This article in The Atlantic is about the "myth" of terrorist revenge but the writer Jeffrey Goldberg fails to see how he is a victim of the myth of good violence as well. Because that's what revenge is after all, responding to the bad violence of my enemy with my good violence. Goldberg plays the "he started it" game, a classic kindergarten tactic to avoid responsibility for your own violence and then ends up with "but hey, they are wrong and we're right" gambit to claim the mantle of goodness for his violence. When will we see the symmetry between us and our enemies when we both claim the right to use violence for ourselves and condemn it in each other? The only moral claim here would be to reject the use of violence as a means to achieve any end, because any end, no matter how good, cannot survive as good if it requires the death of others to achieve it. That is the truth behind the myth that Goldberg and his enemies both need to see.