re: Your quote was that most suicide bombings occur in lands that are occupied by a foreign power. So?
Not most, 95%. You were struggling for an explanation and I tried to help.
re: Does that dispute in any way my view that the culture/society/religion that produced that guy who lured 100 Iraqi day laborers to his car in order to kill as many of them along with himself is sick, and it needs to do some serious examination of itself, and expunge whatever ideology in itself produced that guy?
That's a two-part question. What is the sick part, the killing of civilians or the suicide bomb method?
The US has probably killed many more civilians in Iraq (mostly women and children, they say) than the insurgents. Does that make us "sick", and should we "expunge whatever ideology (Neo) in itself produced" that killing?
As far as the suicide bomb method, you should read that article, maybe the book. I think it's sick, but then I think the whole Iraq war is sick.
re: In your analogy, if the US were occupied by a Muslim nation, and the Muslims were forcibly...
My analogy wasn't perfect; wasn't intended to be. It was just intended to show that even Americans, under the right circumstances, could resort to the suicide bomb method. Iraq is descending into a civil war, and although you may see both sides as Arabs and/or Muslims, they have a different view of good guys and bad guys.
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