Even Though Tony Blair Admits Iraq War Led To Rise Of ISIS, Apologizes For "Mistakes".EUROPE NOV. 14, 2015 Paris Attacks Were an ‘Act of War’ by ISIS, Hollande Says

If, there’s one lesson "THE WESTERN WORLD"simply refuses to learn when it comes to Mid-East foreign policy; it’s that forcibly removing autocrats invariably leads to chaos.

Not to say that promoting democratic principles and encouraging government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” isn't somehow a noble pursuit at the theoretical level. It’s simply to say that real political change must be completely organic and cannot be brought about via military intervention or by covert attempts to support popular uprisings.

Importantly, this principle applies in countries where the seeds for change have already been sown.

That is, you must let the process play out on its own, even if the ball is already rolling.

The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 1990 – 17 January 1991) for operations leading to the build-up of troops and defence of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

An American-led intervention in Iraq started on 15 June 2014, when President Obama ordered US forces dispatched to the region, in response to offensives in Iraq conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. American troops went, at the invitation of the Iraqi Government, to assess Iraqi forces and the threat posed by ISIL.

In early August 2014, ISIL attacked Kurdish-held territory in northern Iraq, and captured three towns in northern Iraq, close to the autonomous region Iraqi Kurdistan. Consequently, the United States of the Americas started supplying the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces with weapons on 5 August. On 7 August, the United States of the Americas also started humanitarian aid air droppings of food, water, and medicine for the civilians fleeing ISIL in the Sinjar Mountains.

On the next day, 8 August, the United States of the Americas began airstrikes against ISIL positions in Iraq. Since then, nine countries, allied with the US in some coalition, have also executed airstrikes on ISIL in Iraq, more or less in concert with ground warfare of Kurdish and/or Iraqi government forces against ISIL.

 There have also been sporadic clashes between ISIL fighters, and US and Canadian troops, several thousand of whom are acting in advisory and combat roles with Iraqi and Kurdish forces

By April 2015, ISIL had lost 25–30% of the maximum territory they had gained in Iraq in December 2014, to Iraqi and American-led Coalition forces, leaving them in possession of around 15,000 square miles of IraqIn August 2014, the US began a campaign of airstrikes on ISIL targets in Iraq, and, according to American website Business Insider, Iran also began air strikes against ISIL. Since then, nine countries, allied with the US in some coalition, have also executed airstrikes on ISIL in Iraq; nine countries, including the US, have conducted airstrikes on ISIL in Syria.

EUROPE NOV. 14, 2015 Paris Attacks Were an ‘Act of War’ by ISIS, Hollande Says

Paris — President François Hollande on Saturday blamed the Islamic state for the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, as the death toll rose to 127 victims, with 300 others hospitalized, 80 of them in critical condition. he declared three days of national mourning, and said that military troops would patrol the capital. France remained under a nationwide state of emergency.

“It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France,” Mr. Hollande told the nation from the Élysée palace, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic state. “it is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.”

Mr. Hollande did not specify what intelligence pointed to the militant group’s involvement. on Saturday, the Islamic state claimed responsibility for the attacks, but its claim could not be independently verified.

Paris, stricken by shock and grief, remained in a state of lockdown, with public transportation hobbled and public institutions — schools, museums, libraries, pools, food markets — closed. Charles de Gaulle Airport remained open, but with significant delays because of tighter passport and baggage checks.

In response to rapid territorial gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS or Daesh, calling itself the Islamic State) militants during the first half of 2014, and internationally condemned brutality, reported human rights abuses and the fear of further spill overs of the Syrian Civil War, many states began to intervene against ISIL in Syria and Iraq, and three states, later, intervened or shrivelled on ISIL in Libya.[258]

In mid-June 2014, Iran, according to American and British information, started flying drones over Iraq, and, according to Reuters, Iranian soldiers were in Iraq fighting ISIL. Simultaneously, the United States ordered a small number of troops to Iraq and started flying manned aircraft over Iraq.

In July 2014, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran sent Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft to Iraq, and Hezbollah purportedly sent trainers and advisers to Iraq to monitor ISIL's movements