It Must be Nice to be a Jihadi

Really, it must be. After all, nothing is ever your fault, and you can just throw personal responsibility right out the window.

Can't get a job? Suffer the tragic lose of a child? Depressed because your terrorist buddy got himself killed? No problem, just do like Mohammed Siksik, and blow youself up. The multiple murders won't be your fault:

The Palestinian who blew himself up in the Israeli resort of Eilat on Monday was unemployed, despondent over the death of his baby daughter and driven to avenge his best friend's killing by Israeli troops, relatives said. [emphasis mine]

Yup, he was "driven" to do it; you aren't to blame if you're "driven" to an action. Or, you can just join a Buck Stops Over There group, like Hezbollah. Do you want to bring a country to a standstill, but you're afraid of being held accountable? That's no problem, according to Hezbollah's leader:

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah accused President Bush on Tuesday of creating chaos in Lebanon, rejecting his charge that the militant group and its allies were causing the violence.

Of course it can't be their fault; all Hezbollah did was shut down a city, burn tires in the streets, start some fatal street riots... What could possibly be wrong with that? And the damage to southern Lebanon? Hezbollah didn't do that; all they did was start a war. All of that had to be someone else's fault.

Yes, it must be very nice to be a jihadi, and to know that, no matter what kind of mess you make of your life or your country, you just aren't responsible for any of it.