It's the Occupation, Stupid! Why suicide bombers volunteer.

[sinkingfeeling]

Please read this piece: It's the Occupation, Stupid!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x139771

The article is at http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071405O.shtml

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1. Wow

In the American Conservative? Maybe someone will actually read it...

[donco6]

2. Here's the argument against, "Fight them over there . . . "

"People who make the argument that it is a good thing to have them attacking us over there are missing that suicide terrorism is not a supply-limited phenomenon where there are just a few hundred around the world willing to do it because they are religious fanatics. It is a demand-driven phenomenon. That is, it is driven by the presence of foreign forces on the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. The operation in Iraq has stimulated suicide terrorism and has given suicide terrorism a new lease on life."

This seems blatantly obvious. Sadly so.

[sui generis]

3. most suicide bombers are young idealistic children

bolstered by a belief in a greater reward in the afterlife and that killing innocents outweighs the needs of their cause.

That's why we hire our military as young as we do too, btw.

Self-possessed anti-authoritarian atheists make lousy soldiers.