Out of ignorance, I would like to hear from someone who might possibly enlighten me. What can a woman be offered for her soul in order to become a suicide weapon? Certainly not virgins or anything close to what I have heard they promise the men. Or are they just told they must do so or be put to punishment? Religion can be a strong motivation for people, but to kill for it? I don’t know how one could support their religion without compassion for another to believe in theirs as long as it doesn’t infringe on a right to believe either’s way.

“they hate us because of our freedom”

Tell ‘em to wait a few years. The way our freedoms are disappearing we’ll be on a par with “them” in the not too distant future.

they hate us because of our freedom….someone said.

FRT   I have been trying to make that point
to everyone that I have heard call those people
fanatics…. If you were protecting your mother
your children ect.  no tellin anyway…

PAT TILLMAN IS STILL MY HERO
NO MATTER HOW HE DIED
IF IT WERN’T FOR THESE DAMN RESOURCE WARS
TODAY HE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE

THEY WOULD LIKE US TO FORGET HIM
LIKE HIS STORY DIDN’T EXIST
BUT I WILL NEVER FORGET HIM
AND CONTINUE TO RESIST

I wonder if we can imagine what it took to bring that woman there.  I believe that if we were invaded, we might begin to understand the rage.  I believe that if our whole apartment buildings would be destroyed, bombed, or the building demolished because someone did an act of resistance, many killed for the actions of a few, how we would feel.  Consider the righteous anger we’d display.

“Defense becomes offense, the protection of your children becomes the murder of another’s, his threat becomes your preemption. You kill to stop the killing. Then you wonder, Are you the victim, or the slayer? But you are both.”
(James Carroll)

Respect.

I don’t understand what is preventing the United States leadership from learning from past mistakes.

Time and time again the brash, idealistic Americans have rushed in where fools fear to tread, sometimes even possibly with the best of intentions, only to suddenly realize too late they’re in way over their understanding and capability.

These ancient societies - Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iran, and now Yemen, and many more - have been in existence for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. They’ve had more wars than America has had birthdays. Their cultures and languages are much richer and more complex than anything that America has experienced. It certainly takes a special kind of arrogance mixed with ignorance to think the “American Way” is a one-size-fits-all solution to the world’s problems.

But that doesn’t stop the Yankees from gearing up to jump in with all guns blazing. And for what? To kill thousands of themselves, blow billions of dollars worth of munitions and infrastructure to smithereens and accomplish little more than to make matters worse.

Oh sure… there are injustices a mile deep in these societies - anathema to the “American way.” But just because America CAN doesn’t give it the RIGHT to just march in and take over. So… America keeps on getting thumped on the nose. I guess it will just keep repeating its mistakes until it finally sinks in to MIND IT’S OWN BUSINESS. (And it’s own business does not include interfering in other people’s!).

The person who rushes in to resolve a husband/wife dispute often winds up worse off than either of them.

My opinion, anyway.

REA How do we get the United States out of there??

There is no animal on this planet as insane and dangerous as the human beings that infect it.

Can you imagine what Earth without homo idioticus would be like?

Perhaps I’ll live long enough to understand what that female murderer thought she was going to accomplish.