{"id":24343,"date":"2014-09-19T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=24343"},"modified":"2014-09-19T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:29:01","slug":"france-launches-first-air-strikes-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/09\/france-launches-first-air-strikes-against-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"France Launches First Air Strikes Against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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France bombed an ISIS depot in northeast Iraq today. \u00a0President Hollande issued a statement saying there would be more raids in coming days.<\/p>\n

This makes France the first country other than the US to strike ISIS targets.<\/p>\n

I watched the Senate hearings about ISIS earlier this week. One point that came up during the hearings is that ISIS is in control of at least one small oil field and that the revenues from these wells are helping to fund the terrorists.<\/p>\n

I think that should make that oil field the primary targets for our bombers. We tend to treat oil producing sites as sacrosanct. I still remember the horror expressed about Saddam Hussein\u2019s troops setting fire to wells during the first Gulf War over 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

My feeling is that cutting off ISIS\u2019 funding is the first and most important thing we should do. Anything that helps fund them and their murderous actions should be demolished, or if it\u2019s a person, imprisoned for life.<\/p>\n

From BBC News Middle East<\/a>:<\/p>\n

French jets have carried out their first strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, the office of President Francois Hollande says.<\/p>\n

A statement said planes had attacked an IS depot in north-east Iraq, and there would be more raids in the coming days.<\/p>\n

The US has carried out more than 170 air strikes against the jihadist group in Iraq since mid-August.<\/p>\n

IS remains in control of dozens of cities and towns in Iraq and Syria, where it has declared a caliphate.<\/p>\n

France is the first of Washington\u2019s allies to strike at IS targets. The mission underscores the perhaps surprising military activism of the socialist French president.<\/p>\n

He has committed his country to military interventions in Mali, Central Africa and now Iraq. The French government has made it clear that its air strikes will be restricted to IS targets in Iraq and that there will be no French troops involved in fighting on the ground.<\/p>\n

This geographical restriction of French air operations underscores the complexity of President Obama\u2019s stated aim of degrading and disrupting IS activities in Syria too.<\/p>\n

That is a mission that US air power may have to take on alone and, despite the fact that Congress is moving to back a \u201ctrain and equip\u201d programme for the \u201cmoderate\u201d Syrian opposition, there are still many questions about how effectively the counter-IS struggle can be extended to Syrian territory as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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