Tamerlane killed millions of people. Scholars estimate that his military campaigns caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population.
Were these two citizens? It appears they were on student visas that they overstayed.
Tamerlan was married. Here is a story about her.
I am waiting and watching this story. It seems to me it is more complicated, in both the execution of the crime, and it’s timing, than two random, uncontrolled kids. They feel more like a sleeper cell, activated for a purpose. Was the handler the Saudi the Obama Administration immediately allowed to escape the country?
It is also clear to me that we already have plenty of safeguards in place. These two, if they are not citizens, should have been deported the moment it became clear they were not students, and particularly once we were told by the Russians that they were implicated in Islamist terror.
As context, more people were killed in Chicago by illegal guns the week of the bombing than were killed in Boston. As I have said before, the category of “terrorist” is no different in principle than that of criminal, with the vast difference that its use POLITICALLY is vastly different. It makes for effective propaganda.
Finally: you have forgotten that a nuclear armed power was threatening to fire nuclear missiles at us, haven’t you?