Will ISIS attack America next?

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I have to say, I am kinda scared we’ll see another big attack Paris style somewhere in America. I know our security here is very high, but… still. ISIS did say after the Paris attacks, “American blood is the best, and we will taste it soon.” They also said Paris was just the start. I might be being paranoid but… I am sorta freak out. What are your feelings?
 
Attacks in the US will most likely be the “lone wolf” type attacks carried out by individuals with little to no actual material support from ISIS.
 
Syrian refugees are here. Pay close attention. There is also a map of where they are being dropped off. If there ever was a time to seal the border…this is it.
 
Julianna said:
Syrian refugees are here. Pay close attention. There is also a map of where they are being dropped off. If there ever was a time to seal the border…this is it.
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That gives me anxiety. The borders really need to shut. America needs to send some troops into Syria with other western countrys because this is getting to out of hand. I don’t want another Iraq as much as the next guy, but ISIS is now really starting to become out of hand. ISIS is not just a terrorist group anymore. It Isin’t like Al-Quadea; a bunch of loosley connected cells in some different areas of the world. This group has a central area under its control, and if we can get it back we can weaken them significantly. The attacks in Paris need to stop being treated as little terrorist attacks, and more like and invasion attempt by another country. And soon… ISIS will attempt that.
 
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Even though there is not a link to a news article I will leave this thread open as long as it stays on topic an stays charitable. Don’t use it as a vehicle to advocate the persecution of anyone.
 
I hope it doesn’t happen. But we have individuals who are willing to try anything, that it almost seems like it will happen.
 
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That gives me anxiety. The borders really need to shut. America needs to send some troops into Syria with other western countrys because this is getting to out of hand. I don’t want another Iraq as much as the next guy, but ISIS is now really starting to become out of hand. ISIS is not just a terrorist group anymore. It Isin’t like Al-Quadea; a bunch of loosley connected cells in some different areas of the world. This group has a central area under its control, and if we can get it back we can weaken them significantly. The attacks in Paris need to stop being treated as little terrorist attacks, and more like and invasion attempt by another country. And soon… ISIS will attempt that.
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I do not believe it is a cause for war at all. I do not believe in persecution of anyone. As with nations around the world, we can prevent war and potential violence by paying attention to what is going on around us.
 
America does not have banlieues yet. America does have innner cities where resentments and anti-establishment counter cultures can grow and thrive and churn out their own forms of violence, but that violence is not a safe place where ISIS can find a haven.
The banlieues of Paris are a necessary part of the equation for an intifada. For the most part, Muslims that do enter America, so far, have been much more interested in the American dream than the Islamist dream that inspires in ISIS. Americans are more accepting of foreigners, and by and large foreigners want to become American.
This certainly is not to say that the immigrant countries of North America will be immune to ISIS and intifada. Canada has already had an attack against its parliament. In general though, without a supportive community in which large cells of terrorists can come together and form in the semi-open, the type of organized attacks that are more typical of Europe are not as easy to organize in North America. At present, it is just as likely that a young Muslim man approached in a mosque in America to form a violent cell will turn that cell in, rather than either hide it, or cooperate with it.
Les banlieues of Paris are likely a large part of the European equation that are not a part of the American scene.
 
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I do not believe it is a cause for war at all. I do not believe in persecution of anyone. As with nations around the world, we can prevent war and potential violence by paying attention to what is going on around us.
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Perhaps.
 
