Four lessons from Boston

Ralph Peters writes at The New York Post,

don’t underestimate the appeal of butchering female athletes, who are almost as terrifying to Islamists as girls in bikinis.

My suggestion to the feds, if they want to understand why Tamerlan Tsarnaev turned to jihad? Check out this wife-beater’s love life. Scratch a terrorist, find a lonesome perv.

Last week, Islamist fanaticism scored a resounding victory on the cheap. The effectiveness of our manhunt didn’t change that.

Peters points out four lessons learned from Boston:

Lesson No. 1: Two amateur terrorists can paralyze a major American city for days.

Lesson No. 2: The best weapons against targets in the US are disaffected legal immigrants or radicalized native-born converts to jihad. Political correctness — a pathetic fanaticism of our own — and legal paralysis make it virtually impossible to stop legal residents such as the Tsarnaev brothers before they commit a crime.

Lesson No. 3: Our immigration system is one of terrorism’s best allies.

Lesson No. 4: The more open a society, the more targets it presents.