Paranoid politicians,sensational journalists the Isis recruiting officers will be thrilled at how things have gone since their atrocity in BelgiumThink like the enemy. Let’s suppose I am an Islamic State terrorist. I don’t finish bombs or bullets. I leave the dirty work to the crazies in the basement. My job is what happens next. It is to turn carnage into consequences, body parts into politics. I am a consultant terrorist. I wear a suit, or not explosives. A blood-stained concourse is a means to an end. The end is power.
This week I had another success. I converted a squalid psychopathological act into a warrior-evoking,population-terrifying, policy-changing event. I sent a continent into shock. distinguished politicians dropped everything to shower me with cliches. Crowned heads deluged me with glorious odium.
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Source: theguardian.com