The short answer is, much more strongly than in the past.

French President François Hollande called the Paris attack an ACT OF WAR. “Faced with war, the country must take appropriate decisions,” he said. France “will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group” and “will act by all means anywhere, inside or outside the country,” said Hollande.

48 hours after the attacks, France sent 10 fighter jets to blast the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa, Syria, with 20 bombs. It was France’s largest campaign against the Islamic State so far.

Compare this with Spain’s non-response to the terrorist attack on Madrid in 2004. After that, Spain capitulated to the jihadists! This time around, France appears to be dead set on seeking revenge.

Germany too may be gearing up for action. “Do we now have to go to war?” asked Germany’s most popular newspaper Bild. It speculated that France could invoke NATO’s mutual defense clause and quoted several German politicians stating Germany’s preparedness to use military force.

The Paris massacre has awakened a sleeping giant. Many Europeans have already made a direct connection between this attack and Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. One of the attackers had a Syrian passport and may have entered Europe through Greece as a refugee. Germany arrested another man a couple of weeks ago who was heading to France with a car full of firearms and hand grenades.

This is exactly what Europe’s anti-immigration politicians have been warning about for months. In September, United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said “my concern is that ISIS have said that they will use the migrant wave to flood Europe with half a million of their jihadist fighters. … Even if it’s only 500, I am very worried about that.”

After the attack last Friday, everyone now sees that Farage and others had good reason to worry. The question is, HOW WILL EUROPE RESPOND?

Leaders like François Hollande have talked tough in the past, but with little action to back it up. This time, it may well be different. Far right parties in Europe were alreadyon the rise, even before Friday’s tragedy. A French poll published last week put the far right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in first or second place for France’s presidential elections. The pressure is on for leaders in Europe to ACT—and now!

Prof. Peter Neumann, a terrorist expert at King’s College London told Britain’s Channel 4 that if …

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