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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (682)	9/10/2006 8:49:24 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

The folly of blaming ourselves The Australian ^ \| 11th September 2006 \| Pamela Bone theaustralian.news.com.au What is needed to fight this war on the Islamists and the ideas behind this war is moral clarity - not moral relativism and a widespread cynicism about political motives WE'VE been watching again, these past days, those images from the day the world changed. We've seen again the towers crumbling, the people running, the ash raining, the bodies falling. We've watched the people standing in the streets, staring in horrified fascination, their hands over their mouths. And we realise that while we are watching them watching, our hands are covering our mouths, too. What is this hand-over-mouth thing humans do? The reason we feel this horror watching is that as human beings we empathise with the suffering of other human beings. Nearly all people have this empathetic response, according to psychologists. Those who don't are psychopaths, and they make up only one or two per cent of the population. Yet we know there are many people who, on seeing these scenes, cheered. Are they all psychopaths? No, they can't be, there are too many of them. So we try to find other reasons for why they would enjoy seeing innocent people die. For five years now we've been searching for reasons. Are we any wiser? It's Iraq, many will chorus, wanting ever more vindication. But the first Islamist attack on American soil was way back in 1993, when the World Trade Centre was bombed. The invasion of Iraq has added to Islamist anger, but it didn't cause it. They were angry long before then. (Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ....