Alex Massie Alex Massie

You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you

We weep with France today. Tears of sorrow but also, unavoidably, of rage. And behind those tears lies something else: a fearful sense of apprehension rooted in the knowledge that this will happen again, somewhere else. It already is happening elsewhere. The assault on Paris last night followed another Islamic State attack in Beirut in which at least 41 people were killed by two suicide bombers.

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