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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: frankw1900 who wrote (24034)4/9/2002 10:18:29 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi frankw1900; Re: "By late 1987, the carnage of the Iran-Iraq war had burned out the martyrdom syndrome among young Iranian men."

My point is that it took until 1987 to burn the martyrdom syndrome, and that this was only after 600,000 Iranians had been killed. With a population of about 60 million, this is a death rate of 1%. This in a war where neither side was threatening the other with anything more than ownership of a few islands.

Translating that 1% figure into the Palestine conflict (because the conflict is a far more serious one, and even women are executing suicide attacks) would increase it to a considerably higher number, but even 1% of 3 million people is 30,000.

-- Carl
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