We brought this on ourselves, and we are the terrorists, too

Within an hour or two of the bombings in Brussels Monday, it was plain that there were two stories worth reporting from this latest turn in what has become our global conflict. There was the news story—the boilerplate “who, what, when, where, why” of it—and then the story of how people all over the world reacted to these stunning events.In newsrooms across the planet, these two stories would have been slugged—identified by a simple name during the editorial process&