Ravi
Diamond Member
This article makes some interesting points.
The Boston Marathon Suspects Are Killers, Not Combatants - The Daily Beast
Somebody who bombs a crowd of spectators or executes a cop as he sits in a patrol car is not a combatant, though he is truly an enemy of America and the rest of humanity. He is a killer.
To call him anything more than that is to play into the hands of our larger enemy, one that is harder to counter than any individual jihadi or even any particular organization.
The thornier threat America faces is that jihad has become a mechanism for losers of all sorts to obtain a sense of power and purpose.
Look at the individual hijackers who brought down the Twin Towers on 9/11. Each was almost certainly acting not so much out of true political or even religious conviction, as from some psychological need to become more than what they otherwise felt themselves to be.
These were not victims of oppression made stony-hearted by suffering and injustice, and driven to fight a larger power with the only means at hand. These were guys who felt little who wanted to feel big.
The Boston Marathon Suspects Are Killers, Not Combatants - The Daily Beast