Suicide bombers aren't cowards. No matter what anyone says, or how the media labels them, it takes a certain amount of backbone to strap a couple of blocks of C4 to your belt and then push the buttom. An amount that I don't think I have, so I guess you could call me a coward. I remember talking about this in the US Embassy Bombing thread and said something to the effect of: Imagine if the Russians invaded the US, preceded by a massive Shock And Awe campaign. Every state capitol razed, the White House, Congress, every military base worth anything, every vacation home of the president and his aides, every place the president slept in the past 6 weeks, gone, pretty much overnight. Then the invading army rushes in, kills our overwhelmed and outgunned troops in a fight so one-sided as not to be even remotely fair, then sets up shop in all our major cities, disregarding our religious and cultural customs, shooting at anyone who looks hostile with no repercussion for unwarranted deaths, rounding up most men over 18 in the middle of the night and marching them out to desert concentration camps with bags over their heads, and then having the audacity to say they were doing it for our own good. I can guarantee you, we'd be the ones running trucks into buildings then, and we would care who got caught in the blast.

One man's suicide bomber is another man's freedom fighter. It's just a matter of perspective. Are the suicide bombers shredding buses over in the Gaza strip doing the right thing. No. They're targeting only civilians. If they wanted to do something right, they could start targeting checkpoints and Israeli soldiers. But I'm also looking at it from a somewhat disinterested point of view, a couple thousand miles away.

Adrian