On Sunday, January 11, 2014, Paris became the capital of the world as the setting of a unique historical demonstration: more than 40 international political leaders marched in the city ahead of two to three million people who had rallied against the terrorist attacks four days earlier.  In symbolic fashion, they were manifesting their opposition to two attacks.  The first was the massacre at the Paris office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by gunmen, who, using  Kalashnikov military weapons, killed 12 people, including the editor in chief and his staff and two police officers and injured another 11.  The second was the murder of four innocent people, all Jews, in the kosher supermarket in the Rue des Rosiers in eastern Paris. As has happened so often before, some of the mainstream media and the Obama administration were hesitant in determining the nature of the attacks and the identity of the gunmen.  French political leaders, destined by...(Read Full Article)