Todays Paris :Islamic State Became An Existential Threat To The West

Islamic State became an existential threat to the West Europeans - it is not news - they are snooty about Americans. Especially the French, but with Britain "special relationship" until the situation contained. In interviews with mostly retired intelligence people, a Reuters Institute for the project, and often senior British officers to be one of those silly phrase "war on terror" believes heard, and they do not use them. This is not a war, they think. Conflict "exist" was not. It is hard, but the loop is limited: it was a serious challenge from a dangerous terrorist. Now it's different. Francois Hollande, French Socialist president, killed last Friday in Paris that "an act of war." Pope Francis the Italian soldiers killed in the First World War at a ceremony to commemorate the 100,000 that "one can talk about a third war, genocide and destruction with a crime and, fractured fought." (His grandfather was one of th...