Because I seem to be doing little else but quoting other people, Chris Colin of Salon writes: And asking people what’s next is a little like pressing squirrels about Heisenberg.

I don’t know what the consequences of last Tuesday’s attack will be, and I can only guess at the full extent of our military’s retaliation, but in all this talk of what has happened, and what will happen, where is the national discussion of why this has happened?