Radicalism is a disease of the mind. You cannot see it, hear it, feel it or know it exists until it is too late, as revellers in Nice enjoying Bastille Day fireworks found out on Thursday evening. As terrorists evolve strategies to attack innocent life with evermore creative methods, the global response remains mired in advancing techno-gadgetry that no longer gets the job done. François Molins, France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor, emphasised the point when he made clear that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who used a lorry to kill 84 people in Nice, had not shown up in any of the intelligence services’ databases.
激進主義是一種精神疾病。等你看見它、聽到它、感覺到它、知道它的存在時，一切已爲時過晚。上週四晚，正在法國尼斯欣賞國慶煙花表演的狂歡羣衆明白了這一點。恐怖分子襲擊無辜生命的策略在不斷演變，手段新穎，全球反應卻仍執念於發展那些已不再能應付反恐任務的高科技小發明。當法國負責反恐的檢察官弗朗索瓦•莫林斯(François Molins)明確表示穆罕默德•拉胡瓦傑•布哈勒(Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel)——駕駛卡車在尼斯殺死84名羣衆的凶手——從未出現在諜報機構的任何資料庫中，他着重指出了這種現狀。