The headline of Le parisien saddens me: cette fois, c’est la guerre. It saddens me because it implies that France has not been at war. While, in fact, you cannot bomb territories and your foreign minister cannot keep saying we are at war with DAECH or ISIS without being at war. This is what war looks like. You can be for the war or against the war, but it has been war for a while, indisputably. As so often , the wars have been fought according to the old presumption of colonial war: the front is over there in the distance. But this simply isn’t true any more. Drone some Yemen wedding, bomb Isis, but don’t think that the forces who’ve been armed to the max by the worldwide flow of arms – none of which are of Middle eastern manufacture - are powerless to respond on your home territory. This isn’t about moral equivalency, it is simply about the way wars are fought. The irresponsibility of populations who finance huge war machines and let their presidents play with them, play wit
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