I am equating the reaction of people on either side.
You are apply a moral distinction, where from their perspective, there isn’t one.
They are not stupid—they know they could never compete with us on the field. So they fight a war of terrorism. THIS attack is a victory for them, at least in their eyes.
We can be outraged at their reaction. But lets not be surprised.
Well, here’s part of our difference. To you, these are some weird people you don’t ever see, an abstraction that occasionally visits your television screen.
To me, these are people that I have working in my house, that seem friendly and decent, and do a good job cleaning, or installing a new gas range and light fixture. But I can never ever really trust or like them, because for all I know they then go home and do some wild dance of joy over my fellow Jews, or fellow Americans in the case of Orlando, being murdered in the most cowardly, ignoble manner imaginable. Maybe they’d do the same dance over me and mine. But they come in, I pick up a bit of colloquial Arabic from them, they try their English out on me, I serve them coffee, and continue to relate to them as if they are friends or at least amiable acquaintances.
It’s all illusion, or maybe not. Maybe they are from a town, clan or tribe that isn’t into these obscene celebrations, that is relieved to work among Jews who treat them right, and I just don’t get it because my knowledge of Arabs is limited at best.
I don’t! They struck first.
I lost a friend on 9/11. Also had a Syrian officemate for about five years.
OK. I follow what you mean here.
And it does enrage me every time I see a celebration rejoicing in the death of civilians.
The celebrants should be mindful that there can come a point where this country can become outraged such that their civilians become a target too. Just ask the Germans and Japanese.