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To: mountainlion
That assumes they don't actually believe that if they're martyred fighting against the infidels (the Jews and Crusaders) they'll get an express ride to paradise.

Nobody really knows what they'll do, but no one with any brains believes with any conviction that they would be have more or less rationally in the way the Soviets did.

The earlier poster who objected to the comment about the Russians loving their children being irrelevant was wrong. Believing that the US would massively retaliate if they used nuclear weapons (even indirectly), they were not willing to see their own families destroyed. The Russians, at least as officially atheist Marxists, did not have any hope of achieving paradise by having the world blown up.

One cannot thus argue concerning the Iranian mullahs!

18 posted on 03/10/2009 10:38:24 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: CatoRenasci

Let me say it another way. If Iran used a Nuclear weapon they would be destroyed!


22 posted on 03/10/2009 10:45:59 AM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: CatoRenasci
Exactly. This is what Bernard Lewis has been saying for several years.
34 posted on 03/10/2009 11:12:12 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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