At the scene of the …

At the scene of the Kuta bomb, bodies lay covered by bloodied blankets as police moved among crowds of onlookers using torches to pick their way through the gutted interior of the bomb-damaged restaurant.

In the hours following the attacks, the bodies lay on the darkened streets amid the shards of shattered glass, their last indignity covered by bloodied blankets.

Nearby lay more corpses, stretched out on the sand or placed roughly on the tables of the fish cafes which were turned into impromptu mortuary slabs by the actions of the bombers who ripped apart the night in this jewel of Bali’s tourism crown.

Supposedly, according to those who have been trying to get into their heads, these terrorists are against the United States’ Mideast policy. Is that why they keep bombing the largest Muslim country in the world? Should Indonesians start asking “Why do they hate us?” Or maybe, just maybe, it’s more emotional than political with them. Maybe they hate us just because. Just because we’re not them. Just because we don’t believe the things they do or in the way they do.

Maybe it’s their problem, and not ours to figure out. Their only weapon is force, and that’s the only response to it. Unless you want them to continue their ways.

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