Indeed. But perhaps we can now have a world-wide "intifada" AGAINST the crazies who do these deranged acts.
Saddly, now we see what Israel has to contend with every day.
Well, if you rob a people of its land, massacre them, ethnicly cleanse them, round them up into de-facto "reservations" cut off from water and basic infrastructure, cut them off from economic opportunity, bulldoze their houses, destroy their farms, orchards, and businesses, and take every opportunity you can to kill, imprison, torture, and murder them, then it is not surprising when their response is often murderous, retaliatory terrorism.
Regardless, Israeli's actions in Palestine should be none of our business, and yet we finance, arm, and support Israel, "our most reliable ally" (an ally that spies on us and attacks and kills our sailers a la USS Liberty). By doing so, we become de facto part of the politics of the middle east. Therefore we should not be surprised when hate-crazed revenge seeking Islamic lunatics target us for attack.
We have chosen sides in the Arab-Israeli wars (and have done so for decades); in spite of our pretense of peacebroker, we are de facto Israeli's ally and prime means of support, and therefore we should have expected to be attacked by Islamic terrorists. The only surprise is why it took so long for something like this to happen.
My own preference would be for us to hunt down and execute those responsible for today's terrorists attacks, without mercy. After that is done, though, we should pull out of the middle east entirely: Israel, Egypt, and the rest should not get one more cent of our money and not one more bullet of our military assistance.
This won't happen, of course. Expect us to get drawn deeper into this mess. That is what our empire-loving elites desire: more internationalism. That's also why the Washington Post is beating the war-drums: they are not against all wars. They are for wars which happen to coincide with their own interests. Surely no one here thinks that the Washington Post has our interests or the interests of the USA at heart. Quite the contrary. They have recognized a golden opportunity and are seizing it.