The terror-bombing of the Riyadh housing complex that killed 18 people, all Muslims, is not quite like the death of Leon Trotsky.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* The terror-bombing of the Riyadh housing complex that killed 18 people, all Muslims, is not quite like the death of Leon Trotsky. It was terrible that Trotsky should have been murdered in such a grisly fashion--yet he was as bloodthirsty and ignorant as Stalin, and hence no loss. The difference in the Riyadh case is that the victims were ordinary civilians. Nevertheless, Saudi Arabia's rulers have an opportunity, if they can tear themselves away from their indulgences, to contemplate first-hand what they have wrought over so many years. Perhaps self-interest will compel them to change in ways that decency is powerless to do.