Great read (found moments ago on YC):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nybooks.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;nyrblog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;16&#x2F;paris-attacks-isis-strategy-chaos&#x2F;?mod=e2this" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nybooks.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;nyrblog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;16&#x2F;paris-attac...</a><p>In another article I read this month (but can&#x27;t seem to find right now) it was explained that &quot;terrorism&quot; was mostly... a social network -- and the article above agrees with that characterization, I think.<p>This whole mess doesn&#x27;t have a lot to do with religion, Islam or otherwise; it&#x27;s about young people trying to find meaning.<p>It may sound absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, despicable even, to compare today&#x27;s terrorists to peaceniks from the 60s, but dismissing them as &quot;crazies&quot; is even more wrong, and less helpful.<p>(And I say this as a Frenchman having lived in Paris all my life).