Comments on: Stopping the Suicide Bomber

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:13:08 +0000

I think this question of “the good” is always pivotal for me. Scientifically speaking- peace as a principle can only beget peace. and since peace is good, thus that which is good is a means to its own end. No other means to a peaceful end will work than that action. To philosophically realize this, one cannot have despair govern one’s identity, but hope. Thus poverty and class systems are intrinsically oligarchical in nature, as they deprive from both the slave AND the master the liberty to realize the commonality in the human soul which is of the same potential- negating any means of a truthful sense of hope and love in anyone.

But what means do we have at elevating that most subjective sense of identity in the end to realize that potential? Free will must be taken into account, of course, and freedom too.

Was there ever a system existant upon the earth which most approximated this?

By: Jeff KHAN

Jeff KHAN — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:12:42 +0000

What else can we do?
What kind of other weapons do we have today to stop usa and israel?
What would have happened in Iraq and Afghanistan if usa did not meet any kind of resistance in those countries?
Would there not have been bordells and bars in every corners in evry street in evry city\toen? Or a lot of other “funny” things in the name of democrasy?
Regarding Pakistan and all these sicide bombs, i think this is the price we must pay for all those wasted years. When we could have given them education but did not.
With no education to think or reason, THOSE WHO COMIT, it will be no surprise if this is SOME TIMES masterminded by jews or hindus. If these were our uwn “heroes” why do they always hit civilians?
May be the points is not to take out the leadership, but to destabilize the country? To criple it economily? To spare the pro-western leadership? So it get even more western dependent.
BTH How much did pejja invest in education sector during all these years?

By: G N Quadri

G N Quadri — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:18:54 +0000

Again a good article that provides food for thought. The reasons or motivation behind Pakistani young men willing to lay down their lives, hold true but I feel they are being taken advantage of by vested interests with hidden agendas; such people do not care two hoots for the young people they send to their certain death, leaving behind loved ones (in many cases aged parents) to mourn them.

By: joed

joed — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:04:41 +0000

Anwaar, thanks for the fine article.

I am at a loss. it just seems to me that the suicide bomber is a desperate person doing what he or she thinks will help to relieve the suffering, opression and misery that is their every day life. my guess would be that an educated wealthy healthy young person would become a suicide bomber with thoughts of helping to relieve the suffering of others. but that is just a guess on my part.

being a caucasian american doesn’t help me to understand but i am empatheic to all humans.
it seems to me that the opressed can not opress the opressor. seems to me the suicide bomber is justified in his attempt to get the opressor out.

it is truly a human way isn’t it.

something else that i find truly human is how the israelis, after the genocide on them in europe, how they can turn around and do the same to the palestinians. certainly palestinians have a right to do whatever they can to stop israel from killing them all. desperate people do desperate acts.

anyway anwar, i have tried to add to the conversation. thanks again for the fine articles and i look forward to the next one.

By: Jonathan Stephenson

Jonathan Stephenson — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:05:04 +0000

Puppet state or not, the same things to which you speak Anwaar are now happening in the US itself, this problem goes beyond nations, it goes straight to mens hearts, and their greed. It has always been the case that the absolute poorest, most down-trodden people are too weak, too scared to rise up and act, even at the point of starvation and imminent death. It is this fact that has allowed thousands of people with weapons to starve to death and murder millions over and over again, in all areas of the world, and under hundreds of different cultures. It is always been the case that it is the middle classes and some of the rich, seeing their own time coming in a distant future, who rise up and fight the system any way they can. History teaches us that this is not something new, but a repeating pattern since history has been recorded and undoubtedly long before that.

The real lesson to be learned is that capitalism always leads to this result, even more so than totalitarianism, and that those few periods in history where the world has been at peace are the result of socialist systems where the wealth is shared to a much greater extent than possible under any other system. Human nature tends toward evil, it takes a system that moderates human nature’s most base desires to stem the most base instincts of man and his greed.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:12:30 +0000

Stopping the suicide Bomber (in Pakistan?)

Suicide bombing is used as a weapon of last resort by those who are over-powered by powerful weapons-laden regimes.

Pakistan is a puppet of the USA—and the Pakistani people know it. They know that there is no weapon other than suicide bombing that will throw fear into their oppressors.

If the USA wants to stop suicide bombing in Pakistan—the USA should pull its troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq—and use them to invade Pakistan—to depose the USA-Puppet government there—and to create a real democracy there. Having done that the USA must pull every troop out of Pakistan—so that Pakistan would no longer be a puppet-state of the USA.

Let’s stop pretending that Pakistan is not a puppet-state of the USA.

Bob