The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
Europe continues to defeat Daesh on the home front where it matters.
David Cameron is visiting President Hollande today and calling for a joint military effort. With NATO out of Afghanistan except for the USA there is now a feeling they want to go back to the Middle East. David Cameron might want to ask how successful NATO was in Afghanistan before is fights the second front of the war in Syria and Iraq.
November 23, 2015
By Loveday Morris
...“Later this week, (click here) I will set out in parliament our comprehensive strategy for tackling ISIL,” Cameron said, using another acronym for the militant jihadist group.
The British leader will have to convince British lawmakers, who last year voted to approve air strikes against the group in Iraq but not in Syria. Cameron suffered a major defeat in 2013 when he sought parliamentary approval to launch strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad....
President Hollande is visiting the USA and Russia beginning tomorrow. He has been involved with resolving conflict with The West and Russia before. He and Prime Minister Merkel of Germany were involved in Minsk 2 and has an ongoing relationship with Russia regarding Ukraine.
There is unrest in Germany over it's refugee policy. That is the same type of activity that spawned organization of Daesh in France by it's own citizens along with those that commuted between Syria and France and ultimately brought violence to Paris.
22 November 2015
The square (click here) in front of Dresden's famous opera house - the Semperoper - was full. Three day after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the regular Monday event saw 10,000 people come to protest the German government's refugee policies. That's a few more thousand that the week before, but only half as many as during PEGIDA's high point in January in the wake of the "Charlie Hebdo" attacks.
Supporters of the "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West" movement - known as PEGIDA - feel validated by the terrorist attacks and have connected them to the many refugees in Germany. They're calling for a halt to Germany's welcoming refugee policy. And they're also calling for a new government....
There is a real war for Europe and it exists within it's own sovereign borders. Before marching off to Syria which will bring angry men out of the woodwork within sovereign borders, they might want to reflect on the security of those borders before venturing into a Syrian landscape were the war has yet proven to be nothing more than a Ba'athists paradise.
