When U.S. officials announced they were reasonably sure a drone strike had killed Jihadi John last Friday morning, little did the world know, ISIS would be laying claim to the death and wounding of hundreds in Paris by nightfall. In what French President Francois Hollande accurately  describe as an act of war against his country, ISIS/ ISIL placed Paris on notice, the French had a war on its hands.

Vowing a merciless response, French President Hollande declared a stated of emergency, closed the boarders (well not exactly), place the nation on lockdown and ordered French jets to pounded the hell out of ISIS/ISIL strongholds in Syria on Sunday. Providing comfort to terrorized Parisians, the French government has placed security forces at every location authorities could fathom as being a potential target.

Without question President Hollande has crossed every (T) and dotted every (I) in identifying threats to mitigate harm to the French people. Unfortunately, all these types of measures have been taken before. Air strikes in far away lands and securing the homeland may provide the public with a sense the government has the capacity to combat this menace, but its clear the world knows more will have to be done. ISIS will have to be confronted up close and personal. And here is where the hard questions begin.