RE: I just registered just now!
December 24, 2011 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2011 at 10:20 pm by Cyberman.)
I never thought I'd see anyone use the phrase "to be fair" while discussing the IRA. Just my take on it but I don't think the religious views - if any - of the victims makes any difference to the outcome. It may have been the justification for targetting them but bombs are notoriously indiscriminate weapons at the best of times and I rather suspect that someone setting one in a public space is demonstrating a total and callous disregard for the lives of innocent men, women and children.
I do take your point about the suicide aspect of such terrorists, however the Japanese kind of got there long before bin Laden and friends were gleams in their father's eyes and presumably weren't even the first to come up with the concept. The modern crop of terrorists do seem to have popularised it though.
I do take your point about the suicide aspect of such terrorists, however the Japanese kind of got there long before bin Laden and friends were gleams in their father's eyes and presumably weren't even the first to come up with the concept. The modern crop of terrorists do seem to have popularised it though.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
