Behind the outbreak of violence in the United States is a lethal cocktail of psychosis, easy access to firearms and hateful ideologies (racism, misogyny, homophobia), that the killer has thrown together himself.
This time, the governor and the municipalities took some initiative. But at moments like these, the difference between wealth and poverty appears at its most raw.
The war in Iraq is reaching a turning point. The one in Afghanistan, too, but in the other direction. Neither Petraeus nor his successor wants to begin pulling away from the first in order to benefit the second.