Charlie Hebdo v. Boston Marathon

It has been reported that in the wake of the massacre at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, nearly 90,000 police, troops and civil servants were mobilized to search for the two gunmen who escaped from the scene [and who were later killed by police]:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/09/fran-j09.html

Does this not remind you of what happened following the Boston Marathon bombing, when 10,000 police and military troops were mobilized and an entire city was locked down to search for two bombing suspects?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/19/boston-lockdown-police-hunt-bombing-suspect

Is it really necessary to send a force bigger that an Army Corps to search for two men? Talk about asymmetric warfare !!!

Or is this maybe practice for future lockdowns when the natives get restless?

Here is another interesting comparison of the two tragedies - in both cases the alleged terrorists were well known to the security services of both countries:

http://whowhatwhy.com/2015/01/08/paris-boston-missing-comparison/

Really makes you wonder what's going on, doesn't it?

Can you spell f-a-l-s-e f-l-a-g in French?

Update: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts discusses many of these issues in his latest essay:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/charlie-hebdo-and-tsarnaevs-trial-qui-bono/5423632

Who benefits? Certainly not you or I.

Second update: Thanks in part to the US-inspired oil price war, Venezuela has just put its food distribution under military protection:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-09/venezuelans-throng-grocery-stores-on-military-protection-order.html

We shall someday soon see the same thing happen in the United States. Mark my words.