Friday's massacres in Paris have left France's leadership facing a dilemma familiar to Western governments since 9/11: They need a response at home and abroad that balances the need to express national fury and protect their society from further attacks, with an awareness that overreaction on both fronts risks further perils. "The agonising challenge in responding to terror is averting the very measures that inadvertently assist violent or anti-democratic forces," one French counterterrorism official said in an interview earlier this year in the wake of January's Charlie Hebdo attacks that left 18 victims dead. "Provoking that kind of response is one objective of terrorists. That is why...
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