"We're not just Monday morning quarterbacking here" said one the Foxnews presentators last Friday night while he and his team were tv news show styling and profiling through the paralising minutes which seemed like hours ahead of the capture of the boy probably guilty of attempting to terrorize Bostoners along with many people in other places.
It was a while since I last spend some time watching American news channels, but this past Friday night I sought to switch from the translated coverage on my local newschannel to get as close to the source as possible.
Once again (as observed in an earlier post "La donna é mobile" in respect of hurricane Sandy) it is impressive to observe how an apparatus of professional and civil human and technological resources is put into action, along with all the less visible back up intelligence.
After such a collective effort, involving pretty much everyone inside a (digital) community, it is only natural the quick conclusion is shared and celebrated. It fascinates me, however, that the celebration drives people into the street to shout out the name of their country. I do not recall observing similar reactions at, for instance, the Madrid or London subway bombings or the Oslo /Utoya attack.
In another previous post ("Peace of mind") ahead of the nobel peace prize awarding, I noted the increasing threat to civilized democratic and generally free societies, coming from apparent but anything but common individuals living amongst us.
Of course at times like these, we are angered and it is only natural that we try to put a face on an enemy hidden amongst us.
Looking forward, I am not sure how relevant it will be for this threatening trend whether such "persons" are self-tutored anti-social internetnerds or brainwashed trainees produced on site by some terrorist group.
All sources need to be dealt with in an as preventive manner possible. Wherever a case is turned into something more, hinting or even insisting national populations stand on two opposite sides of a potential wider conflict, that would appear to be Monday morning quarterbacking and may very well keep the popular tensity more alive than need be. But then again, I have never fully understood American football.
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