Guest Steve, I wasn't suggesting that all military minds think like the 9/11 hijackers. I was stating a well known fact: the age of conscription is always very young for a number of well known reasons, including the fact that young minds are more easily brainwashed/"trained" than older ones. As we mature, we begin to question the infallibility authoritary figures try to cloak themselves in, and to function more according to our own personal moral compasses, and less according to those of our parents and other social, cultural, and religious authority figures.

I maintain that we do have instances in Western culture of martyrdom for the cause which resonate with those "ideals" in warrior societies around the world. Including the present day US and UK armed forces.