There should be only one question on the lips of French
citizens today and that is: are we really going to allow Islamic terrorists to
continue to kill us without hindrance?
If, as I suppose, the answer
is ‘no’, then we should expect decisive action against ISIS by France and the
other states which are similarly at threat. If nothing else is
plain, it must surely be beyond doubt that passive defence, which depends on
security measures and intelligence-gathering, is not working, and neither is
the pin-prick aerial assault on the Islamic state, itself, by various NATO and
other forces.
