Only minutes after the horrible massacres in Paris on November 13, 2015 French President Francois Hollande made it plain. The attacks in Paris by ISIS and its supporters were an act of war waged by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, the Islamic State ISIS or Daesh, against France. In contrast, President Barack Obama in characteristic fashion said he did not want “to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible” for the massacres. Now that ISIS in a video has threatened the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world it is time to accept the responsibility of ISIS and to realize that the terrorism in Paris manifested one aspect of Islamist warfare against Western civilization and its symbolic places. The response must be both a physical confrontation with the terrorist group and a forceful campaign against Islamist ideology. In this the U.S. must join hands with Western European countries and above all with Russia, a key player. The presence of Russian forces...(Read Full Article)