from George Carlin's Book "When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?"
SUICIDE BOMBER
No. Sorry to disagree; it's anything but suicide. A person who commits suicide is someone who places no value on his life:"My life is worthless, I'm going to end it." These so-called suicide bombers don't feel that way. They feel their lives are worth something, and that by giving them up they make a statement in the world, furthering a cause they believe in deeply. In their eyes, their lives (when sacrificed) have value. And, by the way, the "suicide bombers" themselves don't call it that. In a stunning example of euphemism, they call it a sacred explosion. Holy smoke!
"HOMICIDE BOMBERS"
And in spite of what Bush has been ordered to say, they're not homicide bombers, either. All bombings are intended to kill people, to produce homicides. Anyone who packs a bomb with nails and bits of steel, and sets it off in a public place, is hoping to commit homicide. This is true of any bomb, whether you drop it out of an airplane or leave in on a doorstep; you're hoping to kill people. Thats the purpose. Killing people. In the case of these so-called suicide bombs, what's different is that the poeple setting them off are intentionally ending their own lives in the process. Thats why we confuse the act with suicide.
COWARDS
Bush calls the Al Qaeda people cowards, and says, "They like to hide." Well isn't that what the American Continental Army did during the American Revolution? Our beloved patriots? They hid. They hid behind trees. Then they came out, killed some British soldiers, and ran away. Just like A Qaeda. Thats what you do when you're outnumbered, and have less firepower than the enemy. It's called "trying to win." It's not cowardly.
Bill Maher may have stretched the point a bit when he said that air force pilots who release their bombs from hundreds of miles away are cowards; flying combat jets doesn't attract many cowards. But it's not nearly as courageous an act as deliberately strapping a bomb to your chest and heading for the disco with no intention of dancing.
I will say this. Getting out of the Vietnam war through Daddy's connections and then not living up to your end of the bargain is probably a form of cowardice.
SUICIDE BOMBER
No. Sorry to disagree; it's anything but suicide. A person who commits suicide is someone who places no value on his life:"My life is worthless, I'm going to end it." These so-called suicide bombers don't feel that way. They feel their lives are worth something, and that by giving them up they make a statement in the world, furthering a cause they believe in deeply. In their eyes, their lives (when sacrificed) have value. And, by the way, the "suicide bombers" themselves don't call it that. In a stunning example of euphemism, they call it a sacred explosion. Holy smoke!
"HOMICIDE BOMBERS"
And in spite of what Bush has been ordered to say, they're not homicide bombers, either. All bombings are intended to kill people, to produce homicides. Anyone who packs a bomb with nails and bits of steel, and sets it off in a public place, is hoping to commit homicide. This is true of any bomb, whether you drop it out of an airplane or leave in on a doorstep; you're hoping to kill people. Thats the purpose. Killing people. In the case of these so-called suicide bombs, what's different is that the poeple setting them off are intentionally ending their own lives in the process. Thats why we confuse the act with suicide.
COWARDS
Bush calls the Al Qaeda people cowards, and says, "They like to hide." Well isn't that what the American Continental Army did during the American Revolution? Our beloved patriots? They hid. They hid behind trees. Then they came out, killed some British soldiers, and ran away. Just like A Qaeda. Thats what you do when you're outnumbered, and have less firepower than the enemy. It's called "trying to win." It's not cowardly.
Bill Maher may have stretched the point a bit when he said that air force pilots who release their bombs from hundreds of miles away are cowards; flying combat jets doesn't attract many cowards. But it's not nearly as courageous an act as deliberately strapping a bomb to your chest and heading for the disco with no intention of dancing.
I will say this. Getting out of the Vietnam war through Daddy's connections and then not living up to your end of the bargain is probably a form of cowardice.
