Terror, from a different vantage point

The Tamil Tigers, a separatist group in Sri Lanka, remind us here that not all suicide bombers are Muslim. As some savvy terrorism experts have noted, suicide bombs tend to be the domain of people protesting an occupation. That's why Palestinians tend to be suiciders but not Iranians, though the latter are even more religious than the former.

Interestingly, the U.S. response involved advice that we would do well to heed ourselves:

The United States condemned Monday's attack, but encouraged the government to find a political solution. "Only a political solution, not further violence, can provide a way forward to ending the country's deadly conflict," the U.S. Embassy said in a statement.

Imagine if we took that more seriously throughout the Mideast and South Asia, rather than posturing about how "talking to enemies" would undercut us.

How fascinating to see our clear-headedness when we are not the ones immediately under threat.