It now appears, as some had predicted from the start, that the husband and wife who carried out the brutal massacre（大屠杀）in San Bernardino were motivated not by disgruntlement over workplace slights, but by Islamic extremism. According to the FBI, Tashfeen Malik — who, with her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, killed 14 people and injured 21 more at an office holiday party on Wednesday — had pledged her allegiance to Islamic State（伊斯国） on Facebook. There's no indication so far that she or her husband were directed to launch the attack by the group. But given the pledge — and the assault weapons, pipe bombs and other explosives the couple was stockpiling, as well as the contacts discovered between Farook and terrorist groups — the evidence strongly supports the assumption that the two were self-radicalized independent operators inspired to action by rhetoric, terror and violence abroad.
If so, the war has come home. Not for the first time, of course. Before this, there were September 11 and Fort Hood, the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston and plenty of other attempts to bring the battles of the Middle East and the Islamic world across the Atlantic. But the fight against Islamic State — a group with a particularly warped interpretation of Islam that, in addition to capturing territory in Syria（叙利亚）and Iraq, took credit for last month's attacks in Paris — may now have appeared at our doorstep. Can anyone imagine that this will be the last such attack in the name of that group and that there won't be copycat killers or other self-appointed Islamic militants seeking glory? Law enforcement officials have long warned that Islamic State has what New York Police Commissioner（署长） William Bratton called a "diffuse, lone wolf model, which encourages unaffiliated independent operators to do whatever damage they can with whatever is at hand."
It is entirely reasonable at a time like this to reconsider the policies that make us safe and to consider any steps to minimize the likelihood of further bloodshed.
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