An interesting take in the NYT (today):
Interesting to call a spade a spade. And the media's failure to address it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/opinion/07brooks.html
This cult attaches itself to a political cause but parasitically strangles it. The death cult has strangled the dream of a Palestinian state. The suicide bombers have not brought peace to Palestine; they've brought reprisals. The car bombers are not pushing the U.S. out of Iraq; they're forcing us to stay longer. The death cult is now strangling the Chechen cause, and will bring not independence but blood.
But that's the idea. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.
Interesting to call a spade a spade. And the media's failure to address it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/opinion/07brooks.html