Paris Attack

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• 12-5-15
  

  Shame on you, Niall Ferguson

  by Paul B. Sturtevant

  He elected to throw gasoline on the fires of Islamophobia after the Paris attacks.

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• 11-22-15
  

  The Paris Attacks Are Giving the Great Powers Opposed to ISIS an Opportunity

  by Mark Jarrett

  A history lesson shows what happens when an opportunity like this is missed.

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• 11-21-15
  

  How Will Our Response to the Paris Attacks Look Like from the Perspective of History?

  by John Dickson

  The deplorable suggestions that Syrians should be excluded from America won’t look good 50 or 100 years from now.

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• SOURCE: UPI
  11-17-15
  

  Hollande proposes that Syrian antiquities be brought to France for safekeeping

  His plan, he said, would protect artifacts from "fanatics who are attacking the living and the dead, all who have humanity today and tomorrow, and those of yesterday."

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• 11-18-15
  

  First, Stop the Civil War in Syria

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  And that won’t be easy, as history shows.

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• 11-18-15
  

  This Is How Paris Fits into ISIS’s Long-term Strategy

  by William Polk

  What we need to do is not fall into their trap.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-16-15
  

  Before Paris Attack, the Bataclan Had Long History in Music and Politics

  From the early 2000s until 2009, when the majority owner was a Jewish family, pro-Palestinian activists held several demonstrations outside the hall to protest an annual benefit held there for the Israeli border police.

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  11-16-15
  

  ‘From Paris with Love': A short history of the United States’ affinity for decorating bombs

  The tradition goes back to World War Two.

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• 11-16-15
  

  President Obama’s Striking Embrace of Military Solutions

  by Cody J. Foster

  And he won the Nobel Peace Prize?

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• SOURCE: Independent Journal
  11-16-15
  

  Tens of Thousands of People Thought It Was a Tribute to Paris. They got duped…

  A rumor was spreading on Twitter that the lights on the Eiffel Tower had been shut off in honor of the victims of the attack. There was just one problem: The lights are always shut off every night at 1am.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  11-16-15
  

  The Endless Cycle of Terrorism

  by Ivan Eland

  In the wake of the heinous attacks on civilians in Paris, the French are now prone to repeating the same mistakes the United States made after the even more barbaric 9/11 attacks.

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• SOURCE: The Australian
  11-16-15
  

  Paris Attack: Fall of Rome should be a warning to the West

  by Niall Ferguson

  Niall Ferguson warns that the West could fall -- and it could happen quickly. 

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• 11-14-15
  

  From "Freedom Fries" to "We are all French!"

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  The Paris Tragedy and the American Right’s Vilification of France.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  11-13-15
  

  Paris attacks: A history of terror attacks in modern France

  Terrorist attacks in France are not a 21st century phenomenon, with the country seeing royal assassination attempts and anarchist bombings among the bloody history of the last 200 years.

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• 11-14-15
  

  Paris at Midnight

  by Juan Cole

  Is this an attempt to push France out of the anti-ISIS coalition in Syria?

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• 11-14-15
  

  Why the Paris Massacre Will Have Limited Impact

  by Daniel Pipes

  The Establishment denies that these attacks have anything to do with Islamists. They're wrong. But the public understands.