You said: "Are the Palestine suicide bombers cowards? Somehow I think not."
And to my mind, it doesn't make them 'warriors' either. They're just another example of human slime that doesn't care who they kill as long as they are Jewish (or maybe Americans).
And you underestimate the 'U.S. public'. The majority of the public was against the war in Vietnam because, back then, the Vietnamese were not seen as a threat. They weren't over here attacking us, so the war didn't make much sense to many of us.
But the U.S. public is very much in favor of this war (incase you haven't guessed). For instance, in your napalm example, i would tune in to one of the networks to watch the Al-queda fry by the thousands, and eat popcorn like i was at the movies. I want them DEAD. And the reason i want them dead is because they want US dead. Most people i know feel the same way i do. Many Americans are quite eager to see the Al-queda die after what they did on 9-11.
I don't hesitate calling them cowards out of any sense of 'reverence' or 'fairness'. My ONLY objection to calling them cowards is because it can set up a mindset to underestimate them, and i don't want to underestimate them. To me, they are simply our 'mortal enemy'. Even the fact that they are slimy enough to kill innocent non-combatants, doesn't sway my thinking about how to defeat them. It should be a cold, mechanical, by-the-numbers process. Great care should be taken to suffer as few American casualties as possible, and such consideration is in NO WAY an indicator of cowardice. It is simply how any war must be fought, from the perspective of either side.
Lastly, although the suicide bombers are not 'warriors', i would agree that the Al-queda that are fighting our American soldiers in Afghanistan ARE warriors. To call them anything less would be an insult to our soldiers who are fighting them there. |
