06-19-2006, 03:42 AM
Hello hello. Sorry for taking so long again.
Well, to be honest I wasn't expecting so many "un-guesses," but in retrospect I suppose it makes sense in Islam since God is considered to be the only one capable of judging. My question may have been poorly phrased, but my real interest was in seeing how people responded to the media's take on the situation. The U.S. media, as I said, is spinning the suicides as subversive tactics to exacerbate the "jihad against America." Others claim that it was caused by utter desperation and torture suffered by the Muslim prisoners. What aggrivated me about the entire debate is the two-sidedness of the entire thing (though this is a very common occurance in the America media.) I tend to think that it is impossible to lock people up, interrogate them, torture them, and hold them without charge or counsel for years and expect depression not to take its toll at some point. However, as they say in physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and I believe that the suicides will exacerbate the violence. That is not to say, however, that I blame the men who took their lives for exacerbating war. Unfortunatly, Americans have a huge problem with parellel logic, paradoxes, and anything that does not follow a staight line from point A to point B.
In short, I see the suicides as extremely unfortunate. I see the fighting and death they will spur as extremely unfortunate. But I see them as a natural outcome of gross human violations.
All of this death and mayhem could of course be curbed, slowed down, or even almost stopped if the U.S. would stop terrorizing the would with its military and homicidal perversion of capitalism.
Anyway, that was kind of a long rant, and I'm extremely tired, so I appologize if it makes no sense. I think it's time for a shower and some sleep. Maybe tomorrow I'll make better sense (though I think an abundance of free time is going to be the only thing that can keep me posting regularly here for more than two days a year :D )