Something has gone horribly wrong when a terror attack, instead of shock and revulsion, brings déjà vu and a leaden despair. Nothing works though, because the moment of helpless terror is repeated on the television screen, the computer screen, the cell phone screen. Soon we will know who the attacker was and the debates will start raging: root causes, more security, immigration, refugees, religion, war. For the simple reason that world leadership has shown very little intention from the very beginning of the “war on terror” to do anything other than play a game of whack-a-mole. To stop the smuggling of oil, to prevent the flow of recruits into Syria and Iraq, to encourage reconciliation and rapprochement.

Source: Huffington Post March 22, 2017 20:17 UTC