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Re: Always Informative - Anti Empire Report #141
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, December 11 2015, 16:42:57 (UTC)
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"The couple in California … The only explanation my poor pagan mind can offer for their unspeakable behavior is “martyrdom”. They knew that their action would, in all likelihood, result in their death and they believed what they had been taught – oh so profoundly taught in the Kuran and drummed into their heads elsewhere like only religion can – that for martyrs there are heavenly rewards in the afterlife … forever. "

...any soldier who goes into battle knows that "...their actions would in all likelihood result in their death"....the soldier's aim isn't suicide, neither is the "suicide" bomber's, if he or she is legit...the aim is to strike the most effective blow at the enemy with the limited means at hand.....the couple had no way of getting to the soldiers who are doing the killing for America....and, as our own "Shock and Awe" adventure consisted in terrorizing civilians, we shouldn't pretend to be shocked.

...Americans honor their own soldiers who throw their bodies on a live grenade to save their buddies....even at the cost of their own lives...as we honor those who remain in hopeless situations so others may live...or who risk their lives on what we call "suicide missions".....Christianity certainly doesn't drive them.....patriotism and fellow-feeling as well as a grim determination to strike at the enemy moves them....it's the same for everyone else.

The only thing "exceptional" about us is that we think we are.



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