in as horrific and tragic a manner as any terrorist has ever had a wet dream over.
They are bad, sure, Should we ignore them? We can't, and we have to "respond", but I just can't figure out where pretentiousness and arrogance give a strategic advantage. 
They learn from us. Are learning from us. Today. Not like we used to do the bad things but learned not to, so we can tell them that we have found a better way. We haven't. We throw a white veil of purity over our actions and pretend they aren't as harmful to others. And our children's children will be paying the prices.
We have good reasons. Like "body count". Or euphemisms for piss-poor planning, like "collateral damage".
Still. Despite a football stadium full of chest beaters and displays of bravado, everyone shooting, the carnage is now spreading to new places.
We invited a young woman to the White House. She had been disfigured by "terrorists", but she didn't go on about how mean they were. Instead she intends to stop it, and her lesson was short and to the point.
"Guns kills terrorists. Education kills terrorism".
The saddest and perhaps most ironic part of the whole thing is that everyone assumed she meant the terrorists were the ones who needed to do the learning.
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