Our demon lover.
These people willingly send their own children to their deaths simply to make a statement—to accomplish nothing but the murder of two Israeli civilians and signal their commitment to the fight. The fight against Islamic radicals always seems to come around to whether or not they can, in fact, be deterred, because it’s not clear that they are rational, at least not like us. But to wipe out a man’s entire family, it’s hard to imagine that doesn’t give his colleagues at least a moment’s pause. Perhaps it will make the leadership of Hamas rethink the wisdom of sparking an open confrontation with Israel under the current conditions.
That’s Michael Goldfarb, an editor of conservative organ The Weekly Standard, expressing his full-throated support of terrorism: so long, of course, as the victims of terror are people who do not reason like us, and willingly send children to their deaths, simply to signal their will to fight. —Can we do the right thing, and add his name to the ultra-top-secret terrorism watch list, along with those Quakers from Maryland? Can we train our BDOs to recognize and react to such dangerous levels of blind self-righteous smugness?
