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Now they’re coming after children. It’s an added horror that the Manchester terror attack targeted young girls leaving an Ariana Grande concert. ISIS, in claiming responsibility, labeled the event “a gathering of the Crusaders.”

“Crusaders”? Of the 22 dead, the youngest so-far-identified victim was all of 8 years old. And many of the 59 wounded were teens and pre-teens.

This was a deliberate massacre of innocents, the deadliest attack in the UK since the 7/7 train bombings.

Also horrifying is the news that the suicide bomber, 22-year-old Salman Abedi, was known to British security services and was UK-born.

That makes him the latest in an evergrowing number of “known wolves” — in both America and Europe — who’d committed acts of terror after appearing on authori- ties’ radar. The list includes the perps in some of the deadliest attacks — Paris, Boston, Orlando . . .

That raises serious questions about investigators’ judgment. And the mounting death toll puts a very hollow ring to politicians’ standard post-attack promises of “tightened security” and calls for “greater vigilance.”

But the greatest danger rests in the push for complacency. BBC anchor Katty Kay, for one, told MSNBC that “Europe is getting used to attacks like this. They have to, because we are never going to be able to totally wipe this out.”

Sorry: The answer is not to stop being enraged at meaningless slaughter and those who perpetrate it. That’s why we’re so outraged at the use of the Puerto Rican Day Parade to honor an unrepentant terrorist.

There’s no more self-defeating response to terrorism than to normalize it.