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All politics, as Karl Schmidt observed, is about the choice between friend and foe. Thomas Jefferson, however, used a category above that of a foe, hostis humani generis (enemy of the humankind), to describe terrorists, hostage-takers and all those who
It took Vladimir Putin days before he conceded that the terror attack on a concert hall in Crocus near Moscow was the work of ISIS operatives from Central Asia. Yet, he continued to fly his earlier kite about Ukraine being responsible. The claim in the sense the Russian leader intends it is too ridiculous to merit rebuttal. Nevertheless, examined from other angles it contains more than a grain of truth.
When President Vladimir Putin said "radical Islamists" had carried out the attack, he called it "just an element in a series of attempts of those who have been at war with our country since 2014," an explicit reference to Ukraine and the upheaval that year that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea.
On March 22, at approximately 19:55 Moscow time, a group of at least 4 assailants approached the Crocus City Hall
The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. Along with grinding poverty, Tajikistan is rife with religious tensions. Hard-line Islamists…