"A terrorist attack is like a national Rorschach test. Everybody sees in it what they want — usually something that proves a point they've been making all along," the article by Doyle McManus published by the Los Angeles Times reads.
According to the author, the idea that the attackers were Muslim jihadists was expressed before they were actually identified.
The author notes that the issue led to vehement criticism of US immigration system. "Why did the current system allow two individuals to immigrate to the United States from the Chechen Republic in Russia, an area known as a hotbed of Islamic extremism, who then committed acts of terrorism?" the author cites Republican Senator Rand Paul as saying.
"Were the Tsarnaevs acting at the behest of foreign terrorists? Did they deceive the U.S. immigration system? Could their intentions have been detected ahead of time by a more vigilant FBI? And did we lose anything by reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights on Monday?" the author writes
"We don't know yet. We could always wait to find out. But for anyone with a cause to push, a talking point is a terrible thing to waste," he concludes.
