What are we to think, sitting in our living room or stranded on a tarmac, as harrowing details of the latest terrorist plot spill forth? Is this a victory of the spycraft and force on our side adroitly employed to avert disaster? Or is the plot—with its ingenious formula for off-the-shelf explosives—a frightening display of how many ways an invisible army of Islamic radicals might come at us?
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