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Originally Posted by Chewbacca
To really go back on topic... Who cares about a bunch of thugs hellbent on blowing themselves up? We kill them at a much higher rate than they kill us, ( we overkill them SOBs) and there are more of us then them. Terrorists are a lesson in futile.
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The thing is, they don't really care if they die or not. If one of them kills one of you before dying then he'll die a hero. It's all about a different point of view. We are talking of people who are willing to kill themselves by flying a plane into a tower, just because they believe that it is something good that they are doing. In their personal beliefs what they are doing is good and what those who are against them are doing is evil. They believe in that at least as strongly as you believe in whatever you believe in.
Of course there are those who would try to abuse their beliefs and use them for their own means. History has shown that that can be done with any religion, or even any beliefs (ex: political) people have. It is easy to sacrifice someone for a cause, knowing that they are willing to do it. American soldiers are being sacrificed for a cause in Iraq, just as Palestinians are sent by a bomb-maker to an Israeli market to die for a cause or thousands of crusaders were sent to the Holy Land to die for a cause. They either believe in what they are doing, or they have a strong enough reason to not want to appear to not believe (be it fear, coercion,...).