THE wave of atrocities over the last two weeks — from the downing of a Russian passenger aircraft to a bloodbath in Beirut and now the massacre in Paris — reveals a new global terror war. The militant Islamic State group also known as IS has now taken its war outside the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria. The Paris carnage has altered the international security paradigm. One may not agree with the Pope that the attacks are part of a third world war, but the Paris tragedy has certainly lent a global dimension to what has so far been seen mainly as a Middle Eastern civil war; a legacy of the US invasion of Iraq. As one analyst put it: “The contagion has broken out of its confinement.”...
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