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How to make a suicide bomber (Free verse) by Caducus

If I invaded your city told you how to live, who to worship spat on your brothers would you fight back? If I punished you Without proof By starving your children And shooting your people Would you accept it? If I went on television Shook the hand which strangled you The hand with a wedding ring that killed your pregnant wife would you honour her memory by doing nothing? If it were me And you destroyed my identity, Killed my brothers Criticized my God Labelled me a terrorist Decimated my way of life, Then maybe in my maddening I would strap a bomb to my chest Walk in to Starbucks And blow myself to smithereens. To be tomorrows news After the silicone model On page 4 labelled scum With no reason to say why I did it.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 14-Mar-05/12:52 PM
Am I going blind or something? You said this poeme was "A commentary on American policy in Iraq, and a good one." I don't think it's a good commentary on American policy in Eye-rak, for all the reasons mentioned in my thought for the day. That's why I asked Caducus if he had intended it as such. He said he hadn't mentioned any particular conflict, probably because he wanted to distance his poeme from parps that could ensue from sitting anywhere other than on the fence. He also had the common decency to comdemn suicide bombing, at least in cases where it is a product of religious zeal. The trouble is there doesn't seem to be any other kind of suicide bombing. Even kamikaze bombers were motivated by a form of imperial zeal; their reward may not have been eternal paradise, but as far as they were concerned eternal honour was pretty much the same thing. In fact, if you look carefully enough, you'll probably find that selfless individuals tend to have the courtesy not to explode themselves in crowded areas. In conclusion, the only documented case of a truly selfless suicidal attack occurs in Star Trek Generations, where Captain Kirk manages to stop Soran, but at the expense of being crushed by a bridge :(




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