A recent article in The Associated Press highlighted the troubles of Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, citing how “his life seemed to unravel.”

“He left a job at a global marketing firm he’d held for three years, lost his home to foreclosure and moved into an apartment in an impoverished neighborhood in Bridgeport.”

Of course, the media’s sympathies with terrorism normally only apply to non-white terrorists, especially if they have ties to Islam.

CBS’s Bob Orr noted how Shahzad “told interrogators he’s upset with U.S. policies which he feels unfairly target Muslims and he’s angry over Predator strikes that have killed both terror leaders and civilians in his native Pakistan.”

He considers it “unfair” to “target” Muslims who commit the vast majority of terrorist acts, apparently failing to note the irony of his own actions.

Orr then paints a sad picture of how Shahzad “lived a spartan and seemingly lonely existence” as evidenced by “a weight bench that passed for furniture, a collection of art supplies, a largely empty kitchen with a solitary plant on the counter. And in the bedroom, a rumpled air mattress on the floor.”

He concludes his story with: “Investigators say a quest for revenge seems to have played some role, but personal financial pressures may also have pushed Shahzad to act. He became a U.S. citizen just a year ago, but he has not realized any American dream. He quit his job, lost his house, and was separated from his family.”

Personal financial pressures? I wonder how many Americans have had their life unravel due to the current economic mess worsened by the policies of the Obama administration, yet have not felt the urge to pack their cars full of explosives and drive to busy intersections to blow it up.

There is also another distinct possibility. Perhaps “Shahzad became a U.S. citizen as a ruse to make it easier to carry out his Islamic jihad - and so quitting his job, moving his family to Pakistan and not paying his mortgage were not what drove him to terrorism, but were what he did to get training and rid himself of encumbrances.” But don’t expect the establishment press to explore that possibility.

Most of our media only seem interested in finding excuses for those who want to kill Americans. At the end of the day, there is really little difference between MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Al-Jazeera.