I was thinking about this the other day - Everyone would claim to have won:
The left can crow that it was Caucasian American terrorists (thought hardly domestic) and the right can hoot that it’s Muslim Extremists.
The bottom line is that if anything this proves that Salon’s original article was incorrect: Our proportionality of response is not racist at all - It supports the argument of conservative thinking all along, and that’s that Islam itself is our existential threat, not the nationality, culture or color of the people who carried out the attacks. I would be as supportive of dropping a Hellfire on the Chechen mastermind’s hideout as I was of doing the same on a hut near Tora Bora.
The thing is Salon..CNN...Axelrod....Slate...many on the left drooled for was white..TEA party. That way they cold paint us not as political opponents but as enemies of the state.