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The jihadists will never run out of those willing to do whatever they see as their "duty", and fear won't help,
there. I mean, if they aren't afraid of President Bush, then who will scare them?
We had a similar problem in Vietnam.
Americans and most other western cultural types tend to fear death and pain and suffering and hardship. A lot of this goes along with the cultural idea that the individual is more important than the body politic. It is a general concept, and does not apply to the specific very well. However, one of the problems the US had was in contemplating why a Buddhist monk would self-immolate as a method of protesting the war. To westerners, the idea that one would kill oneself to support a moral belief was unfathomable, whereas dying because somebody else sent one to die is lauded.
Now we are dealing with those in the Middle East, whose religion and culture tend to have the idea that one's fate is at the will and behest of one's God. Traffic rules, playing with explosives, unprotected sex, etc., tend to be viewed through the idea that if Allah wishes one to live, Allah will hold one in the palm of his hand and protect one.
Bush does not scare those in the Middle East because the only thing he can bring them is death, and they dont fear death the way westerners do.
Sinergy
p.s. One of the things that always amuses me about the Iraq War Cheerleaders and ardent Bush supporters is they have tied their wagons to an inarticulate bully who moonlights as a black-out drunk. He is their mascot, their shining example, the zenith of their intellectual and social achievements and hopes.
p.p.s. as far as the title of the thread, the rampant bigotry and intolerance of saying a black man needs to get "ghetto," while implying that "getting ghetto" involves being tough, presenting a show of force, invading a sovereign nation, under illegal and fraudulant pretenses, after pissing off all one's friends, etc., is something I find both shocking and amusing. I know how much you enjoy how George W. Bush has comported himself, but I really dont want to elect Barak Obama in order to do as dismal a job as the idiots the right had in power for the last 7 years have done.
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