As long as Western countries continue to supply arms and financial support to rebel groups and shitty regimes (Saudi Arabia, etc.) we will have to deal with terrorism on this scale. You can replace Islamic terrorism with Hindu, or atheist, or anything you'd like, it's supporting human scum that breeds this. If only we focused money on actually helping people through education and other humanitarian avenues, instead of trying to free people through violence and overthrowing governments.

If humanity survives another 1000 years history will look back on this time as the continuation of the events surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire. All of this Middle Eastern bullshit right now is directly tied to the fall of the Eastern Empire (Ottoman was just a renaming) and the stupidity of the British and French just making up borders without actually planning for considerations of local tribes and ethnic groups. Money was the concern, and the Empire started its final fall due to debts it accrued to due the involvement of British and French bankers.


That said, I hope ISIS is thoroughly obliterated, but make no mistake, another group will take its place and it will not end until the methods of dealing with the poverty and inequality in the region change.

I find it depressing that French citizens are now seeing red, seeking revenge for this event. Hopefully cooler heads prevail and France doesn't make the same mistakes the US did after 9/11 in regards to sacrificing unnecessarily (their freedoms) for short sighted revenge. As someone who has been to both Afghanistan and Iraq, I can assure you that retaliation is not going to really go anywhere. Bombing areas where everyone on the ground is already attacking each other across multiple different groups will only encourage them to focus on the external threat of westerners instead of their own religious civil war bullshit.