Caterpillar Bites Woman

James Taranto discusses the recent lawsuit in the Rachel Corrie case. She's the activitist that stupidly threw herself in front of an Isreali Defense Force bulldozer that was attempting to destroy a tunnel used by terrorists:

Blaming the Bulldozer
Yesterday we noted that the parents of terror advocate Rachel Corrie, who died in a self-inflicted bulldozer accident two years ago today, were suing the Israeli government in an Israeli court. It turns out they're also suing Caterpillar Inc., which made the bulldozer she attempted to obstruct, in a U.S. court. The Associated Press reports:

"The brutal death of my daughter should never have happened," Corrie's mother, Cindy Corrie, said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a law firm handling the case. "We believe Caterpillar and the (Israeli Defense Forces) must be held accountable for their role in the attack."

The lawsuit, according to the AP, "alleges that Caterpillar violated international and state law by providing specially designed bulldozers to Israeli Defense Forces that it knew would be used to demolish homes and endanger people."

Of course, Israel was using the bulldozer not to "demolish homes and endanger people" but to destroy a tunnel that Palestinian Arab terrorists were using to smuggle in weapons from Egypt, for the purpose of murdering Israeli civilians.

One of the reasons Corrie's death was a tragedy is that, although she was an adult, she was young enough (23) that one could imagine her eventually outgrowing and coming to regret her juvenile hatreds. Her parents, however, ought to know better.