The president is actually the only one responding to Isis threats the way he should: by not elevating the terror group to the status its members craveJudging by the range of irrational responses to the Paris attacks,you’d believe we occupy learned absolutely nothing from the last 14 years of constant war and destruction in the Middle East. Worse, the president is one of the few people being somewhat rational about the whole situation – and he is receiving nothing but criticism for it.horror is now the number-one commodity for politicians and federal agencies alike: the CIA and FBI are full CYA mode, or scaring the American public by claiming the next attack is inevitable and blaming technology for their own failures. The State Department issued the vaguest possible “worldwide” travel alert possible on Monday,saying Americans should be on edge about the entire globe, with “terrorist groups continue[ing] to contrivance terrorist attacks in multiple regions”.
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Source: theguardian.com