With all political, free speech and moral issues stripped aside, what are the learning points from the Paris terror attacks?
It’s a pretty straightforward question, isn’t it?
First, let’s look at this analysis from Stratfor Global Intelligence:
Such attacks will continue in the West as long as jihadism survives as an ideology. They will be limited in scope but intended to cause terrorist theater that spills well beyond the limits of the attack to create vicarious victims. Because of this continuing threat, citizens should practice appropriate situational awareness and be prepared to properly respond to danger.
via The Michael Bane Blog: The New Tactical Reality.
Go click on the link, read, read again and process.
I think that this:
“7) THE SHOOTERS ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE THEIR OWN LIVES…OR GIVE UP”
sums up the biggest difference between the thrill killers, like America is used to, and the threat jihadis pose.
And after going and reading that, I remember why I don’t go the Bane’s blog anymore, it takes 10 or more minutes for my eyes to stop hurting. Not joking. Actual eye watering pain.
+1 on Joe… THAT is a key point! And hostages, they will kill them…
And every time I start to think that maybe I’m just being paranoid, I then realize, maybe not.