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THE BALI BOMBING naturally stimulated discussion about its origins. Was it targeted at us because we had been backing the USA? Was it targeted at Indonesians or Australians? Was it directed at Bali as a heathen cesspit full of pleasure-seeking infidels? Or as an example of obscene Western wealth? And so on.
Although plausible explanations can be advanced, I believe seeking rational answers is fundamentally misguided. When September 11 occurred, one US journalist rightly described it as "metaphysical terrorism", that is, the perpetrators did it because they were consumed with self-induced hatred and rage, because killing is their vocation, because it is in their ...