“It is now clear that the Tsarnaev brothers had no strategic plan but to kill in a very public fashion. What were they thinking? They weren’t. Careless, spontaneous, immature, they are [the kind of] attackers who are most difficult to identify, precisely because of their lack of sophistication. Guarding against them is, paradoxically, even harder than targeting international threats. A post-marathon-bombing Pew poll showed that 75 percent of Americans believed that occasional terror will be part of our future. That isn’t a sign of resignation. It is mature realism.”
Juliette Kayyem in The Boston Globe
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