France at War with Terrorism - New War on Terror

BBC News: Reports " French PM Manuel Valls has said his country is at war with extremism and terrorism - but not with Muslims. "

Lets Get Real:

The Obama White House will like that the French as using Obama's method, at War with extremism and terrorism.   The problem is the major focus of terrorism of late has been from Islamic followers, these terrorists use Islam as a reason for the attacks on the innocent.   It was brave for the BBC to show the version of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo with the cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.   One can assume that there were talks at the hightes levels of the BBC as to show the cartoon,   In many respects the BBC had no choice, it could not allow terrorists to decide what is shown on the BBC.   This time the BBC did the right thing for a change.  

The Obama EGO and the Paris Attacks - New War on Terror

CNN - Politics: Reports " President Barack Obama's administration admitted it erred by failing to send a higher-ranking representative of the United States to the Paris unity march on Sunday. "

Lets Get Real:

It is simple, the Ego that is the Oval Office can not cope with attention not being on him, his constant need for press support means that ANY event that is not about Obama is of less importance.  One blog worries that when the ego leaves office in 2017 that he will have a mid life crisis, no press attention, no press kissing his backside, the President will need PR Rehab, coping with the real world after the Oval.   

UK General Election - Poll LEAD for Tories

Telegraph: Reports " General Election 2015: Tories grab six point lead over Labour in Lord Ashcroft poll..Despite the surge in Lord Ashcroft's poll that it would still leave the Conservatives two seats short of a majority "

Lets Get Real:

Before we start to celebrate lets recall this is one poll, the UK voter has months of constant campaign by the political parties,  by the end the typical voter will just want it over, for political geeks its fun, the present poll has the following results, " The results put the Tories on 34 per cent, up four points, ahead of Labour on 28 per cent, down three points, compared with the same time last month. "  One has to think that the Labour Party will get a better result that it got in 2010, thus this blog is still going with its original thought that the Labour Party will win the General Election with a narrow majority or with the support of the Lib Dems and other parties.    The structure of the election means that it takes more Torie voters to vote an MP that it does Labour.   Thus in pure math terms the Labour Party should win. 

IS attacks US Cyber Military Accounts - New War on Terror

Guardian: Reports " US Central Command Twitter account hacked to read 'I love you Isis'

Twitter avatar used by @CENTCOM was replaced with an image of a masked militant and the legends ‘CyberCaliphate’ and ‘I love you Isis’ "

Lets Get Real:

In modern terms the IS terrorists did some vandalism on US cyber accounts, that is not the problem, the problem is how the cyber terrorists managed it, a PR success for IS and a own goal for the Obama Administrtation and the Defence Department.   The Oval Office has to make sure that the terrorists can not attack other cyber foundations.   The North Korean attack on Sony showed how much companies have their daily routines on the cloud, what if the IS could attack a US nuclear plant, or other vital points in the US.    The US Congress should invest in building up US security, the next time the US might not be this lucky.   The problem was fixed, what if the next time it leads to deaths in the US or abroad. 

The Written Word Strikes Back - Charlie Hebdo's Return

BBC News: Reports " Charlie Hebdo's latest edition to depict Prophet Muhammad "

Lets Get Real:

The failure of the terrorists is shown by the fact that the Charlile Hebdo front cover will have an image that will send the terrorists nuts again.   The  right of freedom of speech is more important than any religion.  The Islamic faith has to get in to the 21 Century, its extreme views has to be rebuked, and those thta turn Islam in to an evil force have to be thrown out by their friends and neighbours.   If we do not  have free speech we have nothing, the humour of Charlie Hebdo might not be my kind of humour, that does not matter, it has a right in the Western secular World to write and poke fun at anything, that is the point of liberal democracy, 

Freedom of Speech and Religion - New War on Terror

Telegraph: Reports " Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday edition to include Prophet Mohammed cartoons..Wednesday's edition of Charlie Hebdo will 'naturally' contain cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, the magazine's lawyer has announced "

Lets Get Real:

On this issue this blog has to be honest, it is a christian and is not that keen on rebukes of the christian faith, BUT this blog to its last breath will support the right of the written word to be critical and to poke fun at any religion, Islam does not get out of jail card when it comes to critical review.  It can be argued that Islam need its own reformation, the terrorists use Islam as a cover, thus Islamic scholars have to look at Islam and see were it has been used to support terror and bring  a new view to it, Jewish/Christian centres do not on the whole produce mass murders, that is not something Islamic faith can say at the moment.   Thus time for Islam to reform, from within, and for the terrorists to lose their foundation. 

France on Alert - Paris Aftermath - New War on Terror

Guardian: Reports " France deploys thousands to guard vulnerable locations..Mobilisation of 10,000 troops comes on top of 5,000 police sent to protect Jewish sites "

Lets Get Real:

One has to assume that the French Intelligence services have information that there might be more terror cells out there, it seems odd to place ten thousands troops on the ground after the event.   As a wise US Defence Secretary once said, its the unknown's of the uknown's that are the most troubling.  One can assume the rest of Europe has had its secret services going back to check if they have missed something.   An attack on the written word should lead the Police to come down hard on those that are suspect terrorists and those that help terrorists, their enablers.  Western freedom of speech has to be defended no matter the cost.