120 Killed in 19 Car Bomb Explosions in Baghdad

The proportion of people who are killed or injured in suicide bomb attacks is small in relation the the total number of people who die or are injured in a day.
We have a fascination with blaming people for death and violence not understanding that death and violence are endemic to life in the troposphere.
It is not with each other that peace can be made. If you are peaceful then you will share that peace. If you are anxious you will share that anxiety

 

The best point made yet.

You might consider that these "terrorists" are acting as an army at war. A soldier is a hero when he faces his enemies in battle. A soldier who runs from the battle and kills unarmed civilians instead, is a coward, but the young person who is manipulated with religious dogma is as much a victim as those he kills. Therefore, the terms coward and victim are relative terms depending on motivation and circumstances that are likely unknown.

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theyll probably take advantage of the GI bill. So make that 130,000 college graduates.

This is really just a semantics argument, with both the media in America and terrorists training camps in the middle east using the words "coward", "hero", "duty", "honor", etc interchangably to suit their own agenda. All these words are relative.

A few years ago a man in Chicago (I can't remember his name but maybe you guys remember this too) burned himself in protest of the Iraq war. At the time I thought he was courageous. Now I know that he was bipolar and his suicide was probably just that; a suicide, not a protest. I am more inclined to think of him as a coward now.

As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, a lot of suicide bombers might be people who have already lost everything, who have no family or home, who have nothing but a cause. If you've already lost everything, is losing yourself really that courageous? Of course, some of the suicide bombers could have wives and children at home. Is honor to a cause to be exalted more than honor to one's family?

its all a matter of perspective.

 

Perhaps the United States could sell them fighter jets and tanks. Then they wouldn't blow themselves up anymore.

 

The organization generally targets deeply religious young men—although some bombers have been older. The recruits do not fit the usual psychological profile of suicidal people, who are often desperate or clinically depressed. Hamas bombers often hold paying jobs, even in poverty-stricken Gaza. What they have in common, studies say, is an intense hatred of Israel. After a bombing, Hamas gives the family of the suicide bomber between three thousand dollars and five thousand dollars and assures them their son died a martyr in holy jihad.
The recruits undergo intense religious indoctrination, attend lectures, and undertake long fasts. The week before the bombing, the volunteers are watched closely by two Hamas activists for any signs of wavering, according to Nasra Hassan, writing in the New Yorker. Shortly before the "sacred explosion," as Hamas calls it, the bomber records a video testament. To draw inspiration, he repeatedly watches his video and those made by his predecessors and then sets off for his would-be martyrdom after performing a ritual ablution and donning clean clothes. Hamas clerics assure the bombers their deaths will be painless and that dozens of virgins await them in paradise. The average bombing costs about $150.

If your claim is the "truth" how about backing it up with facts?

You just called them retards, now they're not even stupid.

How do you support your family after your dead? The money they make is less than 2 months salary, when you send your "breadwinner" to sacrifice him or herself that is not an act of bravery or desperation, grasping at straws seems more fitting.

What about the retaliation ? What if your actions get your family killed or your neighbors? Which it almost always does.

Recklessness should not be confused with bravery.

"gives their life" You've left out the part "even if it means killing scores of others in the same situation or worse as yours"