BOSTON – If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer almost certainly does not lie in Dagestan, where the brothers lived before moving to the United States, or in the two wars fought in Chechnya in the last 20 years. Instead, a key to the Tsarnaevs’ behavior may perhaps be found in developments in England 500 years ago.
波士顿——如果想了解波士顿马拉松赛爆炸案嫌疑人塔梅兰和焦哈尔·察尔纳耶夫的恐怖动机，肯定不能从两兄弟移民美国前居住的达吉斯坦、以及过去20年车臣爆发的那两场战争中寻找原因。相反，500年前英国的发展或许可以提供察尔纳耶夫所作所为的关键解释。