The Terrorist Past Has a Message for the Terrorist Present
History suggests that Europe’s current wave of terror can be ameliorated, if not entirely stopped.
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By Max BootJeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Western Europe appears to be under an unrelenting terrorism assault. In the past 19 months, France has seen the attack on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo (17 deaths); the coordinated attacks in Paris (130); a cargo-truck attack in Nice (84); and this week a hostage-taking and murder of an elderly parish priest in the small town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
Since July 18, Germany has seen at least three smaller-scale attacks: A Pakistani refugee injured five people with an ax on a train; an Iranian-German teenager shot nine...