I remember traveling at night by train with my parents, and at dawn we came through a major city, which had been bombed that night. Most high rise buildings had only one or two walls left standing. Bathtubs were hanging suspended in the air by their waterpipe connection, high up with all of the floors below it gone. It was eerie seeing the smoldering wreckage of so many huge buildings in the early dawn. And yet, the country kept functioning.
People are tough.
This attack should strengthen our resolve and stop the party line, destructive policies in Washington, which handicap the President. It should be a wakeup call that not everyone in the world wants peace. There are those who have exactly the opposite goal. We must get rid of our childish naivete, which basically says that if we are nice, then everyone else will be nice too. We must be much choosier as to whom we let into the country, either as a visitor or an immigrant.