French Government Retaliaion 101: Enabling Gross HR violations

1. Defiant posture of retaliation
2. Internal state of siege, declared as "state of emergency"=discursive invisibility
3. Externalized war
4. Election year with candidates competing to be the toughest
5. Secrecy and fear enhancement
6. History of ethnic persecution
7. Teaming with the US
8. Impunity for gross human rights violations and absence of critique
9. War actions validated by national and world public opinion
10. International ranking of some countries' losses, "more important" ('grievable') than others