From both the left and right, efforts to explain the situation in Paris inevitably become reductive. Too few, it seems, are willing to concede that while the act of shooting civilians dead where they live and work is crude, the roots of such actions are deep and complex, and the motivations, to some extent, unknowable and incoherent. The bolder each claim, the more likely it is to contain a qualifying or even contradictory argument at least as plausible.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 01:22:09 +0000
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