YESTERDAY, terrorists exploded a car bomb at the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta. At least 13 people died; over a hundred were injured.
It was another failure for the terrorists.
Behind the breathless 24/7 reports and the images of burned cars and blown-out windows, the encouraging fact is that the bombing in Indonesia was the best the terrorists could do: They can’t defeat America, so they killed some folks having lunch.
He’s right. They would have preferred a nuclear bomb in Manhattan. Or at least a car-bomb outside Lutece.
UPDATE: Austin Bay has a somewhat less positive take on the subject.