Jihad in Paris

There is an obvious reaction to this.  But trying to intelligent, as my vanity pushes me to be, I look for different viewpoints.

I came across this one, which counsels a different response from the one that would be obvious.  By the way, the obvious one would be like kind retaliation.  An eye for an eye.  Tooth for tooth.

One still could ask some rather pointed questions after reading this counsel, all the same.  Among them are these:  Why is al Qaeda in Europe at all after all these years?  Wasn't al Qaeda supposedly destroyed or on the run?

I am not convinced by the piece linked to above, only looking at the less obvious.  The less obvious thing is why isn't more being done?  Why does al Qaeda even exist after this many years?  Anybody want to explain that?  There is a way to deal with these groups, if that is really intended.

Okay, if the best way to respond to these type of attacks is to go after those responsible, then go for it.  But to me, it may be asked if something more can be done about these types of violent groups.  In the US, comparable groups like the KKK have been fully suppressed.  Imagine that in this country, a KKK group lynched 12 negroes, similar to what they may have done at the height of their power.  I'd think that such a possibility here now would be just about nonexistent and inconceivable.  That's because of an aggressive effort to stop the KKK.  It has succeeded.  We ruin people for even the slightest whiff of a connection to this group, no matter how tenuous.  Witness the Scalise controversy.  Why hasn't this been done in Europe or France?