[kehrlann]

To be honest, the shock and pain and angst and awe we feel here in Paris is so overwhelming that I feel too numb to realize that, Yes, of course, people will use this event to promote their own ideological agenda... It makes me sick, truly.

This should be a call for peace, not war.

[Shivetya]

You can call for peace all you want, those committing the atrocities will revel in it as it simply makes their work easier. Calls for peace instead of war only work when both sides are rational and one side is clearly not.

[Asbostos]

Really? Arguably ISIS would never have existed if the US didn't invade Iraq, destabilizing it and leaving a power vacuum. Also creating increased hatred towards the west in the process. I'd say using peace as a response to 9/11 could have saved us from the Paris attacks, as well as ISIS.

[jacquesm]

And to bring enough funds into the region to finance an army. The reports of what happened in Mosul are contradictory so I have no idea any more about what's true and what is not but the story goes that the Mosul bank heist financed the initial phase of IS. This is strongly advocated by some and just as strongly denied by others. There are also stories about planeloads of cash moved into Iraq.

[rorykoehler]

Pouring more fuel on a fire never put it out.