[lit-ideas] Re: Ideology vs Experience
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:31:51 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/28/2006 11:14:18 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ideology vs Experience
>
> Andy: We took a relative handful of jihadists and turned
> them into a worldwide movement...
>
> So only a handful of people wanted to blow themselves up in
> the name of Allah before the US responded to 9/11 -- and now
> many more people want to blow themselves up in the name of
> Allah?
>
Correct. Exactly. What follows below is just fancy footwork instead of
looking at the reality of what *we* did. As far as mentally ill, how
mentally stable do you classify shunting aside those who attacked us,
forgetting about them as if they never walked the earth, and invading a
country that had nothing to do with the attack, without even a thought?
Where does that rate on brain power? And did we not know this about these
people before we invaded? Stupid question, of course we didn't. Brain
power anyone?
> These guys mostly die, you know. Their survival rate is very
> low indeed. Their motives could be:
>
>
> 1) They are mentally ill. Only a mentally ill person would
> willingly commit suicide in such a way as to kill a bunch of
> others.
>
> 2) They are slaves to a violent religious ideology that
> glorifies suicide.
>
> or, your choice,
>
>
> 3) They didn't want to die and had no violent tendencies at
> all until the US invaded Iraq. But they just couldn't get
> over that invasion ... and they all changed.
>
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