It's a tragedy engendered by the fact that fallible human beings are being asked to protect a capital city when faced with people willing to kill themselves and anyone near them at anytime in any place. This is a new circumstance where all the entrenched beliefs expressed above from both sides need to be set aside and thought about very seriously in the light of what has happened.None of us have faced this situation before and this poor man is as much a victim of the suicide bombers as anyone else they have killed. We are not in a right or wrong situation here, we are in a new situation and new thoughts and approaches are needed.
The freedoms and rights we have always taken for granted are under threat, but it is too easy to say that the state is threatening us, when the state is doing it's best to protect us from what is, basically, an undefendable attack.
The whole thing is a tragedy of epeic proportions and will be for far longer than any of us can conceive. We must learn to live with mistakes and learn from them, but in the end always remember that the people responsible for this mess are religious fanatics who wish to kill indiscriminately.
Don't throw the first stone without serious thought. We're going to have to deal with this for a very long time.