We in the west tell ourselves lies about the meaning of terrorism such as what happened in Paris yesterday and in NYC in 2001.

"They hate us because we're free." <-- Lie. 

They hate us because we're at war with them. 

Last night's "terrorism" could be seen as an act of war, a war we started. 

The lie is that we don't do to people in the Middle East thousands of times more killing over a much longer period.

It's scary to think what would happen if they got as good at attacking our cities as we are at attacking theirs.