On 3 Aug 2002 at 13:13, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [ben 1]
> Yes absolutely! I didn't mention it because in my mind that part of
> the solution goes without saying. Anyone who is still writing checks
> to the families of suicide bombers to encourage the creation of same
> obviously needs to go.
>
> [Joe Dees 2]
> Then that includes Saddam Hussein, who pays their families 50 grand
> per.
>
> [rhinoceros 3]
> Please keep it going as far as it gets. But I think I can overbid. Is
> it the suicide part or the bomber part that matters most. In either
> case, we can add a lot of families.
>
> [Joe Dees 4]
> It is the bomber part that matters to me (the murderous bomb placed at
> Hebrew University was left untended), but the fact remains that Saddam
> Hussein does indeed pay 50 grand per to the families of Palestinian
> suicide bombers, whose declared targets are US as well as Israeli.
>
> This is, of course, a substantial incentive for such families to
> acquiesce to, encourage and applaud one of their members' decision to
> become a suicide bomber; the bombers' parents and siblings materially
> benefit from the terror action.
>
> [rhinoceros 5]
> This might be true where life is cheap, i.e. telling your kids "you
> are going to be cannon fodder". But in reality this is not too
> different from hiring or conscripting an army of pilots and rocket
> launchers and buying their equipment.
>
I think that paying the families of suicide bombers to explode
themselves around groups of civilians is VASTLY different from
maintaining an army. I also think that most resonable people would
agree with me on this.
> Of course, there is the argument of legitimacy, but this point of view
> should not be expected to be comprehended in the same manner by the
> combatants.
>
>
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