Free verse № 121393
How to make a suicide bomber
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.
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so sad.
~Autumn
Do you think the Britons would become suicide bombers?
Do you think the Iraqis wouldn't?
no names are named or places pointed at.
Who knows what we would do until we are forced into that situation. One point that comes to mind though is look how the English dealt with the Jacobites, and how the japs in the USA were treated after pearl harbour (mostly covered up) also texans have a unique way to deal with burglars - they shoot them. All I am saying is human nature is violent once we are oppressed.
For the record - i dont condone suicide bombers, this represents the common man driven over the edge and not the extremists who do it for 'paradise'.
Thanks y'all for commenting. It was worth it to see dark angels .cameo
The point is, do you think modern European or American people would become suicide bombers if put into a situation like that of Iraq or Palestine (or anywhere else with suicide bombers)? Do you think the Iraqis, Palestinians, or people wherever disposed to suicide bombing, would stop being disposed to it if they were put into a situation like, I don't know, modern Chelsea?
Maybe you mean if our cities were invaded, our worship commandeered (this incidentally isn't true), etc etc etc, we'd become something like the Iraqi insurgents - not suicide bombers. This is probably the case. But personally, I don't think Americans could ever become suicide bombers under any circumstances.
And what are the ingredients of the average suicide bomber? Has there been a single Middle Eastern suicide bomber who wasn't utterly seeped in a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam? Or whose propaganda did not originate under a totalitarian regime? How many free democracies do you know that sponsor terrorist training camps and regularly churn out suicide bombers from among their own people? Are they motivated by an urge to combat western oppression, or do they want to spend an eternity in paradise shagging virgins? Perhaps we should capitulate to such people, or at most contain them. There's no doubt that many have died as a consequence of the invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan; the real question is whether or not such a conflict was avoidable in the long term. Don't forget that people were dying there everyday, and would have continued to suffer under those regimes if we had merely contained them. And when those regimes collapsed, what then? Is the environment in a failed rogue state such that ordinary people have a decent chance of establishing a representative government, free from bloodshed? Or does power inevitably fall to the most vicious, most ruthless, most power-hungry sadist in the region? Are We back at square one, with a body count that continues to rise unbeaked?
âDemocracy begins at home,â they say. And I think that's true, in the sense that the majority have to want democracy before it can work. When more than 8 million Iraqis (about 59% of the population) turned out to vote, despite consistent threats from YOUR NOBLE SUICIDE BOMBERS that they would target polling stations, I think their commitment to democracy cannot be in doubt. Would any of that have been possible without military intervention? Iraq may yet go tits-up, and there can be little doubt we've made mastakes there, but if I know one thing for sure, it's that things aren't as simple as the default "AMERICA = NAUGHTY" dumpling you so lazily embrace :(
I am going to say something controversial, but what differentiates me from a suicide bomber is a Christian education and looking bulky without having to wear a belt of C4.
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