A week and change after the Paris terrorist attacks and, to quote an old radio jingle “The Hits Just Keep On Coming!”
France and Russia have decided that Raqqa in Syria is a great place to start controlling ISIS. Air freight deliveries of attitude adjustment devices continues more or less around the clock. Various ISIS buildings, storage areas, oil refineries, office and training areas have been turned to rubble. Of course ISIS is not posting videos of the carnage that has ensued, for fear their associates, hangers-on and fanboys discover that having any affiliation with ISIS will ruin your day in a very permanent way.
The local cops, meaning the state police in Belgium and France have taken to showing up at various apartment doors with their form of concierge service wake-up calls: Door breach, two flash-bangs then a lot of gunfire. Hands up and surrendering means you get three rounds center of mass, while the assistant concierges on nearby rooftops paint noses with a red laser dot in eager anticipation of exercising the index finger of the right hand. Victims of terrorist attacks don’t get the benefit of a judicial process, so neither should terrorists.
We came up with an appropriate response in February of this year, just after the Charlie Hebdo outrage. The link is here but this is the short form: One helicopter flight a day. Slow to a hover at 1,000 feet over a marketplace, or some largish public square, when it’s busy. Tie a nicely worded note along the lines of: “We’re returning one of your soldiers. Fuck Off. Sincerely, The Rest of The World” to a captured ISIS member and toss him or her out the side door without a parachute.
Gravity will do what it does. Video the whole thing, including the very successful and squishy landing of the ISIS soldier. Post it on every ISIS media outlet you can find. Repeat the process several times a week, usually around lunch hour, when most people are out and about in Mosul or Raqqa. It’s inexpensive (Conventional iron bombs from bombers, cruise missiles and even drones are pricey per hour to operate), somewhat inelegant and not necessarily legal in a Geneva-convention-kinda-way.
But would be a very effective method of communications.
RoadDave 