After the Dust Settles

We still don't everything about last week's bobmbing in Boston or what the motives of the Tsarnaev brothers might have been. In addition to investigating this one incident we should also have an inqury as to whether there was some intelligence failure or what we can do better to prevent another incident like this. We don't need any posturing nonsense from Repub pols like John McCain or Lindsay Graham who want Dzhokar Tsarnaev to be declared an "enemy combatant." Such a move would declare that America is a "war zone," and would do nothing to correct the problem. We should also resist any tendecny to engage in Isalmophobia or Chechenophobia. The situation calls for good old American coolness.