Commentary
For many around the world, the transition from one year to another is something to celebrate. We usually engage in reviews of the previous 365 days, make resolutions for the next, and party with our friends or attend events to ring in the New Year. Pretty typical, I’d say.
This is exactly what happened in New Orleans two days ago, but the festive atmosphere was rocked by a terrorist attack. A man drove a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street, killing at least 14 and wounding dozens, before he got out of his vehicle and engaged police in a firefight, and was subsequently killed. There are also reports that he had IEDs (improvised explosive devices) which, thankfully, failed to detonate….