Sounds like Michele over at A Small Victory is getting some flack over her personal reactions to the death of American Paul Johnson at the hands of Saudis. Since I had a rather similar "kill them all" reaction to Michele's (and like her, I had the same reaction on September 11th), I wanted to post this in my support of her.

While the blogging community, especially the political one, is made up of mostly fair writers who will admit when the are wrong about a story, it is also a place for us to vent our own opinions. Less cheesy than web diaries, but serve a similar purpose. If I'm pissed of about something, my readers will know about it. And when I told you I hate my sister in law, well, it's my choice to do so, and you respected that.

Michele had a negative reaction to the killing of one of her countrymen. Most of the rational thinking Americans were angry. She wanted to kill the Middle East. All of it (except Israel). I have felt that way for a long time. But what makes Michele and I, and America itself different from the Jihadist mentality of the Middle East is that we won't. We will not go out and solicit funding from each other in order to wage a holy war against those we think are wrong. We are hoping to disarm them, not arm ourselves. We will support those who go out and fight for us, but we will not commandeer a few commercial jets and fly them into mosques. The difference between US and THEM is that we are not terrorists.