Homicide or Suicide

Today's Best of the Web has this:

The Los Angeles Times surveys opinions of the term homicide bombers, which the White House, Fox News Channel and others have adopted to replace suicide bombers. We're with Christoper Hitchens, who tells the Times: " 'Homicide bomber' weakens it if anything. Bombing itself is a neutral act nowadays--we bombed Afghanistan, after all. The term should be 'suicide murderers.' Suicide detonations in public spaces are murders and should be called that."

Meanwhile, an anti-Israel piece by Salon's Eric Boehlert (requires subscription) includes the following astonishing aside: "Fox News . . . adopted Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer's suggestion that suicide bombers be called 'homicide bombers,' to make clear that they're killing others, not just themselves--a case of pandering to the pro-Israel side." Is it really Boehlert's view that acknowledging the slaughter of Jewish civilians constitutes "pandering"?

How about "omnicide bombers?" They are killing themselves, Israelis, the future and peace.