It’s open season on soft targets. The “Jihadists” want nothing more than a Trump presidency so they are pulling out all the stops, and soft targets are easy, get good media coverage and are cheap (just costs the life of a couple easily replaceable suicide bombers).
This is what most analysts cannot guarantee, when it comes to polling and voter preferences…
Incidents unforeseen and fear-inducing. The bright side is that Trump is only capable of reassuring people he has already reassured. However non-Trumpers are different, and usually do not respond to the types of things which endear Trump to his Base.
Saying that he predicted Brexit (as a jab at Democrats) and then pronouncing that Brexit is good (negating the latter) may give people on the left side of the I.Q. curve a feeling of enthusiasm for Trump, but it causes grave misgivings for most of the rest of us.
The media plays up these attacks (in fact all mass killings) far, far too much. They are given these murderers far too much publicity. After all, don’t terrorists (i.e., murderers) want to terrorize? More publicity = more terror. I’ m not calling for censorship, just the use of good editorial judgement.
I can’t listen to NPR anymore, since they seem to revel in the gory details of mass murder.
I’ve also been surprised that these murderers don’t seem to care if they are killing unarmed fellow Muslims. I had thought there was a prohibition against the killing of innocent Muslims by other Muslims.
This is not really anything new for Bangladesh. And the foreign contingent there is quite small and well-known to anyone who wants to attack them. (Speaking as knowing someone who was posted there and had to leave because of apparently-credible bomb threats.)
Juan Cole’s take on this is very elucidating: