Stockholm insanity
The relatives of those murdered in the Swedish capital are not preoccupied this morning with a simple question: Is the person who drove the truck, and killed their loved ones, a lone-wolf terrorist, acting alone in the name of a remote cause, or are they just another one of the sad, unstable, and dangerous people stalking the fringes of society?
By describing them as a terrorist, we bolster whatever fascist cause claims their evil actions. Unrelenting and frighteningly successful efforts to rewrite our history, to describe terrorist campaigns as war, show how important this issue is.
Irrespective of its roots, the Stockholm attack was appalling, but we should not, even in our anger, deepen the cut by always imagining these attacks as part of a grand scheme to destroy our way of life.
Some terrorists may be lunatics, but not all lunatics are terrorists.
