If this was an attack from abroad I believe we would already know, because foreign terrorist groups always rush to claim credit. I also think there are many Americans who, in their heart of hearts, want this to be a foreign attack, because the implications of this as a domestic attack recalibrate things in a disconcerting way. I remember the failed attack in Spokane where a white separatist group left a bomb in a backpack along the route of a MLK parade ... that was the first thing that came to mind in this case, not Saudis. These folks show they have experience with bomb making, and, as in Timothy McVeigh's case, have military background ... so even if the bomb has the signature of an IED found in Afghanistan or Iraq, that doesn't remove domestic terrorism from the equation.
One additional thing, whomever did this needs to have been classified as terrorists under the broad definition of the word, and should be treated exactly the same way an Al Qeada terrorist would be once identified. We can't be sentimental if these villains turnout to be Americans, and if they are Americans, and want to play Ruby Ridge Second Amendment Games ... cook them to the ground with airstrikes. Don't give them the pleasure of a gunfight.
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