This statement is about a career government official cynically using the murder of a large number of people for his own ends, just as the murderers cynically used those people for their ends. Yes, it&#x27;s both political. But it doesn&#x27;t do any good, what <i>would</i> do good rather than using this to hasten the big brother state to the next level would be to attack these problems at the root. But that would require an entirely different viewpoint, one which I&#x27;m not sure America is ready for because it would ask too many questions about deeds in the recent past. If anything a good case could be made for a link between the Iraq invasion and the murders in Paris, my guess is that if the one had not happened the other wouldn&#x27;t have happened either, but that&#x27;s just my opinion and not something that I can prove.