[mvpel]

It bothers me that they keep refering to this bomb as small. Any pedestrian that would have been walking by could have been killed or severely injured by this blast.

By the standards of Iraq or Israel, it was, in fact, a "small" bomb. Using an appropriate adjective doesn't imply that it's not a bomb or not potentially lethal.

Here's what a "not-small" terrorist bomb does:

[DoughtyOne]

When the abortion clinic in the south was attacked a few years ago, the bomb was no more menacing than this one, but I’ll bet you don’t find one reference to it as ‘small’.

What I object to is the overplay with regard to one incident and the downplaying of another.

The recruiting office was not a ‘protected’ target. Thus it’s attack was small. The attack on the clinic was serious and a real threat.

That’s my take on it.