It seems to me that it is no different than if a woman walks naked in to a room full of convicted rapists and gets raped. It's not right, they made the choice to rape her and by all means she did not "deserve" to be raped (no one does) but she did a very very stupid thing and paid the price. We put Sadaam and Osama in the positions they were in by our attempts to manipulate the governments and cultures in the middle east (and a lot of other places as well). By no means is it our fault that they chose to attack the USS Cole or the Twin Towers and those responsible should and are being hunted down and being brought to justice. But our government has been doing stupid things and has paid the price. Or rather, those 3000 people in the towers paid the price for the governments efforts to interfere where we should not have been interfering. I reiterate, it's not our fault that they chose to do what they did and there is no way to rationalize the actions of a bunch of religious zealots bent on the destruction of all that does not agree with them, but we have paid a very dear price for out stupidity and arrogance.