[MarMema]

I think Rachel made her bed. I recall that her "friends" seemed to be more eager to take a thousand pictures of her than to offer her comfort.

Those people were no different than the ones making videos today while they behead people.

Don't ask me to have compassion for those who support and collect for terrorists.

Instead I recall the woman who was near the suicide bomber and missing an arm and lay there listening to her infant in a stroller scream from being burned. But she could not get up and go comfort her own child.

[Askel5]

I think Rachel made her bed. I recall that her "friends" seemed to be more eager to take a thousand pictures of her than to offer her comfort.

This wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Those people were no different than the ones making videos today while they behead people.

I'm not sure this follows. Again, I think you need to consider all manner of objective criteria when evaluating an event used to recalibrate the public's emotions ... particularly where the inciting of hate for "good cause" or dehumanizing of others is concerned.

Was the event premeditated or planned?
Was the event timed to coincide with an election or in retribution (such as Sadat's assassination)?
How was the event publicized and by whom?
What telltale signs exists where the potential funding and/or training of the ops were concerned?

I think if you err on the side of keeping a level head -- doing your weeping, recovering your balance and only then proceeding to pick apart the event -- you get much better and more reliable answers to these questions.

Don't ask me to have compassion for those who support and collect for terrorists.

What, exactly, is your definition of "terror," MarMema?

I don't expect ANYONE to sympathize with those who fund terrorists. But, on the other hand, I don't pick and choose among the terrorists I decry. I find all political murder -- even that now explicitly sanctioned by our government instead of occuring under cover of black ops -- immoral.

Instead I recall the woman who was near the suicide bomber and missing an arm and lay there listening to her infant in a stroller scream from being burned. But she could not get up and go comfort her own child.

There's no defending such things. But again, I think it pays to analyze in a purely objective fashion who REALLY stands to gain from the perpetual conflict. Someone must -- and it sure ain't the Palestinians -- else it would not continue.

And, as part of that analysis, it sure couldn't hurt to have a looksee at who among us has consistently advocated perpetual conflict and who among us has consistently repeated that "The Revolution makes no sense without Terror."

As a bonus, I'd also check into who has funded exactly these people -- whether it be Lenin's bars of gold or IMF protection payments.