Let me make one thing perfectly clear: people who choose to go into a conflict zone are not victims if they succumb to its violence.

I grieve for all the dead and the lost, but I am not ashamed that I grieve a little deeper for the truly innocent, for the ones who had no choice.

My tribe is far too often untimely diminished and each time is sad almost beyond measure, but they are neither lambs to the slaughter, nor soldiers under orders. They chose this life and all of its risks, they were not unaware. They are not victims. Thus I will blame them (when it is warranted) and all others who make this choice without fear of moral stain.

Let me add that my tribe, at least, does not enter a conflict zone with the intentional capacity to inflict violence.