On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 02:30:15 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:


Your question seems to presume that the behavior of those who commit
irrational acts is guided by successful results. I'm not so sure that
is the case. Terrorists are obviously not constrained by rationality,
so expecting a rational response seems unwarranted.

Larry, please don't take this as an attack because I don't intend it
that way, but you should not assume that because the Islamic
terrorists have had a series of successful attacks against civilian
targets that they are not rational.

To them, the attacks are extremely rational. It's literally the only
attack they can be successful at. It doesn't matter if western
thinking cannot comprehend the point of such attacks. THEY think they
are useful, or they would not be making them.

In a way it's like the Kamakaze attacks on US Navy shipping during
WWII, only worse, because the Japanese weren't attacking because of a
religious fervor and they only attacked military targets. This thing
is religion based, but it's based on an apparently warped
interpretation of the Koran. But that doesn't matter to them. To the
people who believe in this Islamic Jihad, it's the most rational thing
on earth, or they could not be persuaded to die for the cause.

Corky Scott