France and its heroic citizens are grieving yet again.
This time the terrorist — or terrorists — employed a new and ghastly method of delivering death and destruction.
It came tonight in the form of a truck that plowed into a crowd of revelers celebrating Bastille Day, which is France’sĀ independence day.
As I am writing this brief blog post, the death count stands at 80. Officials, though, think that number will increase.
The world is shocked and in grief over the tragedy that struck in Nice.
World leaders are issuing the appropriate expressions of condemnation.
What now?
It’s not yet clear whether the driver of the truck was from the Islamic State or al-Qaeda. Officials can’t ask him, because French police opened fire on the vehicle and killed the driver in the hail of bullets.
My sense is that we’ll know pretty damn soon just who this guy was and for which organization he was working — if it turns out he was a terrorist agent.
U.S. officials earlier today confirmed that Omar the Chechen indeed was killed this past spring in a U.S.-led attack on ISIS forces in Iraq. No one, quite naturally, believes Omar the Chechen’s death spells the end of ISIS, given that he was a top-tier commander of the terrorist organization.
This is the kind of “war” the world is fighting against these radical Islamist monsters. They attack so-called “soft targets,” causing uncontrollable fear among their victims. Is it at all possible to detect every single attack before it occurs?
As we’ve learned to our horror once again, the world is fighting a cunning and ruthless enemy.
What’s more, the world has received yet another stern lesson on the need to hit the terrorists hard — and keep hitting them hard for as long as it takes.