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To: arielb
#4: "and he signs the checks"

I'm quite certain the suicide bombers aren't motivated by money.

19 posted on 04/16/2002 12:59:24 AM PDT by Jethro Tull
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To: Jethro Tull
I'm quite certain the suicide bombers aren't motivated by money.

And you are quite the naive one. The greatest mistake in dealing with terrorists is to assume that they live anywhere near the same moral plane we do. The very idea of anyone sacrificing their own children unnecesarily is morally repugnant to the Western mind, but the fact is that they do -- for money, for religious fanaticism, for the pure joy of hating others. By stooping to such moral depths, they believe they prove their superiority to us Westerners, who are all concerned about the sanctity of life and such, and too many of us Western suckers buy into that mythology. The Nazis convinced many Germans to breed as many children as possible, on the same rationale -- that it would lead to the triumph in war. They too produced children in the very expectation that they would be sacrificed in war, to assure the triumph of their cause. How ironic that the Jewish people, having survived one Holocaust, now have to stave off yet another potential Holocaust, and get blamed by so much of the world's opinion for being the aggressors, and for being themselves the ones wishing racial extermination on their tormentors. I remind all here that Israel has never initiated war on any of the Moslem states that surround her, although they have attacked her repeatedly since 1948. Of course, when emotions run high, I guess facts have little relevancy.

22 posted on 04/16/2002 2:33:27 AM PDT by pariah
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