The Times wrote:The shadow of terrorism fell across Indonesia again this morning when at least eight people, including some foreigners, were killed and at least 50 were injured in two large explosions at luxury hotels in Jakarta.
The near simultaneous explosions occurred at about 8am in the Ritz-Carlton and in the nearby JW Marriott, the hotel where 12 people were killed and 150 injured in a suicide bombing almost six years ago.
What can you say that hasn't been said before? The worldwide effort to not only hunt down but protect ourselves from terrorist threats surely has to have made some strides and we could point to the foiled bombing plot in London a few years back as proof of that, but then something like this happens and it reminds us that this scourage of humanity isn't going anywhere. I don't think we can ever truly defeat terrorists or the concept of terrorism anymore than we can prevent murder, theft and violence in general in society but hopefully we can continue to better arm ourselves against events like this.
