France mobilizes 10,000 troops
The Associated Press reports that France “deployed” ten thousand troops to the streets of France to search for other terrorist cells around the country to protect sensitive sites.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the search is urgent because “the threat is still present” after the attacks that began Wednesday with a massacre on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and ended when the three attackers were killed Friday in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.
Meanwhile, France’s defense minister said Monday the country is mobilizing 10,000 troops to protect the population. Jean-Yves Le Drian said the deployment will be fully in place by Tuesday, and will focus on the most sensitive locations.
Of course, they have 10,000 troops to spare because France was the first country to bail from the NATO mission in Afghanistan. I guess it’s easier to defend at home than to fight terrorists where they live.
France did send nine jets to the United Arab Emirates to launch attacks against ISIS in Iraq, and they promised to send some troops to help the Kurds, but, to my knowledge, those troops haven’t materialized, although some of their arms shipments to the Kurds have arrived.
Category: Terror War
Now I think I have a complete understanding of the word “militia” in our 2nd amendment. Obama doesn’t have a clue nor how to use it. I hear he gives a nice summit though.
#BringElaineRicciHomeRightFuckingNow
Well … at least the government of France is doing something.
Waiting until after there is an attack on home soil to “do something,” 14 YEARS after you’d been warned there was scum out there who would front attacks like this, ISN’T ‘doing something’ in my book.
And we all know what putting soldiers in the streets looks like, right? Cue the IED and bomb-vest crowd, right? This is an anatomy lesson of what happens in countries where the people are kept as defenseless sheep.
Yep. I semi-agree. It would be nice if the French Gubbment would “allow” their citizens to be armed to defend themselves. The citizens could do a MUCH better job then a mere 10k troops to cover the city and country. BUT — you nailed it, the “citizens” have been coddled for so long, they are now “serfs”, and cannot be counted on to take care of and defend themselves.
If they were serious they’d be sending them into the numerous no go zones in France to purge and deport all the scum that occupy those areas.
Only then will I actually believe France is serious about this isn’t of posturing like fools as though they are anything but paper tigers when it comes to Islamists in their country.