Terror can only succeed with our cooperation | Simon Jenkins

The warlike response to the Paris massacre by western governments, the media and the rest of the world has answered the dreams of Islamic State

Think what your enemy wants you to do, and do the opposite. No maxim of war is so ignored.

Since last Friday’s killings in Paris, the world has answered the dreams of Islamic State. It has drenched their deeds in fame, glorified its perpetrators with vilification and defined them as warriors not murderers. Deeds of the most squalid horror have been “nat...