Re: A Question for David About Suicide Bombers
"What is your feeling about suicide bombers? The majority apparently are acting because they believe their actions are in the best interests of their countrymen and that by taking some lives now that many lives will be saved and improved in the future.
Also, I'm curious how you feel about Ward Churchill's comment that there's a sense in which some of the victims in the WTC towers on 9/11 kind of had it coming to them in that they worked for America's financial "machine," and certainly they knew that that machine created suffering and death."
As to the second paragraph I'm sure few "knew".
As to suicide bomblers, I have stated before that it is absurd to call "evil" those who would die for their principles, flawed as they may be. I certainly wouldn't die for a mere principle. But this particular situation is different. Because I sure as hell would die for 72 virgins.
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