigators (click here) radicals, the Belgian police said on Friday that 13 people had
been detained in Belgium and two in France after a shootout in which
two men believed to be militants were killed.
Eric
Van Der Sypt, a Belgian federal magistrate, also said the authorities
had conducted searches at a dozen locations where the police had found
four weapons normally used by the military, including AK-47 assault
rifles, The Associated Press reported.
The
magistrate was speaking hours after a gun battle in the eastern town of
Verviers as officials in Paris and Berlin also announced a series of
arrests and interrogations....
...In Germany, the police arrested two Turkish men suspected of having links to an organization supporting the militant Islamic State and other radical groups fighting in Syria.
...In Germany, the police arrested two Turkish men suspected of having links to an organization supporting the militant Islamic State and other radical groups fighting in Syria.
In a statement, prosecutors in Berlin said they had no indication that the men had immediate plans to stage an attack.
It
was not immediately clear whether the arrests in Berlin were linked to
other investigations in Europe. But the sudden flurry of activity seemed
to reflect heightened alarm after last week’s assaults in Paris, where, on Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and then with President François Holland...
...In
Germany, prosecutors said that 250 officers had raided 11 apartments
after months of tracking a group that was said to support the Islamic
State, also known as ISIS
or ISIL, with money and the recruitment of combatants. Both of the
arrested men were Turkish citizens, and they are formally suspected of
planning a serious attack in Syria and of money laundering.
One
of the detained men, identified only as Ismet D., 41, in keeping with
German privacy laws, is suspected of serving as an “emir,” or leader, of
a radical Islamist group that was not identified by name. “He is
suspected of radicalizing this extremist group through ‘Islam lessons’
he held, and encouraging participation in jihad against ‘unbelievers’ in
the war in Syria,” prosecutors said.
The
other man, identified only as Ermin F., 43, is suspected of providing
financial support to members of the group and of helping them prepare
for travel to Syria.
As
the waves of alarm spread, the only Orthodox Jewish school in the
Netherlands was closed on Friday, Reuters reported, even though there
was no specific threat against it.
In Belgium, Jewish schools in Antwerp and Brussels were also closed temporarily, Reuters said....
