&gt; So I guess the time to politicize these attacks has come already.<p>The attacks are <i>inherently</i> political, they can&#x27;t be &quot;politicized&quot;.<p>Now, its true that they are being exploited to push positions that those pointing to them were pushing long before the attacks, but it only makes sense to call that &quot;politicizing&quot; an event when the event itself isn&#x27;t political to start with (and, even them, &quot;politicizing&quot; isn&#x27;t really the issue, what these critiques usually try to do -- but only by implication -- is to suggest that the use of the event in the policy debate is disingenuous or shallow.)