Why ISIS Attacked Paris

Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by optimiz3 on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:35PM (#10570778)

Police and civil procedure only work in your own sovereign state where everyone plays by the same social contracts and has shared values (mostly).

Force necessary to achieve threat elimination and future deterrence work on sovereign adversaries who chose not to play by your rules.

Doesn't matter why they don't like you (rightly or wrongly), if they are a violent adversary you will suffer consequences if you do not stop them.

If the adversary is reasonable, diplomacy is always a preferable option, but not the most common denominator.

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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by allendoerfer on Sunday November 15, 2015 @03:09PM (#10570955)

And as long as we do not have a world police under the UN (which benefits are itself at least debatable), that's a fact we have to live with. Ignoring it, just makes things worse. You can use the military to sink some pirate ships or to stop Russia from going crazy, but you cannot win a war against guerilla. Every generation has their example war for this but we still keep joining them.

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Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris by optimiz3 on Sunday November 15, 2015 @04:00PM (#10571185)

There are many ways to win wars against guerillas, but just as guerilla attacks on civilians are incompatible with western values, most of the responses are similarly incompatible.

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