Honest Grief and Crocodile Tears

I really do question the motives of those whose first instinct after a terrorist attack is to write about some alleged “hypocrisy” among the mourners. Isn’t there a more reputable way to earn a paycheck? Salon, a website that passes the Extremist Turing Test by being indistinguishable from the parodies of it, recently furnished the world with a piece whose title urged us to “take a hard look at ourselves” after the latest massacre in Paris:

Minutes after the Paris attacks, Presidents Hollande and Obama addressed the world, publicly lamenting the tragedy. Secretary John Kerry condemned them as “heinous, evil, vile acts.”

Notable was the official silence surrounding another horrific terrorist attack that took place only the day before. Two ISIS suicide bombers killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 230 in attacks on a heavily Shia Muslim community in Beirut on November 12. President Obama did not address the world and condemn the bombings, which comprised the worst…