"Save your sanctimony for your corporate clientele."
Carlo, when it comes to undeterred self-righteousness, you've got us all beat here.
You don't have the faintest idea what I tell my clients.
We can endlessly discuss what the West has done wrong and why tit follows tat, but describing a bomb attack on British kids as some kind of deserved and provoked payback ... that is where you have lost me.
There are distinctions in evil and hideously wrong acts too, it's not all the same quagmire where you can mutter "tsk, tsk, tsk, they should not have started it ...", shrug shoulders and move on. Next thing you'll be saying is that the Holocaust, Dresden, Pear Harbour and Hiroshima are all on the same scale defying any differentiation - let me tell you: they're not. Sometimes, not "splitting hairs" gives you a bald view and even balder statements.
And I didn't think I'd see the day where voicing horror in a music-related forum about a terrorist attack at a pop music concert (with an audience consisting mostly of minors) would be perceived as a risque political statement either.
I just came from a Kiss gig where Paul Stanley asked the audience for a minute of silence re the victims in Manchester, receiving it too. Quite possibly, Paul Stanley's hen-and-egg analysis of what happens in the Mideast isn't as lucid and sharp as yours and Dave's, and we all know how Kiss are corporate cretins that somehow must also be blamed for the deaths of Afghan and Iraqi children, but his reaction struck me as more apt and humane than the howls from the pit here. If that is sanctimonious to you, I relish in being it: Help yourself!