Yet another damn terrorist attack

[Elok]

I think it hardly matters who was responsible at this point. I expect the end result will be much the same whoever did it: a vigorous hardening of attitudes towards foreigners, especially refugees; a big and fairly long-lived uptick in support for hardliner crypto-Nazi parties; Europe taking a more active role in the anti-IS fight. IIUC the ultimate goal of all such terror raids is to breed further terror by deepening conflict and forcing everyone, however peaceable, to take a side in the conflict. In that respect, I expect these attacks to be astonishingly successful. In the long run, I do not believe they have any hope of achieving any strategic goal, but then I think these people have always been underpants gnomes.

[notyoueither]

Today we are all French?

[Uncle Sparky]

Has Dauphin posted yet?

Anyone else in Paris?

[Uncle Sparky]

More shootings. Paris is turning into just another U.S. city.

Thanks for posting.

[Dinner]

If you want to see me being terrible at communicating (at probably the best forum I have ever had) you can watch me

http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/neutrinos14/miller/

In my defence as an experimentalist I always give powerpoint talks and giving a blackboard talk (Even one that I had given before in powerpoint form) was a lot more difficult than I expected.

JM

UCSB

[Dinner]

Syrians would offer a two for one deal if we're going to assume hatred is my motivation here.

An attack by a redux of the Red Brigade would offer me the opportunity to laugh at everyone who automatically assumed it was Islamic Terror though and that assumption as we've seen crosses the political aisle.

They were shouting Allah Ackbar so they were definitely Islamic terrorists.

[Gatekeeper]

*sigh* 153 dead is the latest count, with authorities expecting the death toll to rise.

[Dinner]

Over 200 wounded and at least 80 of those are critical.

[Dauphin]

They were shouting Allah Ackbar so they were definitely Islamic terrorists.

*sigh* 153 dead is the latest count, with authorities expecting the death toll to rise.

People have short memories, the news I was reading headlined that 120 dead made it the deadliest attack on aWestern capital since 9/11. Madrid 2004 clean out of their memory.

[Bereta_Eder]

yep.
191 dead there and 1.800 wounded.
Completely changed spain's policy (it changed gov and immideately withdrew from iraq) and made us a bit concerned since we were organizing the olympics that year

[C0ckney]

bbc are reporting at least 127 dead and 180 wounded.

ISIS officially claims responsibility (in french)

[Bereta_Eder]

rather chilling message. And in impecable french

[Sava]

The legacy of George W Bush lives on

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[Ellestar]

Why are they hitting France, anyway? France is not a first anti-terrorist fighter in the world, yet they were hit twice in a row.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

My personal take is that France was the only country that actually did something against terrorism in the last decade, ie they saved Mali and pushed Al Qaida out of the country.

They probably hate them the most, for Iraq, Lybia, Syria AlQ leadership probably has warm and fuzzy feelings about the US and UK role.