It's hard to believe it's anyone but Muslims. If you want to wait to confirm, that's fair enough. It's not like you or me or anyone else here needs to swing into action.
But going on the presumption that this is almost certainly a Muslim terrorist act, what will the French do? What will Europe do?
The allowance of so many refugees into the continent was foolish almost beyond description. That X, Y, and/or Z terrorist group would take advantage of the opportunity and send operatives was a certainty. Or maybe this particular group of people were already there. But even if that is the case, it cannot be doubted that there are many more than that now.
How was it that the European nations just ignored the potential and likely consequences? It seemed like an overnight decision--or at least one that utterly failed to account for both foreseen and unforeseen consequences.
And what should the U.S. do?
I think it should provide the support that France asks for. Whatever form that may take is unknown right now, but the U.S. has asked them for support and gotten it before; sometimes fully, sometimes half-assed, sometimes not at all. But we do have a common cause here.
What should the U.S. do about allowing in refugees from that region?
My answer to that is obvious. Don't allow in a single one.
There are multiple Arab nations right there that could have helped with the refugee crisis, but they refused. So much for Muslim unity and brotherhood.
This is a tragedy, but an easily foreseeable one.
