Why not identify its cause, fight it, and eradicate it instead? There were no jihad terror attacks in France in the 1970s and 1980s. What has changed? Why not examine that?

But this defeatism is not surprising. Valls has predecessors who long ago said: “France is going to have to live with Nazism.”

“Nice Attack: PM Manuel Valls Says France ‘Faced With a War,'” by Jack Moore, Newsweek, July 15, 2016: