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If Orlando couldn’t shake off Obama’s complacency, how can Nice?

By Washington Examiner
Published July 16, 2016 4:01am ET
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If Orlando couldn’t shake off Obama’s complacency, how can Nice?
Unlike Obama, French President Francois Hollande has already been forced to change his government's footing, invoking the emergency powers that his nation's constitution permits and urging his countrymen, with a sense of national purpose, to "absolute vigilance." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | Andrew Harnik

The Western world’s heart once again breaks for France, which has now suffered two massive and deadly terrorist attacks in the space of just eight months.

Between these two massacres and the March attack at the Brussels airport, nearly 250 people have been murdered in recent terrorist terrorist attacks in western Europe.

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