Dumb Kid

Not even dumb really, just, well, being a kid. This is hardly the first un-thought-through Halloween costume a college kid has put together. I might question Amy Gutmann's decision to pose with him. She's supposed to be a sober adult; and the president of the University of Pennsylvania. She should know that suicide bombers target the innocent. Would she have posed with him if he'd dressed up as one of the Columbine killers? Of course not. How bout if there was an Andrea Yates costume? Would that be OK?

No, but it's perfectly all right to pose with someone dressed as an indiscriminate killer of children. Why did she do it? I doubt she realized what she was doing. The left has become so lazy these days, I doubt any of them have thought through what it means to support Palestinian suicide bombers. Why put forth the effort? You already picked your side. AP won't bother you with images of carnage in Israel. The New York Times won't profile the victims of Jihad. You just take your cues from your environment. If the kefiya is the style, you go with it.

I don't expect it to enter a kid's head as he kneels at the feet of the mock "terrorist", "what if I did one day have to pray 5 times a day under the barrel of a gun? What if they did kill my neighbor for being gay? What if they raped my sister for showing her face?" A kid at a party isn't going to think it through. The grown-ups in attendance should have.