Charles Krauthammer "Terrorism is speech — speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. The 19th-century anarchist Paul Brousse called it “propaganda by deed.” Accordingly, the Boston Marathon attack, the first successful terror bombing in the United States since 9/11, was designed for maximum effect. At the finish line there would be not only news cameras but also hundreds of personal videos to amplify the message."
"But what message? There was no claim of responsibility, no explanatory propaganda. Indeed, was it terrorism at all?"
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The use of the word complicates things for this administration in this way:
"To use the word terrorism, meaning deliberate attack, would have undermined the blame-shifting and raised exactly the questions — about warnings ignored, inadequate security, absence of contingency plans — that have dogged the administration for months."
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"Yet Obama couldn’t say the word. This is no linguistic triviality. He wouldn’t be tripping over himself to avoid any reference to Islam if it was insignificant.
Obama has performed admirably during the Boston crisis, speaking both reassuringly and with determination. But he continues to be linguistically uneasy. His wavering over the word terrorism is telling, though in this case unimportant. The real test will come when we learn the motive for the attack."
From Arutz Sheva in Israel comes this appropriate cartoon:
Some background on Chechen Muslims: RUSSIA: 2004 Beslan School Massacre by Chechen Muslim terrorists
"But what message? There was no claim of responsibility, no explanatory propaganda. Indeed, was it terrorism at all?"
The use of the word complicates things for this administration in this way:
"To use the word terrorism, meaning deliberate attack, would have undermined the blame-shifting and raised exactly the questions — about warnings ignored, inadequate security, absence of contingency plans — that have dogged the administration for months."
....
"Yet Obama couldn’t say the word. This is no linguistic triviality. He wouldn’t be tripping over himself to avoid any reference to Islam if it was insignificant.
Obama has performed admirably during the Boston crisis, speaking both reassuringly and with determination. But he continues to be linguistically uneasy. His wavering over the word terrorism is telling, though in this case unimportant. The real test will come when we learn the motive for the attack."
From Arutz Sheva in Israel comes this appropriate cartoon:
Some background on Chechen Muslims: RUSSIA: 2004 Beslan School Massacre by Chechen Muslim terrorists
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