Less than 48 hours after the attacks that killed 129 innocent people in Paris, the French have, for all intents and purposes, declared war on ISIS. Attack their capital, and they will strike back at yours.

France bombed the Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday night, its most aggressive strike against the Islamic State group it blames for killing 129 people in a string of terrorist attacks across Paris only two days before.

President François Hollande, who vowed to be “unforgiving with the barbarians” of the Islamic State after the carnage in Paris, decided on the airstrikes in a meeting with his national security team on Saturday, officials said.

Raqqa has been well-known as the ISIS capital, and why it has been allowed to keep functioning is beyond me. At least 20 bombs have been dropped on the city, with some reports saying 30.

Reuters says that the French strikes on Raqqa involved 10 jets dropping 20 bombs, quoting the French Defence Ministry

— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) November 15, 2015

@frednavarro Aftermath footage of 30 airstrikes conducted by #France targeting the outskirts of #IS controlled Raqqahttps://t.co/9veypYQPJn

— Jeffs (@jeffs_araujo35) November 15, 2015

Reportedly, power and water have been knocked out.

Reports on the strikes began flowing from the Raqqa area about 9:30 p.m. local time, with activists on the ground counting six at first, the numbers mounting minute by minute. It was a heavier barrage than had typically hit the city and its environs, and it knocked out electricity and water service, spreading more fear than usual among civilians.

Meanwhile, Obama is pledging support while showing up late to a moment of silence at the G-20 Summit and walking back previous comments about ISIS being “contained.”

Obama vowed again on Sunday to help France hunt down the perpetrators of the attacks. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Obama agreed with French President François Hollande that the rampage, which killed at least 132 and wounded more than 350, was an “act of war.” But he and others disputed suggestions from Republicans that Obama, who said in an interview last week that the U.S.-led coalition had contained the Islamic State, has consistently underestimated the adversary.

The president was referring to recent setbacks for the militant group on the battlefield in Iraq, Rhodes told reporters. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh, a derogatory term in Arabic, has long harbored ambitions to sow bloodshed farther from its home base in Syria, he said, emphasizing that Obama has been realistic that the fight would be long and difficult.

“It’s the manifestation of what has been the ambition of ISIL for some time now — to conduct attacks beyond Iraq and Syria,” Rhodes said. “The president indicated when he launched the counter-ISIL strike campaign that he knew ISIL had those ambitions, which is why we have always focused on the threat of foreign fighters.”

Let’s hope that France continues to punish ISIS, and that they don’t count on Obama to be helping out much. He’s too busy trying to preserve his fictional legacy, and not looking to take the blame for what he has let metastasize on his watch.