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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (114580)	9/12/2003 12:57:53 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "Except these young people are being taught that life is not sacred, and that they should consider it the upmost honor to sacrifice their lives, their futures, and their posterity, in the name of suicide warfare." You're making a mountain out of a molehill. I've already proved that the total number of Palestinians who have committed suicide using a homicide bomb is only a tiny fraction of the number who would have committed suicide in any case. For the detailed figures, see #reply-17310111 In the event of a real war, the number of people killed in combat is far, far, far, greater than the tiny numbers of Arabs who kill themselves in suicide attacks. The reason the Palestinians haven't already killed every Israeli is that convincing humans, even Moslem humans, to kill themselves, even in an act of war, is extremely difficult. The Arabs make a big deal out of suicide squads, but the facts are that they kill a lot more Palestinians than vice versa. And more Palestinians probably die in driving accidents than die in suicide bombs. In other words, you're running scared from a military technique that doesn't work very well. Some soldier. Hey, if convincing people to blow themselves up for the sake of the country was easy, Germany and Japan would have done it. Oh, they did? Both of them? And they still lost the war? LOL!!! I recently read a fascinating book on the subject of the German suicide fighters that were sent up with the intention of colliding with an allied bomber. Here's a link: ... During March (sic 1945), Reichs Marshall Goering called for volunteers for special and dangerous work. The result was that later in the month, the first 300 pilots arrived for a ten day course of fighter-ramming. This course was chiefly political but the operational side included the method to be used to reach the bombers and the tactics to be employed when ramming. Late in March, the first 80 pilots were organized into units equipped with ME-109's from which most of the non-essential equipment was removed. ... 100thbg.com Re: "When you have 10 million children in Saudi Arabia alone being indoctrinated with the politics of hatred and Jihad, you can't help but realize we're facing Islamofascist version of the Hitler Jugend, or Communist Pioneers." It's kind of hilarious that you would use the Communist Pioneers as a comparison. The fact is that about what, 200 million children in the USSR were indoctrinated with the politics of hating the US, their regime did have nukes, and it still didn't result in any major destruction in the US. As another example, while Germany and Italy were defeated in war, Franco's admittedly fascist regime in Spain was not. And Spain has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, LOL. So there were millions of kids indoctrinated there with the same kind of lunacy that Hitler promoted but without any major international problems. -- Carl