From my most recent NRO article, on France’s response to the attacks: “The French government has responded admirably to the Paris outrage and is preparing to cooperate with the Russians in attacking ISIS, and may be able to commit some elite forces directly to the fight, in support of Western-acceptable local forces, disorganized and discouraged though they are. It would be a salutary experience for the United States to be bypassed in its effort to immobilize the entire Western Alliance in the desultory anti-ISIS effort. This stubbornly imposed indolence is apparently based on Obama’s Islamophilia, pacifism, and historical skepticism of the uses of American military power, but it has furnished a convenient excuse for the entire Western Alliance, such as it remains, to follow the American lead in doing as little as possible, in accord with slack public opinion.”

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