As Mark Steyn says, it's time now to launch the "pitiless" war against the Islamic extremists, and stop with the hashtags, and the vigils, and the weepy sentimentality. The barbarians are inside the gates
The death toll is about 150 in Paris.
ISIS has demonstrated its global reach. It is responsible for recent bombings in Ankara and Beirut, too. The evidence is mounting a bomb blew up the Russian plane flying out of the Sinai; ISIS took credit for it.
So now we know this is no limited, regional war that can be contained. The West has to destroy ISIS's conceit that it can operate a caliphate in the Middle East and deliver bombers throughout the world.
Other third order effects: illegal immigration will stay a major campaign issue here. (Even though that it is much less a problem now than it was fifteen years ago and it has not been a cover for extremism.) In the EU, the movement to close borders will grow; Merkel will lose that argument. We also may see less attacks on the kind of programs the NSA was running to stop terrorism. Anyone up for closing GTMO now?
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