Rich, you are not 'really' asking me to tell you that a terrorists actions are 'right', are you?
And I am not talking about what a terrorist does, or does not, do. I am talking about the actions of the state. If the state has a policy, in which its citizens die, I am proposing that the policy needs to be seriously reconsidered.
Someone once said:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
I guess my point is, I am looking at, perhaps, the first (or at least some early) event in what may be a 'long train of abuses and usurpations.
Ahh, what the hell do I know about Mr. Jefferson's thoughts after all.