Two guys from the Russian Caucasus region, they seem to think

Boston manhunt

Born Chechens, raised in Kazakhstan.

I have long thought and several times written we ought to be working closely with the Russians against Muslim terrorism.

But though the cold war is long over, Washington’s elites prefer to continue to regard the Russians as bad guys, enemies, and global rivals if not opponents.

They have a better attitude toward China, though that country is in fact more of a rival in its region and is still controlled by the ancient enemy, its communist party.

As for Syria, for example, we should be with the Russians quietly supporting Assad rather than the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels with whom Russian Muslim terrorists are also, of course affiliated.

But the Democrats really prefer not to admit how high up on our threat list Muslim terrorism should be – or how low most other matters should be – and the Republicans just can’t stomach palling around with the Ruskies.

Per the story,

A statement from the office of Chechnya's president echoed that: "According to preliminary information, coming from the relevant agencies, the Tsarnaev family moved many years ago out of Chechnya to another Russian region," press secretary Alvi Kamirov told Russia's semi-official Interfax news agency.

"After that they lived for some time in Kazakhstan, and from there went to the U.S. where the family members received a residence permit.

Therefore the individuals concerned did not live as adults in Chechnya."

There remains a lot nobody seems to know, yet.

Like whether there were only two, and what other targets there might be or have been.

What does this mean?

While I, like most Americans, am concerned about what else might surface about this attack, and about what the US can do to reach any others in other countries who might have been involved, the only apparent concern of American liberals since the moment of the explosions has been to prevent the US or the US right from harming Muslims.

For as long as they could they did everything they could to deny and delay attribution of the Boston Bombings to Muslims, though they appeared certain from the start the attacks were actually terrorism.

And, as far as that goes, though it is very likely it was terrorism, that point has not actually been established, to my knowledge, though the Boston police, the FBI, or others have said so.

Anyway, why is the first and last concern of liberals, the professional left, and the radical left not to protect and avenge Americans but to protect and justify those who have chosen us as enemies?

One can only be glad their influence on the Democratic Party in these matters is not what they would wish.