The Pentagon has released this:

newschannel10.com/story/28603897/isis-releases-kill-list-seven-texas-cities-included

Texas: Abilene, New Braunfels, San Antonio, Wyle, Fort Hood, Bedford, Killeen

Indiana: Michigan City, Bolivar

Michigan: Dearborn Heights, Lake Orion

Connecticut: Barkhamsted, Manchester

Nevada: Reno

Georgia: Griffin

Maryland: Upper Marlboro, Warrensburg, Lexington Park

Arizona: Phoenix

Louisiana: Shreveport, Bossier City

South Carolina: Daniel Island, Charleston

North Carolina: Fayetteville, New Bern

Virginia: Burke, Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Springfield, Norfolk, Chesapeake

Colorado: Colorado Springs

California: Hanford, Solvang, San Ardo, Monterrey, Newberry Park, Carlsbad

New Mexico: Farmington

North Dakota: Minot

South Dakota: Rapid City

Florida: Merritt Island, Palm Coast, Saint John, Middleburg, Saint Augustine

Washington: Colton, Cheney, Seattle, Spokane, Anacortes

Nebraska: Bellevue

Illinois: Orland Park

Rhode Island: Newport

Idaho: Bonners Ferry

They all have Air Force bases
 
There are a couple factors to take into account when thinking about near-term ISIS attacks in the U.S.

First, if ISIS tacticians have any sense at all, they will know that events in Paris will have driven higher security conditions here. If they take that into account, and if they have any actual attacks planned, they will put them off until we have become complacent again.

Second, they have to know that American society is not like French society. In many parts of the U.S. an ISIS shooting attack of the type carried out in Paris would very likely be met with armed resistance on the part of the intended targets. That may limit their choice of targets to areas where gun possession by law-abiding civilians is tightly restricted (New York, Washington, Chicago) or to smaller so-called gun-free zones (like our own parish church).
 
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Does anyone feel that World War 3 is in the midst?
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Not yet. If anything, this would be more like the Gulf War of 1991 than a World War with evenly matched state actors in a multi-polar world.

I agree with the analysis that any modern army could defeat ISIS. It wouldn’t be as easy as before since they are more entrenched, but the only advantage ISIS has is the rest of the world is letting them sit there aside from some airstrikes which obviously haven’t done anything.

Of course, if the rest of civilization wants to sit on its hands, eventually, ISIS could have a cross-continental Caliphate, and their fundamental approach to the family would give them a decisive advantage over reeling, aging First World nations.
 
Fighting people who are not afraid to die, in fact wish to die for their cause is hard to wrap our American minds around. It will have to be fought differently than all the other wars.
 
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Fighting people who are not afraid to die, in fact wish to die for their cause is hard to wrap our American minds around. It will have to be fought differently than all the other wars.
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We’ve dealt with the enemy who wants to die for a cause before – WWII, Germany, and Japan come to mind. And we’ve certainly encountered guerrilla warfare (unfortunately, not always successfully). That’s not to say that ISIS doesn’t present unique challenges. But perhaps they’re not as unique as one might initially think.
 
Some of the reaction from these attacks from some folks on-line is really starting to bother me. The whole point to terrorism is to get people to be afraid, so the best thing anyone can do is be smart and live out their lives.

Some have basically pointed out that its very hard to stop the lone gunman from doing some kind of damage who is willing to die for his/her cause.

Fair enough, but even if people stayed at home shivering under their beds it still wouldn’t promise 100% safety.

What folks don’t seem to understand is that ISIS basically is operating like a country. They have revenue, they have a media arm and they have an army. It’s this infrastructure and organization that backs up their ideology and gives people the confidence to launch an attack like that, and thus, makes it more likely.

If ISIS lost its footing in Syria and Iraq, their influence would wane considerably. It would be much harder for them to coordinate and plan attacks and it would destroy a lot of momentum for radicals.
 
I don’t want to misspeak what I think I once read but even World War II ended up turning on the killing of civilians, Dresden, Hiroshima and so on.

They even say, the bombing of civilians in World War II was caused accidentally when a German pilot got his coordinates mixed up and bombed London.

Unfortunately, war may be a very ruthless enterprise to be so concerned with collateral damage iow killing civilians.

I am concerned but this the dilemma, people can say we haven’t won overall, wars or most wars since World War II and since then, civilians have not been targetted, I don’t want to exagerrate this however, obviously, WWII had a lot of military battles, but it’s just something I read once.
 
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