MGOH we have been in this fight since 1970, it is only now coming home and beginning to hit us, they refuse to take on our military because they know they will come off decidedly second best, we have protected by and large certain aspects of our lives, so they now wait watch and attack what are "soft" targets.

Plain fact now is that ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh or whatever you want to call them under no circumstances can be seen to "win". That means we attack them and destroy them wherever they are - I would not condemn France now if it flattened Raqqa. I would force them out into the desert and obliterate them, there is no negotiation with them, there is no reasoning with them, they want you converted to Islam, living under Sharia Law, or dead. There is no compromise, there is no middle ground, that is the reality.