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As is distant wars, journalists in France are now kept away from areas where security forces intervene against terrorists. Should this be welcomed?
Selective sympathy raises troubling questions. If you neglect suffering in other places, it is much more difficult to mobilise political actors to take it seriously.
Like France, the US faces the possibility that ISIS will attack an American city sooner or later.
Paris police were able to use information found on a phone, but what details can be found that could tackle future attacks?
Many Western policies that aim to prevent terrorism may actually be causing it.
In the flurry of activity since Paris was attacked, the reasons it happened in the first place risk being forgotten.
Islamic State terrorism and propaganda are designed to provoke often predictable responses. We naturally respond with displays of outrage and solidarity, but we should beware the trap of division.
The language used by François Hollande and others implies extremism can be bombed out of existence. It can’t.
Less is often more – acting quickly in the wake of atrocities rarely leads to good laws.
After the terrorist atrocity, Western powers pledged to strike back at Islamic State. They will need to do more than rattle sabres.
So must the gentle Einstein have felt when his dreamed concept of the nature of matter flashed over Hiroshima. – John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961/2008) The brutal acts of a few terrorists…
It beggars belief that there are people who have attached themselves to groups seeking to escape this barbarity. Their objectives are the very antithesis of those seeking sanctuary.
The sad truth is that it’s all too easy to get hold of automatic weapons in Europe.
The terrorists haven’t attacked us because of our colour or religion, they want to destroy our way of life.
John Kerry and 20 diplomats came together Saturday to seek a way toward peace in Syria. A former Indian ambassador to Syria believes good progress was made.
In the next few weeks we may see a resurgence of rhetoric calling for more resources to fight the War on Terror following the Paris attacks. Islamophobia may take deeper root in Europe as a whole.
To simply say journalists should report in equal amounts on such deaths, regardless of where they occurred, may be nice from a normative perspective. But is it actually realistic?
The Paris attacks could inspire international leaders to come together in a global climate deal.
As borders are re-erected and national interests take precedence over collective ones, it is hard to see the Europe that we know surviving in quite the same way.
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