Thousands who sweated and strained so long to train young bodies for excellence are overwhelmed in the national mind (who actually won the Marathon?) by the evil of one soul (certainly no more than a handful) exploding pressure cookers stuffed with nails and ball bearings.
The lopsided imbalance of life and death in Boston can never be redressed, despite the President’s emphasis on the courage of victims and responders as the search for the guilty goes on.
There can be no balancing of the books with retribution for such mindless murders and maiming, no matter what the identity or motives of whoever caused it.
The low-tech trappings suggest “amateur” terrorists rather than organized, but there is little consolation in considering how much worse the toll might have been at the hands of such as those who perpetrated 9/11.
In an interconnected world, there is at least faint hope of detecting in advance the movements of many. From dark minds with knapsacks, there is nothing.
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