Our response to the Brussels bombings requires patience and restraint | Simon Jenkins

Blanket media coverage and calls for revenge just fuel the cycle of violence

The purpose of terrorism is not to destroy or kill. It is to pursue a political cause through the massive publicity that is attached to terrifying incidents. Today’s bombs in Brussels, apparently related to the attacks in Paris last year and the capture of Salah Abdeslam last Friday, are patently intended to do just that. Merely killing passers-by serves no warlike purpose in itself. The explosive force derives from o...