So if it isn't desperation, what is it? Articles / War Date: Sep 19, 2004 - 07:20 PM |
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Hope. Hope fuels terror. Is it the hope that the threat of beheadings can change policy for a whole country (and amazingly turned that country's foreign policy over to unelected religious leaders, according to Bertrand Badie of l'Institut d'études politiques in Paris who complains that French Muslims became “a sort of substitute for the French foreign ministry.”) ? Is it the hope of creating a utopian Greater Islamic World (Atta's hope)? Is it the hope of riding the backs of those who carry Atta's utopia as their goal to maintain power and as a bonus rid themselves of pesky Jews once and for all (Arafat, who make no mistake, is all about maintaining power and killing Jews, not peace.) If it were desperation for peace, many of the people who claim to be desperate for peace could have had it at on any number of occasions in the past- they just weren't really desperate for it. Instead we see fighting while planning for peace, attacking Churches and then hiding for shelter in Mosques, while regrouping to attack again, just as soon as the ink on the ceasefire has begun to dry. We're being told that the root cause of all this terror is desperation. We're told this because it makes us want to respond with compassion and aid. After all, what else is suicide but a cry for help? How can we repair, wipe away the hopelessness that leads to suicidal bombings? This is effective reasoning, it tugs at our heart-strings, but it ignores a central reality of the bombers' motivation. These are intentional, planned acts of men and women, designed to bring out compassion for the murderers. When we feel compassion towards those who commit barbarous acts, we are less inclined to resist. It is a hard task to feel compassion and iron-fisted discipline and determination with the same hand, and we err on the side of compassion. This hope of success, of undermining resolve, is the cause that motivates continued acts of terror. Defeat this hope and you defeat terrorism. If we can show terrorists and those who sponsor them that terrorism will be thoroughly punished, it will cease. Now, I want to point out that beheadings are not the attempt to gain our compassion. They are an attempt to cow Americans and the West into submission, in an eventual hope to create more Muslim states at home and abroad. I'm not making this up. "But they also addressed their ultimate goal, one so controversial that it is a key reason they have operated in secrecy: to create Muslim states overseas and, they hope, someday in America as well." quote from a casual observer to my earlier posts:
And Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Hamas leader, may his name be erased and his memory forgotten, was a pediatrician. Who sent children to die. |
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