Let me point out that anyone who enters a combat zone, whether civilian or military, is risking their life. The atrocities done by the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong, by the Mau Mau, by the American Indians, by the Zulu, by the followers of Buckman in Haiti, are just as inexcusable as those done by the French, the Americans, the South Vietnamese, the British, the Russian, the Japanese military.

The "Rules of War" simply put a smile on the face of killing. The instruments of killing -- the bombs, the shells, the shrapnel, the bullets -- don't care who you are. Terrorists view themselves as a weapon, as an instrument of killing, and whatever benefit to their cause they can squeeze out of their own death is simply what the weapon was designed to do.