Originally posted by easymo
This breaking people down into targets, because they are "undeserving" of any acknowledgment as human beings is sickening. You have no way of knowing. There's a lot more to a person than the army they serve.
Is this the same guy, who thought Jim Brown blowing up some Germans trapped down in a hole, was such a cool movie?
Yes it is. Apples and Oranges. The movie wasn't cool, it was a grim, gritty war story. If you somehow got the impression that I thought that they did good things in that film, you are mistaken.
Let me put it this way: these people are serving in the Taliban or Al Quaeda military. Why? Is it because they are evil and want to kill all the Westerners? Actually, not quite. Many, hell, probably most of them are poorly educated and brainwashed young men. They would kill you without shedding a tear, because they have been told endlessly that you would do the same to them (ironically, you would, to hear what you're saying). They have been told that the Western, Jew-ruled world will stop at nothing to annihilate them from the earth. They believe us to be as evil as we believe them to be. It's not simple hatred, though they do indeed hate us. It's survival. They believe this because there is nothing else to believe that doesn't come from the Great Satan that they have already been warned against.
Yes, they are going to die. Sadly, there isn't much we can do about this, because they believe what they have been told so thoroughly. They will willingly go to their deaths, in fact. Even more sadly, you will rejoice over it. "Another evil terrorist bites the dust." Well. Evil after a fashion...
If there is indeed a hell, I hope that Osama bin Laden and all of his disgusting kind will have a special place there, not only for what they has done to us, but what they have done to their own people. Because of them, there is that much less hope of bridging the gulf of understanding, knowledge, and hate. I hope that this is resolved quickly, but I have a feeling that the repercussions of all of this are going to be pretty far reaching.