Inhuman rage and warped world view of stupid Boston marathon bombers
Two embittered young men and a couple of dirt-cheap bombs was enough to shake the most powerful nation on earth to its core
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For a vivid close-up of the banality of evil and for a horribly revealing look inside the mind of a murderer, you can do no better than the Twitter feed of the surviving Boston Bomber.March 14, 2012 – a decade in America already. I want out.September 1, 2012 – Idk (I don’t know) why it’s hard for many of you to accept that 9/11 was an inside job.March 13, 2013 – Never try to fork a mini tomato while wearing a white shirt, it will explode.April 10, 2013 – Gain knowledge, get women, acquire currency.April 15, 2013 – Ain’t no love in the heart of the city.If we wish to make sense of the senseless, if we want to understand an act of mass murder that seems beyond all human understanding, then the Twitter feed of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – @J_tsar – had it all.Alienation. Self-pity. Self-delusion. Frustrated ambition. Rage. And stupidity – plenty of stupidity.A lot of young men lead frustrated lives. Many immigrants to the West inevitably discover that the promised land is not all it is cracked up to be.The American dream does not guarantee happiness – only the pursuit of happiness.For Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the dream remained elusively out of reach.Instead, they discovered the comforts of global jihad – a warped world view that insisted the evil West was to blame for everything and justice would be served if they planted two devastating bombs among innocent men, women and children – many children – who were enjoying the Boston Marathon.America reached out to the brothers Tsarnaev.The young one, Dzhokhar, was made an American citizen last year – ironically enough, on September 11.Citizenship for the older brother, Tamerlan, remained harder to get because he had a conviction for beating up a woman.And big brother had other frustrations – his boxing career had peaked and he complained that he had no American friends.Two frustrated little men discovered a cause that made them feel righteous, important, powerful – although that makes their filthy act sound somehow understandable.And it is not.Martin Richard, age eight. Lingzi Lu, 23. Krystle Campbell, 29.A little boy, a young Chinese student and a woman described as “vibrant, loving, beautiful and too young to die”.And – dead from multiple gunshot wounds as he sat in his patrol car – rookie cop, Sean Collier, 26. These are the dead.Then there are the 180 unknown Bostonian men, women and children with what are euphemistically referred to as “injuries”.Limbs missing. Brain damage. Multiple shrapnel wounds. Bodies and minds ripped apart forever.Those are the unimaginable injuries the Tsarnaev brothers left in their wake.The waste is beyond comprehension.What Western crime is avenged by the murder and maiming of so many innocent men, women and children?What god is placated by seeing so many families and so many lives torn to pieces?From his hospital bed, after failing to shoot himself in the head, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said that the bombings were revenge for Iraq.Doesn’t he know that Iraq was the West’s cack-handed response to the mass murder of 9/11?Doesn’t he know how cretinous he sounds?Two embittered young men and a couple of dirt-cheap bombs – and it was enough to shake the most powerful nation on earth to its core.Boston was America’s first real taste of home-grown Islamic terror.In our country, we had the bombings on London public transport on July 7, 2005 that left 52 dead and 700 injured.But Boston taught us something we are perhaps only starting to realise in both the US and the UK.You have to feel some love and respect for the country you live in.Even if your dreams fail to come true, you have to have some shared sense of common humanity with your fellow citizens.There has to be integration. There has to be gratitude.To place a bomb next to an excited eight-year-old child and his family is the act of someone who does not see his fellow countrymen as human.Boston was the product of two cruel, pathetic little creeps who didn’t like the way their lives had panned out in America.But we need to keep Islamic terror in perspective.After all, our grandparents and parents lived in the world of Hitler and Stalin and nuclear superpowers staring each other down.What is special about our time? Only this.Never in history have a handful of embittered, ungrateful losers built such mountains of human misery.
Two embittered young men and a couple of dirt-cheap bombs was enough to shake the most powerful nation on earth to its core
. For a vivid close-up of the banality of evil and for a horribly revealing look inside the mind of a murderer, you can do no better than the Twitter feed of the surviving Boston Bomber.March 14, 2012 – a decade in America already. I want out.September 1, 2012 – Idk (I don’t know) why it’s hard for many of you to accept that 9/11 was an inside job.March 13, 2013 – Never try to fork a mini tomato while wearing a white shirt, it will explode.April 10, 2013 – Gain knowledge, get women, acquire currency.April 15, 2013 – Ain’t no love in the heart of the city.If we wish to make sense of the senseless, if we want to understand an act of mass murder that seems beyond all human understanding, then the Twitter feed of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – @J_tsar – had it all.Alienation. Self-pity. Self-delusion. Frustrated ambition. Rage. And stupidity – plenty of stupidity.A lot of young men lead frustrated lives. Many immigrants to the West inevitably discover that the promised land is not all it is cracked up to be.The American dream does not guarantee happiness – only the pursuit of happiness.For Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the dream remained elusively out of reach.Instead, they discovered the comforts of global jihad – a warped world view that insisted the evil West was to blame for everything and justice would be served if they planted two devastating bombs among innocent men, women and children – many children – who were enjoying the Boston Marathon.America reached out to the brothers Tsarnaev.The young one, Dzhokhar, was made an American citizen last year – ironically enough, on September 11.Citizenship for the older brother, Tamerlan, remained harder to get because he had a conviction for beating up a woman.And big brother had other frustrations – his boxing career had peaked and he complained that he had no American friends.Two frustrated little men discovered a cause that made them feel righteous, important, powerful – although that makes their filthy act sound somehow understandable.And it is not.Martin Richard, age eight. Lingzi Lu, 23. Krystle Campbell, 29.A little boy, a young Chinese student and a woman described as “vibrant, loving, beautiful and too young to die”.And – dead from multiple gunshot wounds as he sat in his patrol car – rookie cop, Sean Collier, 26. These are the dead.Then there are the 180 unknown Bostonian men, women and children with what are euphemistically referred to as “injuries”.Limbs missing. Brain damage. Multiple shrapnel wounds. Bodies and minds ripped apart forever.Those are the unimaginable injuries the Tsarnaev brothers left in their wake.The waste is beyond comprehension.What Western crime is avenged by the murder and maiming of so many innocent men, women and children?What god is placated by seeing so many families and so many lives torn to pieces?From his hospital bed, after failing to shoot himself in the head, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said that the bombings were revenge for Iraq.Doesn’t he know that Iraq was the West’s cack-handed response to the mass murder of 9/11?Doesn’t he know how cretinous he sounds?Two embittered young men and a couple of dirt-cheap bombs – and it was enough to shake the most powerful nation on earth to its core.Boston was America’s first real taste of home-grown Islamic terror.In our country, we had the bombings on London public transport on July 7, 2005 that left 52 dead and 700 injured.But Boston taught us something we are perhaps only starting to realise in both the US and the UK.You have to feel some love and respect for the country you live in.Even if your dreams fail to come true, you have to have some shared sense of common humanity with your fellow citizens.There has to be integration. There has to be gratitude.To place a bomb next to an excited eight-year-old child and his family is the act of someone who does not see his fellow countrymen as human.Boston was the product of two cruel, pathetic little creeps who didn’t like the way their lives had panned out in America.But we need to keep Islamic terror in perspective.After all, our grandparents and parents lived in the world of Hitler and Stalin and nuclear superpowers staring each other down.What is special about our time? Only this.Never in history have a handful of embittered, ungrateful losers built such mountains of human misery.