AUSTIN BAY ON BALI:

Based on the public outrage in Indonesia, however, in Southeast Asia and internationally, JI’s latest murder binge is anything but a victory for jihadist terror. These reactions suggest that, since 2002, “something has changed” — and the change has not been in Al-Qaida’s strategic favor. . . .

But something larger seems to be at work. One indication is the overall tone of news coverage and public reaction — call it anger with a shrug. While terrorist apologist and British MP George Galloway may yet sally forth with “root causes” rhetoric and anti-American agitprop, at the moment, the latest Bali blast has not produced demands that the world “understand what the terrorists want.” Everyone knows the jihadists want to sow fear.

Fear, however, doesn’t seem to sell as easily as it did.

Nope.