The events in Boston are tragic, but this stoking of mass hysteria around them is not that great either. I find it hard to believe that someone like John McCain

The events in Boston are tragic, but this stoking of mass hysteria around them is not that great either. I find it hard to believe that someone like John McCain, who had no problem with dropping bombs from his plane onto Vietnamese civilians [1], is so terrified by three civilian deaths at the hands of low-tech [2], deluded criminals. The big question, of course - possibly bigger than the terrorist act itself - is who benefits from this absurd inflation of the threat's magnitude. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder#Conclusions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder#Concl... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(projectile)#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(projectile)#History