[Phil V.]

Who will call her a martyr.

That depends on how it's "played".

The image of the Chinese man in Tian An Minh(sp?) Square in front of the tank still burns brightly.

[Kevin Curry]

Had a Palestinian--an adult, not a child or teen egged on by an adult--stood in front of the bulldozer and died, your comparison to the Tianamen Square incident might be appropriate. As it is, it is misplaced.

It is most interesting Palestinian adults aren't volunteering to sacrifice their lives in this manner. Rather, they let leftist nimrods from the US do it.

[Enduring Freedom]

The image of a dozey Socialist being flattened by a dozer will burn brightly as the image of stupidity versus the War on Terrorism.

How is that cold wet place under the rock you call 'home'?

[FITZ]

Really it almost doesn't matter that this happened in the Middle East ---even right here in the US, at an American demolition zone, it's very very foolish to jump in front of a moving bulldozer. I think she gets the Darwin award for today.

[Starrgaizr]

"the Chinese man"

Inappropriate moral equivalence. There is an objective, moral diffrence between standing in front of a tank sent to crush a democratic rebellion against a brutal dictatorship and standing in front of a bulldozer sent by a democratic country deperate for some leveraege over suicide terrorists but too humane to do what Arab powers themselves always do to their own rebellious Muslim populations -- crush them wholesale.

The world's deliberate ignoring of the key moral distinctions is what has prolonged the suffering of Jews and Arabs alike.

[Publius6961]

The image of the Chinese man in Tian An Minh(sp?) Square in front of the tank still burns brightly.

Agreed.

However, comparing a brave individual defiant in the defence of freedom to the neuron-challenged in defense of terrorism is an insult to human intelligence.

[talk2farley]

[QUOTE]The image of the Chinese man in Tian An Minh(sp?) Square in front of the tank still burns brightly.[/QUOTE]

Perhaps for the ignorant, a comparison will seem appropriate. For the rest of us, its all in the context. The young man who defied the PRC's tanks in Tien ah Min Square stood in plain sight on wide open ground, and was part of a peaceful student protest calling for democratic elections and free speech.

This woman lay down in front of a bulldozer on its way to destroy an empty home used by a Palestinian terrorist to plan and launch homicide bombings responsible for the deaths of dozens of civillians.