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Cowardly bombings SUCK

I don't know if use of the term 'cowardly' is warranted. Sneaky, unwarranted, unprovoked, etc... maybe but the perpetrators in a suicide bombing get blown to bits as a result of their action. A kamikaze-like attack hardly sounds like what a coward would do IMHO. It takes courage to sacrifice one's life, no matter how misguided the cause.

Live And Let Die (Wings)
 
dennilfloss is exactly right! You may think the attack was underhanded or whatever. But I would NOT call it "cowardly".
I think that people anywhere in the world, who lay down their lives for their beliefs cannot be categorized as "cowardly".
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I agree with their cause. Just that they shouldn't be viewed as "cowardly". "Heroism" is in the eye of the beholder.

BTW...
If he is causing the US so much trouble and resources...
Why not just raise the reward 1 million per week (Ransom style), until one of his buddies turn on him?
 
Yes, as far as these people are concerned the US are the cowardly ones, waging war through Israeli proxies or from 40 000 feet in the air (bombing of Serbia, they wouldn't even let the Apache helicopters go in because of fear of casualties). These people are the genuine heros & martyrs, willing to sacrifice their own lives to drive the hated American imperialists & their Israeli pawns out of the Middle East.

This is not my point of veiw, but it's my understanding of there point of veiw. - I personally beleive America's policy as far as Kosovo was the correct one. They had no choice really but to bomb the Serbs to force them to stop persercuting the Kosovars. But as the Serbs had not made any direct attacks on the US, the policy of (as far as possible) not risking US servicemen was the right one -

The simple fact is that to overcome a conflict like this one has to come to an understaning about the motivation of ones opposition.
 
I disagree. If they placed a destroyer 100 yards off the shores of New Jersey, and an American group blew a hole in the side of their destroyer, whose side would you be on? A destroyer is a Navy war boat, and during times of unrest in the middle east, if you port in a dangerous harbor, you have to expect these things to happen. I don't condone the action, but I also don't condemn it either. I also do not consider it a cowardly act. Who was cowardly? Were the Kamakazi pilots cowards?

They consider this war, and are fighting with everything they have. Many people are at war with the US, whether or not the US wants to recongnize this fact or not.
 
I have to agree with dabanshee..a cowardly bombing would be a mail bomb or planting a bomb and splitting.. commiting suicide because of what you believe in shows commitment to an ideal and makes them martyrs to their sect.

I hate that they did it. I hate that people died .....I hate that its done.... but I don't think it was cowardly at least not by the people who actually did it..
 
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