You are not superior to the people who were cruel to you

[grok_mctanys]

The near-simultaneous attacks in Paris that killed nearly 130 people were an "act of war" organised by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, says France's President Francois Hollande.

Why?

Islamic State released a statement on Saturday saying "eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying assault rifles" had carried out the attacks on "

Comments

[mathcathy]

Improve intelligence, improve defence. Then ignore them. That would be better than goading them into more merciless, childish attacks on innocent people in our cities.

[grok_mctanys]

Goading them? Don't you think that that's an awfully dismissive way of characterising our 12-year campaign of bombing their schools, hospitals, weddings and funerals? And of course when we do it, it's entirely merciful, mature, and against only the guilty people in their cities, towns and villages, because we're the Good Guys™.

[mathcathy]

I was talking about Hollande's statement today only.

I have no words to describe the rest.

[grok_mctanys]

Ah, sorry.

I'd read that entirely as him trying to rally Us, rather than trying to goad Them, but I can see how it makes sense to read it that way too.