It could very well be that he in fact holds these reasons for honest reasons and truly believes them. But at the same time the opposition (IS) <i>also</i> believe all kinds of stuff for reasons held dear to them and the populace are caught - literally - in the crossfire.<p>I&#x27;d rather see some more introspection and a bit less clamoring for more budget and fewer restrictions from the intelligence community after this attack. And it is not as if this is the first spectacular failure of the intelligence services when it comes to actually preventing this sort of thing either (Which does not surprise me because I strongly believe that it is fundamentally impossible to protect an open society against these kinds of attacks without a substantial change of that society, after which we could probably no longer call it &#x27;open&#x27;).