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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elroy who wrote (251459)9/15/2005 10:28:35 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1572604
 
re: I think the guy who blew himself and a bunch of Iraqi workers to smithereans is indicative of something seriously flawed about the society/culture/religion that produced him.

From that article ---

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign—over 95 percent of all the incidents—has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.

re: JF seems to think these lunatic killers are controlled by outside forces which compel them to commit these horrific acts (as if they have no responsibility for the acts themselves), and the source of all those outside forces are a US troop presence in the country.

That's a misrepresentation. Of course everyone is responsible for their actions. But outside forces also influence those actions. There is no debate about the correlation between the presence of military forces and suicide bombings.

Now again I ask, what do you object to, the killing of civilians or the method?

John
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