Agreed completely Jim. For some time now these people have said they are going to do things like this...random acts of terror.
So we sit idly by and wait for it to happen. Granted our air strikes supposedly killed 521 of them ( ISIS) but that is obviously not enough.That aint even a good start.
I have said for decades that you absolutely have to demonstrate that you are crazier, and more ruthless, than they are. It is the ONLY thing they understand.
What do the dictators in the ME know about their own people that we don't understand? The concept that the people will be either at your feet or at your throat. There is no middle ground. Why has it been essential for any of the regimes to survive they have had to be ruthless? Sadamm, Assad, Iran under the Shah or Ayatollahs kept order only through force. Ghadaffi same way. Look at Egypt, it took the military to restore order.
I love the Liberal Left when - especially the shrill women who claim it can all be fixed with " good, serious diplomacy and negotiations". Negotiating with ISIS or Al Qaeda or Hamas is like negotiating with The Terminator.
John Kerry - "It is time for you to obey International Law, reject violence, accept the democratic process, and live and let live."
The Terminator as (Hamas, ISIS Etc) "Fook you, azzhole!"
Negotiations over. The Terminator slaps Kerry and goes on killing. Only way to deal with The Terminator is to destroy it or else it keeps on coming.