Melanie Phillips has a great post today at her weblog, on Blaming the victims.

Having just listened to yet more claims, reported on BBC radio’s The World at One, that the British consulate in Istanbul wouldn’t have been bombed had we not helped attack Iraq, I am struck even more by the truly demented discourse we are now being forced to have. The attack on Iraq may well have enraged more Muslims and helped recruit them to terror. But then so does any attempt at self-defence against Islamic terror. As soon as one fights back, one is accused of aggression.