Monday, November 16, 2015

Ed Kilgore On "Giving The Terrorist What They Want."

++Ed quotes Paul Krugman's piece about Jeb Bush saying that the Paris attacks are a full-scale attack on Western Civilization and that ISIS poses an existential threat to our way of life. No,it doesn't says Paul just it wants to sow panic.

++But Kilgore says that Marco Rubio is worst and cites Peter Beinert's account of Rubio saying that ISIS attacked because they are "jealous of our freedoms" ala George W. Bush. Kilgore points out that ISIS wasn't created because they feared woman motorists but rather that we invaded Iraq.

++He cites the terrorism which occurred during the French-Algerian war when France tried to stop Algeria's independence.

++I liken it to the rash of bombings in the United States at the turn of the last century, which were caused by anarchist cells and sent the country into hysteria, provoking the first Red Scare.

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