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Our Response to the Brussels Bombings Requires Patience and Restraint

Posted March 22nd, 2016 at 1:47 pm (UTC-5)
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Merely killing passers-by serves no warlike purpose in itself. The explosive force derives from our reaction to it, from the public attention awarded to it and from the response of the political community. Publicity and response are the terrorists’ “useful idiocies”.