On this week’s edition of KCRW’s “Left, Right & Center,” Truthdig editor in chief Robert Scheer calls for “old-fashioned” police work in response to Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Brussels that killed at least 31.

Special guest Steve Clemons of The Atlantic recalls arriving at the Brussels airport terminal minutes after bombs went off. Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez says presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s call to “patrol and secure” Muslim neighborhoods in America is merely “identity politics used for a political standpoint.” Josh Barro of Business Insider also weighs in.

Also, what is the significance of Obama’s trip to Cuba? Should we expect this opening to change Cuban society?

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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