TYT: Escaped ISIS Hostage Tells Group's Plans And How To Beat Them

[WhoIsNumberNone]

There’s a powerful story of a French hostage who was held by ISIS for ten months. His Name is Nicolas Henin, and now he’s back in Europe. He laid out some of ISIS’s motivations and goals, and said that our current strategy of bombing plays right into their hands. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"A French journalist held hostage by Islamic State for 10 months, has made an impassioned plea against bombing Syria, saying it was a trap that would only benefit Isis.

Nicolas Hénin, previously held hostage by Mohammed Emwazi, implored the international community to seek a political solution. Engaging with Syrians, not bombing them, was the surest way to bring about the collapse of Isis, he said.

In a five-minute video said to have been recorded in the past few days in Paris and posted on YouTube by the Syria Campaign, Hénin said: “Strikes on Isis are a trap. The winner of this war will not be the parties that have the newest, most expensive, most sophisticated weaponry, but the party that manages to have the people on its side.”

In his message, apparently timed to coincide with Wednesday’s UK parliament debate on joining Syria airstrikes, he said: “At the moment, with the bombings, we are more likely pushing the people into the hands of Isis. What we have to do, and this is really key, we have to engage the local people.”*

Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/02/nicolas-henin-video-isis-syria-strikes

[Moostache]

1. Henin is 100% correct, and yet the world's response to Paris is utterly predictable.

We, collectively, in the so-called civilized West (and other industrialized nations), cannot seem to avoid capitulating to the mob-mentality, reptilian "fight-or-flight" reflexes or the shrieks of the cowardly politicians that stoke our anger and prey on our fears.

The craven nature of 21st Century politics and influence peddling instead of true leadership is endemic to the entire current Western-style civilization and governance, (and in all honesty, the 20th century Cold War thinking as well...the previous "boogeyman" to keep people afraid and cowed for easier control or either side of the political divide).

People everywhere seem to be willing to sacrifice freedom for "security"; and more frighteningly in the USA this election season are more apt to listen to the voice of would-be strongmen and wannabe-dictators, if they can just be assauged with the lie that being "tough" = "safe". Bombast and bluster once more serving as a "plan" as if the world never learned the lesson of W. Bush's disastrous policies and misadventures across the globe.

Cenk was spot on...being "tough" in this case is actually 180-degrees opposite of what is sold as "tough". Bombings - whether targeted or indiscriminate are not being tough in any sense of the word. It is a cowardly and vicious act to kill from a "safe distance" while refusing help, shelter or aid to those afflicted and suffering the most in the region.

This is the result we have earned for allowing the world to slip into partisan camps and "teams", where "facts" are argued and "science" is lying but "economics" is truth. The human cost of our current dystopian future - where forever war is acceptable, where profits are power and where suffering people are not refugees, but rather enemies to be locked out and shunned into a nether-existence of no home, no refuge and no hope.

The answer is the same as its always been - only love and patient understanding (the kind that takes strength and more importantly EFFORT beyond turning away and pretending the problem went away because you stop looking at it) can defeat hate. Unless we work together, and sacrifice for a greater common good and future, we as a species will fail. To date, we're not doing much to be optimistic about in the future...

[pansypoo53219]

2. same as dash raping women to make them convert. makes sense to me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Need to cut off Daesh oil sales going through Turkey and Saudi citizens funding Daesh. nt

[jamzrockz]

4. Yea, and brer rabbit also

doesn't want you to throw him into the briar patch.

Notice how they said nothing about ending their funding or cutting off their weapon supply route. Nothing whatsoever about closing the border with Turkey. If immediately lose when you start listening to these head cutters. Btw part of the man's suggestion is to open up a no fly zone where the rebels can operate. This means attacking the SAA air force who have been giving them headache.

I think the dangerous trap lies in listening to what ISIS are saying.