Standing With Charlie

It is difficult to think of a terrorist attack that strikes more deeply at the core of western liberty than the slaughter that took place this morning in the editorial rooms of Charlie Hebdo. The editors of the French satirical weekly were slain as they were meeting to decide on the content of their next issue. They had to have known they were playing with fire. They were, after all, firebombed as recently as 2011, and it was their now late publisher, Stephane Charbonnier, who said: “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”