Amy J,
What is wrong with our foreign policy that an entire group of people would feel so hopeless in life and commit suicide and kill others?
Didn't the same thing happened with the Japanese, that they were indoctrinated to the same level of fanaticism that they did the same?
Maybe the answer is something along the lines of educating people, giving them purpose, and giving them hope.
bin Laden is educated, he is able to manage construction projects, build roads, houses, schools, libraries etc. Yet, he chooses to be a mass murderer. The people committed these acts did not look to be deprived.
Education and jobs give people hope to create a better life, a future, a better lifestyle.
You are assuming that they want better life, future, better lifestyle. Apparently, murdering Americans has much greater appeal to them. Why is it that you are trying to assume that people whose intention was to commit mass murder with almost no paralel in history operate under your assumptions?
Maybe terrorists are like street thugs that come out if they don't have hope and aren't kept busy being productively employed.
So you are willing to consider all reason and possibilities other than one, which is that these people have free will, take actions freely, and are responsible for their actions. Why is it that you are trying to go through all these twists to come up with excuses for something that is inexcusable? Why is the obvious reason that some people are just evil, fanatical, beyond reason, so difficult to accept?
Joe |
