Response To Terrorism

Terrorism poses a destructive threat to the French state and its subjects, and the state has a responsibility to effectively address and defeat terrorism. Constant essentially recommends that governments ought to respond to insecurity by increasing justice and liberalism, as only those methods will bring lasting security and legitimacy. The implementation of exceptional powers is not only an ineffective response to terrorism, it also creates more problems than it solves. Similarly, Machiavelli maintains that good leaders ought to remain attentive to the times, and have a spirit disposed to change. The time has come for the French government to be flexible, to change its illiberal and destructive foreign policy in the Middle East. The winds