Culture of Death
Today, four bombs went off in the London Underground and 33 people died. America has 9/11 and England now has 7/7. Some lucky number.
George W. Bush, in Scotland for the G8 summit conference, had this to say:
I'm not at all convinced, even now, that the President or his cronies "care deeply about human rights and human liberty" - his actions over the course of his administration suggest that he has very different priorities - but as much as I believe that he's done almost nothing right since he was "elected," he's right about this.
Western culture is based, among other things, on the belief that life is better than death. Terrorism, on the other hand, sees that belief as a weakness. That's why terrorists can convince themselves that their own lives are meaningless, and that those lives are best used to kill other people, particularly their enemies.
I have no idea whether the bombs in London's Underground were suicide bombs or not, but either way, those who planted them clearly assumed that the lives that would end were less important than whatever it is those people wanted to get. Shame on them.
Benshlomo says, Some things are more important than life, but death is not one of them.
George W. Bush, in Scotland for the G8 summit conference, had this to say:
The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill, those who have such evil in their heart that they will take the lives of innocent folks.
I'm not at all convinced, even now, that the President or his cronies "care deeply about human rights and human liberty" - his actions over the course of his administration suggest that he has very different priorities - but as much as I believe that he's done almost nothing right since he was "elected," he's right about this.
Western culture is based, among other things, on the belief that life is better than death. Terrorism, on the other hand, sees that belief as a weakness. That's why terrorists can convince themselves that their own lives are meaningless, and that those lives are best used to kill other people, particularly their enemies.
I have no idea whether the bombs in London's Underground were suicide bombs or not, but either way, those who planted them clearly assumed that the lives that would end were less important than whatever it is those people wanted to get. Shame on them.
Benshlomo says, Some things are more important than life, but death is not one of them.
posted by benshlomo at 10:01 AM
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