[Don Jones]

...an increasingly authoritarian EU federation, of which Hollande's vow to wage war against the perpetrators "sans pitié" is the first glimmer.

You mean like George Bush in 2003? The same guy who had America break from the Geneva Conventions and made of the U.S. a Khmer-Rouge-like torture state? Invading a country that helped ISIS gain power? Another failed American war in the hallowed tradition of Vietnam?

Talk about authoritarian.

Besides, Pipes is clearly anti-Muslim. I used to follow him but grew to know better. As the majority of Islamist victims are Muslim why would we say it is Islam that is the problem? Most Muslims don't like these creeps. That view in no way helps. Kind of like saying all Christians are Klansmen. So while I'm no fan of Howard Dean, surely the murders at Charlie Hebdo and last Friday are not typical of Muslims.

We will have to see if the Front National will not gain ascendancy by the attack on Paris. My hunch is that it will but I won't lay money on that yet....