Credit: Mauro Biani (http://maurobiani.it/)/Il Manifesto. All rights reserved.At the end of last year, as politicians and pundits cheered on coalition airstrikes in Syria, I wrote this:
“The war on ISIS has already been lost. As regional instability escalates predictably as a direct consequence of the US-UK led non-strategy, ISIS will become stronger, and reactionary terrorist violence against western targets will proliferate – in turn fuelling reactionary and militant responses from western foreign policy establishments.”
Less than a year later, 129 people have been confirmed dead, and 352 injured, from terrorist attacks in Paris.
