Re: Suicide Bomber Revelation

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:

> slidge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>>> News is re****ting retarded suicide bombers.
>>>>
>>>> Well, duh.
>>>
>>> I read they were not recruited so much as fitted up and sent into a
>>> crowd. Horrible.
>>
>> I wonder if the insurgents are beginning to run out of volunteers?
>>
> I think the volunteers for that sort of mission require that the level
> of hopelessness be pretty high. Most people would never consider
> strapping a bomb on and blowing up a school bus no matter how hopeless
> they felt. In fact, there's proof for that as to the number of suicides
> each year where people don't make any effort "to take others with them"
> is far, far higher than the number where they shoot up or blow up a
> school, mall, etc.

And yet, people who volunteer for the infantry are celebrated, and if they

are killed in action they are elevated to hero status.



Lee "Cultural lenses distort everthing" Ayrton



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