Stockholm insanity

THE people of Stockholm, despite their high-minded commitment to liberalism and tolerance, may not be in a mood this morning to split hairs about how those who carry out terror attacks are described.

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.