Aitzaz Hasan Bangash, age 14, died saving his school from a suicide bomber

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cutelildrow pointed me to her post "These Were Heroes" about ordinary people who stymied Islamist terrorillyst attacks, specifically Aitzaz Hasan Bangash, a 14-year-old Pakistani who died saving his school from a Taliban suicide bomber.  Thanks to Aitzaz's heroic sacrifice, the bomber failed to kill anyone else.  He was by our standards a minor child -- but he made the decision of a man and he died like a man.

I salute him.

It is astonishing that anyone who is neither an Islamist or insane cares a whit for what happens to any Taliban, given that murdering schoolchildren is their intentional and deliberate policy.  In my opinion, Taliban and Taliban sympathizers alike deserve to die, in as painful and humiliating a fashion as possible.