Behind the shield of Western military action in the war on terror, we've seen the beginning of progress in the Arab world to resolve their civil war to defeat Islamist jihadis that could end the supply of jihadis by marginalizing Islamist thought. Europe, too, may be trying to turn off their smaller jihadi-producing machine.
Over the last few years more European governments have come to realize that integration of their recent Moslem migrants into the local culture is an essential process for preventing Islamic terrorism. That means some nations are making it mandatory to learn the local language and customs. Another lesson learned is the importance of preventing unintegrated Moslem migrants from congregating in Moslem majority neighborhoods. That enables radical Islamic clerics to establish mosques where all the members are dedicated to, or supportive of Islamic terrorism as a means of “defending Islam.”
France is not alone in its sudden resolve to fight that radicalization, apparently. And in the rest of the post that I quoted, you can see hope from America's experience that the European effort is not futile.
The Long War might actually end with Western and moderate (and modernized) Moslem victory rather than peter out from jihadi exhaustion, large body counts of more conveniently vulnerable non-Islamist or insufficiently Islamist Moslems at the hands of jihadis, and battlefield losses--only to reignite in a generation or two, this time with nuclear weapons in the jihadi arsenal.
