Tough questions: Do you identify with Carlos? Do you admire him?

Part 2 of "Carlos" is equally, maybe more, exciting than part 1 (3-part mini-series version), especially the first half or so, which is a detailed and brutal depiction of a hostage taking, Carlos and three fellow-terrorist storm an OPEC meeting (today, impossible) and take the entire roomful of OPEC ministers as hostages, ultimately freeing some and taking off by plan from Vienna to Algiers. Many things go wrong with the plan, and we're with Carlos every second as he deals with every obstacle and condition - truly one of the most visceral movie segments ever done. One strange question for any viewer is: do you identify with Carlos? Do you sympathize? Part of the excellence of this miniseries is that you do, kind of - you admire his panache and even his idealism (he's no mercenary - he's a true believer), and you have to catch yourself, or at least I did, and remind yourself at times that he's a cold-blooded killer, and that, though I may have shared some of his left-wing ideology at one time and probably still do to an extent (though no great sympathizer with radical Arab causes, obviously), I never condoned the kind of actions he takes on: killing of innocents, attacks on civilians, terror at the barrel of a gun. He's horrible and scary and, though an idealist himself he works with some who are morally corrupt (the Stasi, Arab thugs) - buut it's hard not to watch him and be fascinated about how he goes about his chilling work.