A good dose of moral clarity here.
My colleague Matthew Parris takes his cue from another poet. In seeking to argue that there was something “ennobling” in the suicide bombers’ self-sacrifice, he quoted from Horace — Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Wilfred Owen on the Horace quote:
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Complete poem here.