"Paul Schilter" wrote:
Makes me wonder why if Sadam was so hated by his people that they didn't
try the human bomb thing on him. Seems there's enough of them that are
willing to do it against us.

What makes you think they didn't? Just because it didn't make headline
news over here....


Gene Kearns wrote:
My take on it is, first, we don't think like they do.....

Very very very true.

... Sadam was
more feared, than hated. We are more hated than feared and the deaths
will continue until we pick up a really big stick and instill some
really significant fear.

On Sept 12th 2001 I would have agreed with you strongly. Now I don't
think that's going to work.

It is only partially true that economic desperation feeds terrorism. If
you grew up in a refugee camp with no knowledge and no hope, you might
not aspire to anything better than to be a martyr. However there must
also be an instigator... in our case we have lots of people who hate us,
going through these areas where their message will be well received, and
preaching against us... they do the same against Israel. These people
are the real enemy and AFAIK we are making no inroads against them at all.



I have to believe that the people going over there just for the money
have to believe, "it won't happen to me."

Greed is also a big factor. If you could move to Iraq temporarily and
make $500K/yr would you be tempted to go? How about a million a year?



How desperate? Depends how much you buy into this harem of virgins in
the afterlife thing.... Like I said, we don't follow the same
thought processes...

And that is only to be expected when you back up a step and think about
how different are the circumstances in which we live.

DSK