Only days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, one of the Belgian-based organizers of the Paris attacks in November 2015, Brussels was rocked by two suicide attacks that killed more than 30 people and injured other 300.
The bombings have called attention to the crisis of security across Europe in the face of terrorism and radicalization.
But the incidents also add color to the image of Belgium—my native country—as a failed nation-state, one that seems egregiously incapable of protecting its own people.
The incidents also add color to the image of Belgium as a failed nation-state, one that seems egregiously incapable of protecting its own people.