Think like the enemy: The scariest thing about Brussels (Simon Jenkins, the Guardian)
Think like the enemy. Lets suppose I am an Islamic State terrorist. I dont do 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, 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. Famous politicians dropped everything to shower me with cliches. Crowned heads deluged me with glorious odium.
I measure my success in column inches and television hours, in ballooning security budgets, butchered liberties, amended laws and my ultimate goal
Muslim persecuted and recruited to our cause. I deal not in actions but in
reactions.
I am a manipulator of politics. I work through the idiocies of my supposed enemies...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/24/scariest-brussels-reactoin-paranoid-politicians-isis-atrocity-belgium