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**margoaroyo** · 09-11-2006, 05:13 PM

Okay then, why do these particular poor and oppressed people become suicide bombers? Are OBL and company just really, really persuasive speakers, or do the people in question have a high Evilness ratio in their personality, or what? Or do they "hate our freedom?" I thought one of the first rules of war was to know your enemy, and that includes your enemy's motivations.

And the Tamil Tigers, AFAIK, have little to do with the conflict between the western world and fundie Islamists. They are the result of a totally different neverending and pointless conflict, found in the Indian subcontinent (I think; I don't know the details because all I've heard about them are in Aneeshm's Hindu Culturegasm threads). Just because I don't think the conflict is restricted to al-Qaeda itself (there's also Hezbollah, the PLA or whatever acronym is in charge of harrassing Israel from that particular direction, etc.), doesn't mean I want to declare a "War on Terror" and take on the Tigers, the IRA, and every other group of nuts that conducts assassinations and bombings to prove a point.

09-11-2006, 05:13 PM	#4
margoaroyo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	Okay then, why do these particular poor and oppressed people become suicide bombers? Are OBL and company just really, really persuasive speakers, or do the people in question have a high Evilness ratio in their personality, or what? Or do they "hate our freedom?" I thought one of the first rules of war was to know your enemy, and that includes your enemy's motivations. And the Tamil Tigers, AFAIK, have little to do with the conflict between the western world and fundie Islamists. They are the result of a totally different neverending and pointless conflict, found in the Indian subcontinent (I think; I don't know the details because all I've heard about them are in Aneeshm's Hindu Culturegasm threads). Just because I don't think the conflict is restricted to al-Qaeda itself (there's also Hezbollah, the PLA or whatever acronym is in charge of harrassing Israel from that particular direction, etc.), doesn't mean I want to declare a "War on Terror" and take on the Tigers, the IRA, and every other group of nuts that conducts assassinations and bombings to prove a point.
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