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Mon Nov 16, 2015, 11:42 AM Nov 2015

L'Express: Hollande seeks to extend emergency decree for three months

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/en-direct-explosions-et-fusillades-simultanees-a-paris_1735712.html

I'm not a huge fan of military reaction to terrorism. There are times it is called for and times it is not.

That said, I think Daesh gravely miscalculated if they thought that this attack would knock France out of the war. France absolutely will not give up now, and they have managed to make an implacable enemy of probably the one country who might have been their friend in peace negotitations.
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