Brussels and Bombs of Convenience: Only Most Unpleasant Facts Add Up! | New Eastern Outlook
The trouble with this argument is that there are several countries
which have experienced years of ongoing terrorism which has claimed
hundreds of thousands of lives. The aforementioned Northern Ireland
conflict lasted over twenty-five years, and the historic campaigns of
the Red Brigades in Italy, ETA in Spain and irregular forces in many
parts of South America and South East Asia have made terrorism a daily
reality for many people since long before ISIS was invented. You would
therefore think that the terrorists involved in these conflicts, with
all their experience and tacit support from many members of the
communities, would be able to do exactly what ISIS is doing but on a
larger scale. Anything ISIS knows, militant groups which have stood the
test of time must know too. But none of these groups have ever conducted
co-ordinated attacks on such a scale.
