"We must face facts: the division of humanity against itself is not an accident," Marot writes at Boulevard Voltaire. "Humanity has the genius to invent the most absurd reasons to justify the barbarity directed against itself… The Islamic State gives us the best example."
However, things have changed since the battle of Verdun. Back then through heroism and sacrifice soldiers expressed their love for their respective nations, while the Islamists today disguise their barbarism as heroism, making the former attractive by itself.
Echoing this, Europe responds with the "lie of a good conscience", according to Marot.
"Last Sunday, while Daesh jihadists claimed responsibility for the attack in Homs which claimed the lives of 59, MEP Yannick Jadot denounced France and the EU for the migrants’ plight, all the while stubbornly refusing to discuss the real source of the problem. While our ‘ally’ Erdogan without qualms provides indirect support to the Islamic State (Daesh), Bashar (Assad) and Putin are being accused of human rights violations. And Europeans keep making concessions to Cameron for the sake of preserving the EU, even though their actions introduce more and more chaos to this construction," the philosopher points out.
All in all, everyone has a motive to participate in the 'as absurd as you can get' game, Marot grimly concludes.
