Our government can't use groups like ISIS one day and bemoan attacks on Westerners the next [View all]
The real scandal is our bipartisan policy of using groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, and any other religious extremists who dislike the same governments our government does.
ISIS didn't seem to move from our friends to enemies list until they started to bedevil Iraq as well as Syria.
Washington didn't seem to mind the religious extremist in Libya when they were after Khadaffi, but only only noticed they're bad guys when they killed our diplomats.
The same is true of our allies in Afghanistan. Our troops are rightly horrified that some of them practice child sex slavery, but our government doesn't care as long as they are on our side.
We should certainly find and punish (however you want to interpret that) whoever did this Paris attack, but the long term response should be to stop using these guys and telling our Gulf allies like the Saudis to stop funding, training, and directing them as well.
I won't hold my breath for that happening no matter which of the two parties enter the White House.
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