Thankfully, Norm Geras has both the words and the patience to address Bunting's conflated arguments and strange sympathies.
[N]ot one of her factors of supposed explanation addresses the thing she really needs to address about suicide bombing, namely, why moral revulsion isn't the right response to the deliberate murder and injury of innocent people in furtherance of a political cause. For it is sacrificing them: depriving them of, or wrecking, their lives, as a mere instrumentality towards some putatively desirable end, which is sometimes remote, sometimes, even, impossible to achieve. It is a crime against those so sacrificed, a crime under international law, and a crime against humanity by codes and conventions now universally recognized.Except, of course, that such codes and conventions are not recognized by those whose moral relativism allows the conclusion that one person's "innocent civilian" is another's "legitimate target".
