Hollande’s promise to respond militarily to the Nice attack just continues the West’s vicious circle of terror and war | Voices | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nice-terrorist-attack-france-isis-francois-hollande-response-syria-ir
At some point, we in the West are going to have to learn that if we intervene militarily in Mali or Iraq or Libya or Syria or interfere in Turkey, or Egypt, or the Gulf, or the Maghreb – then we will not be safe ’at home’
Hollande’s response to the Nice massacre will please only the far right | Philippe Marlière | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/17/attack-nice-hollande-response-state-emergency?CMP=twt_gu
Nice has the reputation of being one of the “safest” cities in France: the mayor has installed more than 1,000 CCTV cameras across town and it has one of the greatest number of municipal policemen in France. Nice is also a hotbed of hard-right politics: race relations are tense and Islamophobia is rampant. Should one be surprised that this appalling event took place in a city that encapsulates all the major social tensions and inequalities in contemporary France?