Over at the New York Times, Russian novelist Sergey Kuznetsov ruminates on the recent subway bombings in a column called “Moscow Under Attack.” If someone had detonated a couple of bombs in the DC Metro, I think I’d be as upset as Sergey, but his big line, “In the end, nobody knows who is responsible for this attack. They have simply reminded Muscovites: Evil exists, and horror is always right beside you,” falls a little flat for me.
Even without the bombings, President Putin (actually, former President Putin, of course) has supplied plenty of evil all on his own, and he’s still at it, while here in the USA, President Obama presides serenely over a “Slaughter the Innocents” policy, restricted to foreign lands, of course. The Islamic terrorists are a bloody, despicable crew. It’s too bad that our President finds it politically convenient to approach their standards so closely.
