PA - what Alcar was trying to say was that you only know what your Government (well, and the media, but you know what I mean) decides to tell you. It's called propaganda. During the two World Wars, not ALL Germans were murdering evil Jew-hating scum out to wipe all human life off the planet, but they was how they were often portrayed, as it was a war. Mr Bush wouldn't get very far if he said "well, yes, most al Quaeda (DAMMIT! can't spell it) don't like Americans but they're not ALL out to kill all of us..."
Yes, I know, the whole principle of al Quaeda is anti-American, and that society itself is very concerned with destroying (financially or emotionally or otherwise) America - but you can't blanket-bomb and say they're ALL evil. Some might have been misled into believing what they're doing is right just the same as most Westerners have been convinced they are the absolute enemy.
I'm not denying that al Quaeda themselves are the enemy. Just that you only know from what you're told. To use Alcar's example - yes, you know the sky is blue, you've seen it. If you'd never seen the sky, he could very easily convince you it's green by showing you a few photographs with green sky (and without using computers, he could use photographs of the sky before thunderstorms).
To get back on topic:
Any death is to be mourned. The shock value of this one is all that makes it different to the thousands that have been killed in Iraq since the end of the war. I suppose "American civilian brutally murdered by Arab scum!" makes a better headline for Bush's purposes than "Nineteen more Iraqi civillians killed in dispute with American soldiers".
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