Via Craig C, a MEMRI-hosted video that follows a suicide bomber in Afghanistan from beginning to end.
Only my respect for Otherness keeps me from declaring suicide bombers deluded barbarians being used by fanatical ideologues who rarely, if ever, blow their ownselves up.
After all, somebody’s got to buy the vests, right?
I was going to be a suicide bomber once. See, Kohl’s Custard had discontinued my favorite flavor (Creamy Chocolate Mocha Chip Crunch); and in protest I figured, ya know, I’d just run up in there and show them they’d pissed off the wrong chocaholic right? Turns out though, if I do that not only do I get blown up, but if it results in the return of Creamy Chocolate Mocha Chip Crunch, I basically screwed myself right out of the very thing I needed so badly.
Good thing for us all they had a suggestion box. Whew.
Not only that but there is no future in being a suicide bomber.
It’s definitly a dead end occupation.
The coward accomplice talks a lot of shit while he’s running away, doesn’t he? Is this supposed to be impressive somehow?
I guess Rummy should have planned for this – if he’d thought they were that fucking stupid.
BUSH LIED!! SUICIDE BOMBERS DIED!!!!
Afghanistan? Are there Jews in Afghanistan?
I sincerely hope that Abu Muhommed enjoys the ass pounding that he is receiving cuurently in hell. These people are f’n riduclous…..
Not very Afghan of them. They fight like Hell, and can do so to the death – but suicide is not part of their culture.
Things like that are terrible events, but sure don’t win friends or even empathy amongst almost all Afghans. Kind of why the remnants of the TB linger on the Waziristan border, almost exclusively.
Well, at least there’s one less of them now.
Anyone have a clue as to the damage, if any, assboy caused to the “Americans”?
Are there Jews in Afghanistan?
Like, one or two, maybe. There were two in Kabul in 2001, and they disliked each other, if I recall correctly.
“Only my respect for Otherness keeps me from declaring suicide bombers deluded barbarians being used by fanatical ideologues who rarely, if ever, blow their ownselves up.”
I have read and heard knowledgeable Israeli experts who have said that there are no cases of a higher-up or any family of any higher-up, becoming a shaheed.
Jeff:
But, how many suicide bombers actually blow themselves up? I submit that the percentage of bombers who actually blow themselves up is relatively low, especially compared to those who would like to blow themselves up.
Is it proper to tar the entire group of would-be suicide bombers, based merely on the actions of the few who actually do so?
I think not.
Overheard in a Palestine refuge camp:
Shaheen: So gracious master….then as you say when I go forth and visit the wrath of the all powerful Allah on the infidels, I shall find my reward in the house of our king, with 72 voluptuous innocents there for my every pleasure?
Shamlid: …Ummmm…. yes….that is right my faithful saheeb….Eternal bliss for your selfless sacrifice to our great cause… yes….
Shaheen:
Shamlid: What?
Shaheen: Hmmmm…. I was but pondering Master….
Shamlid: ….Yes?…What is it….
Shaheen: …Well as you say, the delicate flowers will be as renewed forever…
Shamlid: Yes…yes….No matter how many times you implant your Sceptor of pleasure, all is renewed….Why?
Shaheen: …It just seems…. Wouldn’t that be a bit like trying to open a Craftsmen power tools chest lock with a camel brush handle…over and over?
Shamlid: Cursed be to the Great Satan Shamleen….you know I like you a lot grasshopper….but sometimes you can be a really ungrateful little prig…