In the wake of the devastating coordinated attacks in Paris Friday by radical Islamic terrorists that left 129 dead and over 350 injured, France’s socialist president Francois Hollande announced that his country would wage a “pitiless” war against the Islamic State. Questions about how committed the French government will be to such a campaign will be answered in the months to come, but so far the country has taken more aggressive measures than it has in the past and responded with far more urgency than it did to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
“We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless,” President Hollande said at the Bataclan, the site of the most deadly of the attacks. “Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities, they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow.”
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