Don't think only men are suicide bombers. So Paula Broadwell breathlessly assures her Boston Globe readers in an article this morning titled, "The growing role of women in terror." Now that women are Ivy League presidents, they have also conquered the mountain in Islam to be able to be real "martyrs," not just wailers who follow the martyrs' funerals from behind. We are back to the proximate female terrorist, the 70 year old Gaza grandmother with 43 grandchildren. Fatma Najar, who late last month blew up herself in order to kill some Israeli soldiers which poor Broadwell seems to think she did. Alas, for her heroic narrative, she only wounded two, and these just slightly. "After Najar's martyrdom," writes Broadwell without irony or even quotation marks, "another woman in Gaza, aged 65" stood up to proclaim that there are "at least 20 of us who want to put on the belt." Broadwell kindly inserts the word "suicide" before belt so that no one should think it's another kind. You can read another ode to poor Fatma by Sandra Jordan in The Observer. But Broadwell does not want only to tell us that there are violent women terrorists. She recites a litany of how women also engage in "non-violent endeavors" that allow them the honorific mujahidaat. How wonderful! There are terrorist women terrorists and non-terrorist women terrorists. Another expression of equal opportunity. Of course, female terror is present not only in poor Palestine. But in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Uzbekistan. Just to show that there are women terrorists outside the Muslim world, Broadwell cites the statistic that, "One-third of the members of the Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are women." And now back to the Muslims: "The Chechen Black Widows female suicide bombers led 12 suicide attacks that killed 330 people in two years." Wow. "When counterterrorism experts estimate their opponents' capabilities and techniques, it behooves them to think about what is happening in the women's locker room." It does behoove them. Sure. But then comes Broadwell's real pitch: "Equally as important, we should strive to give Muslim women across the globe other outlets for empowerment and the opportunity to contribute to countering terrorism in their societies." But if virtually entire Islamic societies have gone bonkers over jihad--not, mind you, the sweet personal struggle type--why should the women be different. Very realistic, Ms. Broadwell. I do hope you get your Ph.D. from Harvard's K School. And, then, given your balance and equanimity, James Baker might give you a job, along with the other fantasts he's employed. And you know a lot of them are women, too.