Forget it, Jake, it's Jerusalem.

Best of the Web has a nice discussion of "the cycle of violence." It's like the Wage-Price Spiral. I saw a televised interview with the guy the Israeli's tried to kill, kill Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a top leader of Hamas, and wondered why the IDF didn't storm in during the shot and haul him off to a firing squad.

We talk about escalations as though terrorism was just a bargaining strategy. Every once in a while, we should all step back and look at Israel's response to the terrorists' walking landmines and marvel at their restraint. Terrorists killed a larger percentage of Israeli citizens than we suffered on 9/11 and what did we do? Why, we were the model of restraint. We stopped overthrown the regimes of two sovereign nations and dropping JDAMs that blew up a lot of Saddam's neighbors. We still don't know if Osama and Saddam are alive or dead.

You can have a prison camp off the coast of Florida, or any of the methods used by the Soviets, Russians, Red Chinese or North Koreans, which are politely ignored by the Moderate Left. But civilized nations don't do things like launching missiles from helicopters at the leaders of illegal terrorist NGOs.