EDITORIAL - America must not surrender democracy

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Like President Obama, this newspaper hopes that America will soon find out who is responsible for Monday's bombings in Boston and that they are made, as he puts it, "to feel the full weight of justice".
Yet, we appreciate the measured and methodical approach of the United States in getting the facts, rather than, as some would wish, a mad rush to pin responsibility on an easy suspect. For it is by such an approach, ensuring that the real culprits are the ones who are nabbed, that America will sustain its moral authority in the vanguard against global terrorism, of which it has been a major victim.
It is uncertain whether the perpetrators of Monday's atrocity were foreign, or foreign-inspired individuals or groups opposed to the United States, or domestic right-wing persons with a grouse against the government.