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Thread #92719   Message #1776105
Posted By: Little Hawk
04-Jul-06 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: 1 in 10 Muslims think bombers were martyrs
Subject: RE: BS: 1 in 10 Muslims think bombers were martyrs
Suicide tactics are NOT the exclusive property of any religion. They are the tactics of those who lack the necessary military power to successfully attack and damage a hated enemy by conventional means.

And that is why thousands of Buddhist and Shinto Japanese launched suicide attacks on the Allies in WWII...attacks which did far more damage than conventional air attacks could possibly have accomplished at that point in the war.

Suicide attacks are not a product of religion, they are a product of bitterness and sheer desperation in the face of a far better armed opponent.

Israelis would launch suicide attacks too...if the shoe was on the other foot, and they were outgunned to the point where they could not possibly win on the conventional battlefield. Jews killed themselves en masse at Masada, when trapped by the Romans. Remember? They were the powerless ones then. They and the USA HAVE the power in that region now. It is those under the heel of that power who will launch suicide attacks, not the Israelis or the Americans...who don't NEED to.

It is the virtually powerless who launch suicide attacks. Period. Against the powerful. And so it has always been.