Writing in The Times Online, Michael Grove explains (yet again — only he’s British, so he does it with that cool accent those dudes have) why “hopelessness” and desperation neither excuse nor ennoble terrorism:
The terrorist responsible for the bus bombing which killed 20 Israelis last Wednesday, Mohammed al-Ghoul, was explicit in his motivation. ‘How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy,’ he wrote immediately before he did just that, ‘how beautiful it is to kill and be killed.’ These are not the words of one in despair, but on the verge of exultation.
Al-Ghoul was not a wretched, hopeless, outcast but a student pursuing a master
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Have you noticed that the Burmese actually have it tougher than the Paleostinians? When was the last time you heard of a Shan exploding? Or Burundi? How about Burundi?
Can you see the headline: “Fit hits the Shan; Tutsis explode!”
It is familiar stuff for those of us that inhabit the blogosphere. It is not familiar stuff for British newspapers. It’s about bloody time.