The destruction left by these soldiers is harder to bear than anything we've seen in the past. It’s the reason we are afraid of most ideas such as death, change, or the possibility that we alone exist in the Universe. We fear the unknown and the incomprehensible.
To most, the term suicide bomber elicits an image of darkness. Someone stealthily weaving through a public point, rehearsing their instructions under a veil of normalcy and silent dialogue.
The problem that has edged our respective countries to the forefront of battle over and over again has been this glitch in communication; the inability to understand each other. The inability to look past the propaganda created by each side.
I searched for any ground that could be met with a shared logic. Anything that could bridge the divide caused by media in our daily lives.
I finally found that we are not so different.
Soldiers in our country enlist with the knowledge that they are serving America. They enlist knowing that war may ensue during their term of duty, and knowing that they may be injured or killed for the cause they represent.
The fact that they may be injured or killed is only a possibility. One that friends and families hope has a low probability for their recruit.
But, to any soldier, the cause of his country is worth every ounce of effort. To suicide bombers, it is worth every ounce of life.
When men, and now more increasingly women, join the ranks of this suicide neo-military, they join with the knowledge that death is a certainty. Death is a badge of honor for them as it is for us when our soldiers are killed in war. The difference is small.
Our soldiers are prepared to live, their soldiers are prepared to die.
Either can go awry, such as what happened on November 14, 2005 shows CNN Article when an Iraqi woman failed to detonate her bomb after her husband had successfully detonated his own.
Both of our sides wage war with the same ideas on our minds.
Honor for our country. Honor for our beliefs.
Soldiers enlist because they want to fight for a cause greater than themselves.
America still has an enemy. Our opportunity to understand them does not belittle our cause. The last time I checked, the saying went something like
“Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.”- Sun Tzu Wu, The Art of War
I hope America starts to battle the mind numbing effects of passive involvement.
"Honor for our beliefs." Personally, I don't feel as though suicide bombers are soldiers who are serving a Country selflessly as do American Soldiers(Did I say selfless? I meant for $$$). There is a recurring warcry and undertone within this society we are fighting and it is one of religion, god, and ultimately salvation. Suicide bombers don't blow themselves up with the belief their lives end there...they do it believing that they are increasing their chances of having a happy afterlife. How can that be compared to an American Soldier who probably doesn't feel that their duty is decreasing their chances for such a salvation, but rarely do they feel as though their duty is one that will increase their chances for salvation. I don't respect altruism that doesn't even attempt to hide it's selfish core, but rather promotes it as a recruiting tool.
Posted by: DP | January 12, 2006 at 07:08 PM
Anyone who thinks there is any logic driving suicide bombers; that they are anything but brainwashed tools of their sick perverted leaders has serious issues.
Posted by: blah | January 16, 2006 at 12:05 PM
Well, in reading your article and the comments posted, I felt as though everyone has touched on some respectable points. I believe that the suicide bombers are ignorant to most circumstances and follow the only beliefs that they were taught to know. As you can see, a rather frail mind is needed to pursue such extremes, no one ever sees a leader of the terrorists groups succumbing their lives for such beliefs. No, instead, they command and call on those who want to feel worthy of some sort of "honor".
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