Zam-Zam
Senator
This article appeared in February, 2015:
ISIS and Al Qaeda are increasingly mounting and calling for attacks on soft targets as a means of deterring Western assaults on their strongholds -- a strategy that is extending the reach of terrorism to hotels, cafés, supermarkets and malls where Europeans and Americans once felt safe.
ISIS, or Islamic State, and its sympathizers around the globe have claimed responsibility for several recent strikes on Western citizens, and the terrorist army's reach has extended deeper into the everyday lives of Westerners in their homelands or abroad. Last week's attack at a Tripoli hotel left one American and one French victim dead, and was the latest in a spate of planned and lone wolf attacks, including the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a siege at a Paris supermarket and another deadly hostage-taking at a cafe in Sydney.....
.....“The main goal of striking so-called soft targets is to intimidate and deter by projecting that economic interests, companies and eventually the public will pressure the (Obama) administration into forgoing its air campaigns in Iraq and Syria,” terrorism scholar Walid Phares, author of "The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad," told FoxNews.com
“While another goal is to produce video propaganda for recruitment, there is also the side dividend of demanding protection money from companies, telling them, ‘If you don’t want this to happen to you, here’s what it will cost.’
Complete text: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/0...-strategy-puts-anyone-and-everyone-in-danger/
Hitting so-called "soft" targets impresses me as a strategy of a coward. To deliberately attack unsuspecting civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, is something no person of honor would do or condone.
Thus, I for one must conclude that we are at war with an enemy with no honor, no dignity, and no sense of morality. Not even a twisted one.
As a Christian I believe everyone is worth saving, and I will pray for their hearts to be changed, and that they will turn from evil ways. At present, however, they are bent on only doing evil, and must be prevented from doing so by any means necessary. That will require courage and resolve. I pray that we are up to the task.
ISIS and Al Qaeda are increasingly mounting and calling for attacks on soft targets as a means of deterring Western assaults on their strongholds -- a strategy that is extending the reach of terrorism to hotels, cafés, supermarkets and malls where Europeans and Americans once felt safe.
ISIS, or Islamic State, and its sympathizers around the globe have claimed responsibility for several recent strikes on Western citizens, and the terrorist army's reach has extended deeper into the everyday lives of Westerners in their homelands or abroad. Last week's attack at a Tripoli hotel left one American and one French victim dead, and was the latest in a spate of planned and lone wolf attacks, including the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a siege at a Paris supermarket and another deadly hostage-taking at a cafe in Sydney.....
.....“The main goal of striking so-called soft targets is to intimidate and deter by projecting that economic interests, companies and eventually the public will pressure the (Obama) administration into forgoing its air campaigns in Iraq and Syria,” terrorism scholar Walid Phares, author of "The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad," told FoxNews.com
“While another goal is to produce video propaganda for recruitment, there is also the side dividend of demanding protection money from companies, telling them, ‘If you don’t want this to happen to you, here’s what it will cost.’
Complete text: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/0...-strategy-puts-anyone-and-everyone-in-danger/
Hitting so-called "soft" targets impresses me as a strategy of a coward. To deliberately attack unsuspecting civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, is something no person of honor would do or condone.
Thus, I for one must conclude that we are at war with an enemy with no honor, no dignity, and no sense of morality. Not even a twisted one.
As a Christian I believe everyone is worth saving, and I will pray for their hearts to be changed, and that they will turn from evil ways. At present, however, they are bent on only doing evil, and must be prevented from doing so by any means necessary. That will require courage and resolve. I pray that we are up to the task.
