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For every one of those attacks that makes a big splash it sets off a squabble driving a wedge deeper between the left & the right as we see is happening right now. The attack is serious enough it gets serious notice, but not serious enough to make people think it serious.

In addition, it causes people to be more distrustful of honest Muslims (and YES I do believe most just want to left alone to grow & prosper). I have good relations with a Pakistani fellow in town here (don’t see each other all that often owns/runs our former neighborhood’s mini-mart) but all of this stuff has put a bug in my head about him. I don’t know if that was Hassan’s intent (I think it was just to kill as many soldiers as possible) but that is a real effect.