I think the score today in Belgium is 3-0 bad guys. If I can piece this together correctly, the subway bomb went off a WHOLE HOUR after the one at the airport.
I know it is people in shock and the following comment is not at all about them but makes the point, but in one of the videos of that attack at the airport had someone shouting after the blast "it's all right, it's all right". We still handle these things like that, while we are in shock we have no thought that there might be more than just one idiot.
They are way behind now in Paris and Belgium because they have whole communities in place where many won't turn in the bad guys. Pretty obvious who they think the bad guys really are.
Our values would say they are therefore with the bad guys. That is a real problem. Now we have 34 dead or more, no telling how many injured, and this could have been prevented with even modest community involvement.
How do you bring a community or a religion to account? Maybe they ought to run buses and let them go clean up the scene at the airport or something. Volunteer of course, but something to connect them to the consequences. Of course that isn't going to solve the problem, but some kind of engagement has to begin.
It is a combination of normalcy bias and trying to prevent panic. The latter would only have me look at them and shake my head.
We still handle these things like that, while we are in shock we have no thought that there might be more than just one idiot.
Was it any different on 9/11? When the second plane hit in NY, we knew it was an attack. Before that, it was 'How did they do that with clear weather and in broad daylight?' Terrorists take advantage of human nature if they are any good at what they do.
The embassy bombings in Africa used small bombs in vehicles in the streets to draw the curious to the Windows. After a delay, (long enough for people to get to the windows to see what was going on) the big explosions went off, shredding the curious.
How do you bring a community or a religion to account?
Evict them. Send them home by halves. One incident the first half goes, another incident the rest do. Either that or let God sort them.