I keep listening to the Media
and, in particular, the government officials, both current and previous (acting
as consultants) telling us that the attacks that took place in Paris Friday
evening were “highly sophisticated and coordinated attacks.
Who are they trying to fool?
These were no sophisticated
attacks. Word was sent (most likely via encrypted apps as we are told by the
same guys I mention above) to make some vests, buy some weapons, sneak into
Paris and pull off the 5, 6, or 7 events (depending on who you are listening to
at the time) at approximately, let’s say, maybe 9 PM Paris time.
Driving a car by a restaurant and
spraying the area with bullets, is not sophisticated. This happens multiple times
every night (and double those times on the weekend) in Chicago by your everyday
gang banger, probably on a whim or spur of the moment.
Arriving late to the soccer
stadium and blowing one’s self outside the venue while every target is inside
is not coordinated. In fact, the lack of sophistication in this part of the
plot is moronic.
The theatre attack does
exhibit some degree of planning, but this tactic has been demonstrated multiple
times over the last few years by less than talented people with a degree of schizophrenia
and other various afflictions.
I am not in the least trying
to downplay the cowardly actions of ISIS here at all. I deplore them. But, let’s
not fool ourselves nor be lead astray by the multiple talking heads that have
been round-the-clock feeding us every little tidbit of “news” they can dig up.
I want these guys caught and
punished just as much as the next guy, but let’s be real with ourselves. These
guys are just thugs feeding off a degree of dissatisfaction that makes it easy
to convert followers to their cause. Calling these attacks just adds to the
claim of these cowards and misfits. Let’s call them what they are and get them
put away, above or below ground.
