The Meaning of Faisal 'Rorschach' Shahzad
It is fascinating to me how both liberals and conservatives are using the story of Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber (as well as the story of Nidal Malik Hassan, the Ft. Hood shooter, among others), as a kind of springboard to launch into all sorts of extraneous and sometimes comical disquisitions about the Larger Meaning of his (thankfully incompetent) act. On the left, the news that Shahzad's Connecticut home was in foreclosure has led at least a couple of commentators to argue that the country's financial crisis, and not, say, jihadist ideology, is at the root of Shahzad's desire to commit murder in Times Square. On the right, Shahzad's alleged act has become proof (not that certain commentators needed proof) that no Muslim in America can be trusted.
The weirdest commentary I've seen on the left so far has come from Ezra Klein, who wrote that Shahzad's story is "a reminder that foreclosures generate an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and depression that can tip people into all sorts of dangerous behaviors that don't make headlines but do ruin lives. And for all that we've done to save the financial sector, we've not done nearly enough to help struggling homeowners."
I agree, of course, that we have not done nearly enough to help struggling homeowners. But I would also point out that of the millions of Americans in foreclosure,
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