Paris has been hit. Again.
Terrorists went on the attack in a concert hall. Dozens of victims were killed. French police then stormed the hall, rescued some hostages and killed two attackers.
World leaders around the globe have issued statements of condemnation. President Obama called the tragedy today an “attack on all of humanity.”
Is this what world war looks like?Ā Have we been fighting this international war against terrorism around the globe to such a degree that someone can declare this to be the start of World War III?
Paris was hit a couple of years ago atĀ a magazine publishing office. Twelve victimsĀ died inĀ that act of terror. And there have been countless other attacks all around the world.
The 9/11 attacks in 2001 in New York and Washington seemed to ignite the inferno. There have been so many others they are impossible off the top of one’s head to count them.
We knew when President Bush sent the troops into Afghanistan to hunt down al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists that this war wouldn’t be won with a surrender document. There wouldn’t be a Battleship Missouri Moment. This looks for all the world like a war without end.
Paris is suffering yet again.
Our hearts go out to the French, its leaders and its people.
Will there be more heartache somewhere else? Most assuredly. Yet the fight must go on wherever we find monsters willing to commit gruesome acts of terror against innocent victims.
For as long as it takes.