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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by spdustin on Friday November 13, 2015 @11:11PM (#10564415)
Last I heard, they were doing this to avenge their countrymen. In fact, we don't really know all the whos and the whys, we just know the whats. And what happened was a horrible thing that needs to be investigated, pored over, and responded to in a measured, rational way that doesn't become a nationstate-enabled revenge plot.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by rdudek on Saturday November 14, 2015 @12:16AM (#10564573)
When you avenge your countrymen, you avenge by killing the people at fault... not innocent folks enjoying a concert.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 14, 2015 @12:28AM (#10564602)
Unless you want to do actual damage. In terror attacks, deaths are only collateral, the real damage is the overreaction of the attacked nation. It's an effective thing if you blame a country.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by alfapla on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:59AM (#10565021)
> It's not intentional but I doubt ISIS sympathisers see the distinction.

I don't see the distinction either. If you drop a bomb and kill some people that you didn't intend to kill, you're still 100% responsible for those kills.

It is the saddest thing that we have found no better response to terrorism than limiting civil liberties and sending 18 year old boys with guns to foreign countries.

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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by Reef on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:23PM (#10567533)
What if all you got is an Ak47 and they have ships, tanks, air fighters and drones in the sky?

Please think what would happen if the tables were turned - your country is invaded by a much bigger nation with a technological advantage. Would you organize a peaceful protest for your enemy to ignore?

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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by threeseed on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:43AM (#10564990)
To be fair the US et al has killed many innocent civilians in the Middle East.

It's not intentional but I doubt ISIS sympathisers see the distinction.

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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by downandout on Friday November 13, 2015 @11:23PM (#10564450)
This is ISIS, at least that's the best guess of most of the experts being quoted in the media (and most rational observers of world news).
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