What a horror terrorism is. It is a cancer upon civilization, a purely destructive force with no redeeming value. What I most fear is that these monsters will incite retaliation upon their mostly innocent countrymen and women. We want to lash out, of course, and the increasing brutality of their savage attacks makes it ever easier to consider these noncombatant men, women and children as tolerable "collateral damage", bombing the areas we think the attackers came from. This would produce more jihadis on their side, feeding an ever-growing cycle of death and destruction on both sides.

This cannot end well, I fear.