On this United States heroes day, I note from
an article in the July 9 issue of The New Yorker (p.34ff),
concerning the current Islamic strategy of
suicide bombing Israel:
(1) Parents want their children to grow up to be
suicide bombers, but they want the child to make
his own decision.
(2) Persons with suicidal tendencies are
not permitted to become suicide bombers. You
must love life to be allowed to be a suicide bomber.
(3) Unlike other mortals, suicide bombers do not
suffer in dying. (Note: There is real evidence for this.
Heinz Kohut's excellent essay "On Courage" gives
the psychoanalytic background.)
(4) Marwan Barghouti, Fatah leader who
is suspected of materially facilitating
anti-Israel terrorist acts, "is afraid of
assassination" (p.38).
The moral I wish here to draw from items #1 thru 4 is that
if your job is to lead suicide bombers, then
it is a job responsibility to keep from
dying for your cause.
Thus we see how Adam Smith's "invisible hand" and
Hegel's "cunning of reason" (not to mention
the Will of Allah, et al....) all work synergistically to reward
a person to get a good education
so that the person can get a leadership job
helping his people [kill themselves] and
thereby enjoy all the good things in life,
during a very long life,
including the joy of desiring with all his
heart each day to die for his cause but
being prevented from doing this by selfless devotion,
and knowing that he has never taken even a speck
of dust for himself
but has given all to his people [including submitting
to protection by his armed guards and being
chauffeured around, etc.!].
"Ojala!"
+\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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