Is This The Rationale For Charlie Hebdo ???

Arthur Silber is one of the most intelligent and perceptive persons I've ever come across.

I recommend that you read his latest essay about Charlie Hebdo, as it may contain the underlying rationale for our embrace of Charlie Hebdo and of the "war on terror" itself:

It is a tragically common historic pattern: ridicule, demonization, extermination. The consolidation of the United States in its current form and its spread across the North American continent were founded on just such a program.

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-propaganda-war-horror-of-paris-rally.html

It's what we did to the Indians, blacks, and the Japanese. And now we're doing it to Muslims.

It's the way America works. It was the way the Nazis worked, too.

We're not the angels we think we are.