My thoughts on the Paris Attacks

These Paris attacks are horrible. I'm still sort of avoiding really looking at what happened. But mostly I feel like "What is the point?" People will just say "terrorism" but what is the goal? How is ISIS stronger from this attack? I get it, their radical their crazy. Whatever reasons for what they did, I feel like it's a little lame.
I'm not usually the one to stand up on a table and defend the West or the United States or France or whatever.
But look, I assume that whatever air strikes we do that kill innocent people, I assume that it is by accident or at least a sort of collateral damage type of thing. I'm not saying that those airstrikes are right or justified. I'm just saying there is a difference between that and purposefully killing innocent people. Why not bomb a government building or something? Or attack soldiers. Like that guy in England that chopped up a British solider. Now that was wrong. But at least it is sort of more war like than this.

Why not deface a statue. Blow up structures. Take stuff, not life.

This feels like gang warfare on a global scale where everyone is involved. Like they can't hit the U.S. like this so they hut our friends in Paris because it's close and the city is big. He hit them they hit our friends and maybe sometimes us. But there is no planning for the future in it. It's planned out attacks but other than that what? It's like drive bys for the sake of drive bys. Killing for the sake of killing, and then dying in the process.

I mean what is the goal here? ISIS is the Islamic state. So they, in theory want to create a radically Islamic Country. We don't really know what's going on in their heads, but let's look at past radical States because hind sight is 20/20 right?

Let's talk about the Taiping. The Tai Ping wanted to create a heavenly kingdom based on radical Christian ideals. They pretty much took over all of Southern China and set up such a kingdom. They were probably even more radical than ISIS and even though they were Christian, Britain sided with the Qing Government because at least they could do business with them. ISIS, Taiping Heaven;y Kingdom... kind of the same thing.

So the first thing, one would think, is for ISIS to try and set up a country. They have a territory, sort of, but they don't have a country. Not really. They take down a Russian plane, of citizens, tourists. And then they kill a bunch of people in Paris. Again citizens. And this is supposed to help form their country or strengthen their country how?

This attack just tells everyone, Iran, Russia, America, France.... fuck these guys. The only security council member that might not want to get involved directly is China. But they want to build a train through this region. So stability is in their interest too, and these guys are not stable. They make no sense. It's like their not adults.

The closest thing to adults in the region seems to be Iran, and of course, Russian backed Syria.

Remember the last Presidential Election when Romney was like, "Let's find the rebels that most fit with our ideals and support them." Remember that? I mean if these guys wanted to set up a country they should be trying to play Russia and the West against each other. Ultimately it's like they are actually going to bring the rest of the world closer together because nobody can possibly say "Oh yeah ISIS isn't that bad." after this shit.

If you are a 20 something and you want to join a movement or do something for Allah and you have the energy and planning to do something on this scale and are even willing to die, why not try something like starting a business or invent something. I mean why not create a GOOGLE for Allah, or a Facebook for Allah? Maybe they have something similar in terms of networking, but why not just steal western ideas and recreate them for yourself the way China does with Baidu or Wechat? Why not make a drink like 5 hour energy, for Allah and do stuff the way Manoj Bhargava does. He's probably Hindu or maybe atheist, but I'm pretty sure that is what Allah's work looks like.

I mean if you are willing to die, then you can work really hard for a company that makes billions and with those billions you can have your Islamic empire and it can be really nice.

I feel like Radical Islam needs a history lesson in why the Islamic world was so powerful back in the day. It was technology and scientific innovation that made them a world power... and trade. Yeah there were wars with France and Spain. (in fact that's supposed to be how we got croissants right?) But the Islamic Empires of the past were religiously tolerant for their time. Trade was important to them. They made treaties with Western Powers. They attacked, but what they did made sense. And then if they conquered a place like Spain, they set up great institutions and built cool stuff.

What the hell does killing one hundred something (I see different numbers from different newspapers) innocent people have anything to do with setting up an Islamic State? All the Muslim professors that go over to join ISIS leave and talk about how whacked they are.

This kind of thing makes me lose my faith in humanity. I mean wars are stupid, greed is stupid.

But this type of killing tops it all.