And when they replace the controllers with computers then the machines won't have relatives to worry about when missions demand that they put down some town that isn't paying its taxes. Yeehaw. Love those elites.
Facing certain death is not courageous - no, no, no - but bombing from a distance, maybe at the controls of some drone while thousands of miles from the people you are killing who couldn't possibly reach you and don't even have the weapons to reach your remote controlled plane is brave. Firing a missile from the comfort of your chair is the profile in courage. You know you aren't saying what normal people in the world say - you are speaking the PR tripe that not even all Americans believe just because you have to say that what Americans do is morally superior, even if it's vile.
Timothy McVeigh parked his bomb and walked away - letting it kill while he was safely out of range and he didn't have to see his victims. That is what the US military does all the time. And you are right - it isn't courageous.
One of these things is not like the others. You have an odious form of blindness.
Well, I think Fluffy wants to point out is that these terrorists actually thought it was the right thing to do, and offered themselves up to that cause. But then again, if they also really think there's a good afterlife waiting for them, then that action is as evil as the banker's drones.
1) Seen from the other side, were all those people who helped run the machinery of oppression really innocent?
If the terrorists seriously believed that killing hundreds of innocents was the right thing to do... Then it STILL isn't courage, it's dementia. There is ALWAYS a better alternative than random killing. One only has to look at the examples of Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, Galileo, or hundreds of thousands of others who have practiced real and peaceful change to see that.
Of course they don't. They were killing the guilty. They struck at the command center of world domination and those killed were the soldiers of the regime.
Hypothetical: You are from a village where all your family, aunts uncles, cousins, etc, etc and just about everyone you ever knew lives and that village is about to destroyed by a drone attack. Not one of the drone pilots is technically "guilty" because they are all just doing their job and following orders. They can't possibly know who is about to die but take it on faith the the village is crawling with insurgents that want to randomly kill Americans and take away their freedom. You, by some miracle, have just been given a truck bomb. Will it take courage to drive into the command and control center destroying it and killing all (random) people within to save the lives of all those you love? Or will it require dementia?
1) the killings at the towers were not random, precisely because the towers were targeted. Random is somewhat overused and generally utterly inaccurate but it makes us feel morally superior to believe that when others kill it is insane and random.
Or the millions of people whose names we can never know because they were squashed and extinguished with barely a trace. Go tell the protesters of Bahrain, or the monks of Burma, how effective peaceful protest is - if you can find some still living.