Originally Posted by
ETWolverine
Clete,
This is not the first time that Muslim terrorists have underestimated their enemies.
They think that they are the masters of suicide attacks using airplanes. They forget that the Japanese perfected this technique 6 decades before they used it.
They think that they are the only ones capable of living in austerity to fight for a cause. They forget that the Spartans perfected suffering and self-sacrifice as a method a training for war long before their societies ever came into existence.
They think that they are the masters of torture and execution and brutality. They don't realize that the rest of Asia and Europe have long histories of torture, execution and brutality of prisoners. They INVENTED most of the methods of torture used by terrorists today.
And now they are underestimating the feirceness of how others will fight for their land, believing that they are the only ones who have the will to fight to the death.
While the rest of the world shouldn't be proud of our accomplishments in these areas, neither should we shy away from them. And we shouldn't allow the brutality of the enemy sway us from our willingness to fight. We've already seen everything they've got, and we've done MUCH worse ourselves over time. There's nothing the terrorists can do that we haven't seen before and can't handle.
Just something to think about.
Elliot