After the atrocities
The attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket brought the French together. But the unity may not last
WHEN history comes to assess France’s response to the Paris terror attacks of January 2015, it may judge them the moment that a battered nation returned to the values it was founded to protect. “France has lived up to its history,” declared Manuel Valls, the prime minister, during a stirring speech to parliament on January 13th. But it was now “at war”: “not against a religion” but “against terrorism, jihadism and radical Islamism.”
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