Moral values without moral commitments
In 2015, facing a migrant crisis that was exacerbated by the collapse of the state in Libya, the ongoing Syrian civil war, and the continuing gains of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Europe’s de facto leader, Angela Merkel, declared, “Wir schaffen das,” or “We can do this.”
By the end of that year, the terrorist who had masterminded the horrible massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris and the suicide bombing at the Stade de France in a Parisian suburb was discovered to have used the migrant flows to disguise himself and move freely over Europe. Merkel was at the same ...
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