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This picture hit me harder than the videos of the explosion itself. A “person of interest” is in custody, and Boston’s police are efficiently following up on every lead, combing through videos and pictures taken at the scene, and through surveillance tapes.
It all seem so pointless. Americans are not cowed by acts of terror, but enraged. Groups that are too small and too weak to gather either notice nor interest think that acts of destruction can—what? Draw interest to their cause? The record would not bear that out. Terrorist groups don’t usually attack conventional security forces, they attack “soft” targets like tired athletes and their supporters that will draw widespread publicity.
In Iraq, al Qaeda operatives are suspected of 12 explosions responsible for killing 55 people across Iraq on the same day as the Boston Marathon. Max Boot, an expert on guerrilla warfare, traveled to Boston yesterday where he was scheduled to speak about the history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism, which he reprised in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Our thoughts and prayers are with those injured and the families of those who were killed. City officials, security people and ordinary bystanders and first responders were magnificent. Bless them all.
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