Paris might have been Berlin, London or Rome. Europe has something of the feel of a continent under siege. On its eastern edge, governments have been overwhelmed by the numbers arriving from Syria, Afghanistan and many troubled points beyond. The Paris atrocity, the murderous work of the self-styled Islamic State, has seen Syria’s brutal civil war transferred almost casually to the heart of one of Europe’s great cities.
受到攻擊的城市原本可能不是巴黎，而是柏林、倫敦或羅馬。歐洲有一種整體遭到圍攻的感覺。在歐洲東面，來自敘利亞、阿富汗和許多其他受難地區的難民的巨大數量，令各國政府不堪重負。從發生在巴黎的暴行——即自封的“伊斯蘭國”(Islamic State)所犯下的殺人事件——可以看到，敘利亞的殘酷內戰幾乎在不經意間，就已轉移至歐洲最大城市之一的核心地帶。
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