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To: GST who wrote (115215)	9/19/2003 5:15:21 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) of 281500

But none of this addresses the state of mind of the 20 year old Palestinian woman who reaches under her blouse and detonates herself on a bus The state of mind of the bomber could be dominated by all sorts of things: triumph, despair, rage, glory, and so forth. You are making a very large assumption about the bombers when you ascribe their motivation to despair. In the early 19th century well educated Europeans committed suicide for aesthetic reasons. It was fashionable. In relation to this you might look at the PA's educational curricula and Palestinian popular culture. You might also look at the area's fashionable Perfectly Stupid Ideas. Addressing the state of mind of those who are the instruments of the suicide bombing administrators is in a real sense futile. What is far more important is being clear about the aims and reasoning of those who run the suicide bombing campaign.

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