Helping Peter Canellos to See

The Globe’s Washington bureau chief, Peter Canellos, writes on this September 12:

But it's hard to see terrorism as anything other than a tactic, serving many different ideologies and agendas.

Some 'tactic'.

Actually, Peter, it's not difficult to see this as other than a tactic. A helpful hint: remove your head from wherever you have buried it, and open your eyes.