The attack in Boston fills the news and a common thread runs through our thoughts: "Why here, why in the heartland city of America?" Such questions are an essential part of terror precisely because they have no reasonable answer, as Lenin said during the Russian revolution, "The point of terror is to be unknowable. The point of terror is terror."
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