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.
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