Berlin, December 20, 2016
It is now 4:00 p.m. on December 20, 2016—almost exactly 20 hours after the horrific act in which the perpetrator (or perpetrators) drove a truck into the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, killing at least 12 people and injuring 48 others, many of them seriously. Whatever the exact motives behind this act may have been, the deed itself is abhorrent and despicable. My thoughts are with the victims and their families. And yet, if this does turn out to be a terrorist attack—as it sadly appears—then we must all take a step back and resist the all-too-human reaction of anger…
