Terrorists SUCK

[Silus]

Would that be the desperate people who have been documented as doctor's and teachers coming from European countries to enlist in the Jihad? You say religion has little to do with it....ok then what is the reasoning behind the terrorist acts? Which part of it you dont see as despicable? Would that be forcing the uneducated and mentally retarded to carry bomb vest or the act that the terrorist are killing Americans?

[TomOfSweden]

Would that be the desperate people who have been documented as doctor's and teachers coming from European countries to enlist in the Jihad? You say religion has little to do with it....ok then what is the reasoning behind the terrorist acts? Which part of it you dont see as despicable? Would that be forcing the uneducated and mentally retarded to carry bomb vest or the act that the terrorist are killing Americans?

I don't think it's religion that is the problem either. Sure, it's a problem in the sense that Muslims believe in heaven and if their faith is strong enough blowing themselves up is good. But this is just a question of tactic. The world is full of examples of atheist communist terrorists also. Killing Fields in Cambodia!

I think this is very deep. I think terrorism is the tool of the powerless to make an impression in the world, no matter how small. It's like those people on the reality TV shows. Insignificant people who feel their lives are worthless, who just want to fill it with some meaning. To make a difference to someone somewhere.

I think terrorism is the symptom of pure unadulterated spiritual desperation.

Or to put it another way. Let's say a person has a loving wife, a family a good job, a hobby you enjoy and friends you can trust. If you remove all that, what is left to sustain the spirit? We all need goals to work toward. We all need signs that we're getting closer to them. If we aren't our soul dies. Is that so strange?

I think all fanatics are at their core only trying to drown out the sound of their own thoughts reminding them that what they're doing is futile.

[V.W. Singer]

Warfare is alway despicable. Every nation with any kind of military history has indulged in acts equally as horrible as those peformed by the current crop of terrorists. From Hiroshima to the sticking of heads on pikes outsite the city walls, these acts have only one purpose, which is to break the enemy's will to fight through sheer horror. The use of children and the mentally incompetent as bomb carriers is despicable. So is the use of cluster bombs, napalm, thermobaric bombs, anti-personnel mines and torture. Despite the Geneva Convention, everyone has performed atrocities. Is it so much more moral to kill hundreds of civillians by dropping bombs and missles on them as opposed to attaching the bomb on the civillian directly? Is an embargo that stops medicines and food from reaching children and the old any less despicable? So long as we benefit from the use of force on others, we have no right to condemn others for responding in kind. Terror tactics were not invented by the Muslims or any other particular religious group. These tactics are the logical outcome of a certain set of circumstances - an overwhelmingly powerful enemy, lack of equivalent conventional forces, desperation, extreme oppression, extreme poverty. Humane, honourable warfare has never existed.

All else is Point of View. Do we not cheer or laugh when the movie good guy sticks a grenade down the pants of a villain and pushes him into a room full of his colleagues? When the action hero blows up a villa full of drug dealers, who expresses concern for the innocent prostitutes, girlfriends, servants and other employees who get dismembered in the process?