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| Impotence and suicide bombing | |
Statists on the left and right of politics seem to have been a little
surprised by the number of suicide bombers popping out (so to speak) in
Iraq. Hearing about some psychotic suicidal Muslim making a public
spectacle of himself by blowing himself (and often several hapless bystanders)
into more pieces than a space shuttle crew member seems almost a daily
occurrence. Having not collected statistics on the kill ratio of such events (ie the
number of dead bystanders versus the number of dead suicide bombers), a
guesstimate will have to suffice: it's probably around 3:1, which makes it a
pretty inefficient way to fight a war without population
superiority. It means that you have to have to start with more than one quarter
of the population of the enemy to actually win. Even at September-11 ratios, where
19 Muslim psychopaths managed to achieve a kill ratio of 150:1, they would
still need two million psychos to take out the American population. And that's
even assuming that the psychos had the same fertility rate as the rest of the
population. Most suicide bombers seem to be young and childless, so taking out
someone who already has 5 grandchildren is kind of pointless. So unless the Clerics can recruit two million suicide bombers and get them
US visas, the whole thing is
pretty pointless really. Likewise in Iraq - more people die in car
accidents than suicide bombings, so the population are not actually that
alarmed. And taking out two American soldiers a day from an army of around a
million? It might make good TV, but strategically it's a bit of a
giggle. There's no shortage of rednecks volunteering for a bit of Middle-Eastern target
practice. Suicide bombing is basically like a powerless infantile tantrum of an
objectionable teenager who wants something that no-one is willing to give
it. An annoying, but futile exercise, which serves to underscore their
immaturity and inability for objective thought and reason, and the refusal to
take responsibility
for their own problems. But every cloud has a silver lining - it does marginally reduce the
population of Islamicists. Maybe suicide bombing is Allah's way of pruning
psychos off the evolutionary tree? About
time Allah helped to clean up his mess!
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