The curious case of the Boston bombings

The curious case of the Boston bombings

April 23, 2013, 10:40 pm

As the public thirst for more information on the two Boston bombers is being satisfied by the omnipresent, but increasingly delinquent modern media, the “psychotic” version of the Boston tragedy is predictably fading.

The “leader” of the terrorist pair, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was obviously neither a ‘psycho’ nor a ‘loser’ in American parlance; awards for boxing, a beautiful American-born wife and numerous girlfriends – seems he blended right in.

His accomplice, 19-year-old US citizen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, appeared an even more promising case with his college education and a pack of American friends who stayed loyal to him even after his arrest. The case is almost symbolic: it smashes into the Western delusion that militant Islamism can be “cured” by access to free media, voting rights and “eradication of poverty.”

The brothers had it all. But the Tsarnaevs’ exposure to all these “Western values” did not prevent them from becoming killers.

This complex reality actually vindicates Russia’s pessimistic view of the so called Arab Spring (and of the “Islamic democratic revival” in general), which is still enthusiastically embraced by the US and many European powers.

The first day of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s interrogation was eventful. On that same day, Canadian authorities revealed that a plot of Islamist terrorists to blow up a train on its way from Toronto to New York City was foiled in Canada.

And on the other side of the planet, in Libya, local Islamist extremists blew up a car bomb near the French embassy, with several people injured but no casualties (although strangely enough a whole building was destroyed).

In all three cases, the actions of these Islamist extremists defy the Western logic that guided previous engagements and policy decisions of the Western powers.

The Chechen terrorists came to the US as refugees fleeing what the Western media portrayed as the “oppressive” (some even used the word “genocidal”) Russian regime.

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