As France mourned its 130 dead in an emotional ceremony today, survivors of 13 November attending on stretchers and in wheelchairs, the question of how to defeat Islamic State seemed as intractable as ever. François Hollande has mounted a fullblown diplomatic effort to build a “large and single coalition”. A strong emphasis is being placed on rallying support from European states because, as the French president put it, Isis didn’t just strike at Paris but at Europe as a whole.
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