No. It's all psychological manipulation. Just about the worst evil imaginable.
In a separate prison interview with The Associated Press, with interrogators nearby, the woman said she was part of a plot in which young women were raped and then sent to her for matronly advice. She said she would try to persuade the victims to become suicide bombers as their only escape from the shame and to reclaim their honor.-- (02-03) 12:55 PST BAGHDAD, (AP)The cure is to allow that society to return to normalcy. The very sick and twisted people who enable and encourage this sort of thing have to die out without replacement. That will take time. During that time the society needs to be relatively healthy, i.e. engaged constructively with the modern world. This will require at least as long as the thirty years it took to get to this state. That of course is assuming a best-case scenario without significant interference by her Machiavellian neighbors.
McCain's alleged "hundred years of occupation" makes sense to me. And I would not be willing to bet that there won't still be American troops there when Obama leaves office.
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I remember reading something once about how the vast majority of suicide bombers had some sort of physical defect that made them easy targets for recruitment.
On another point, I'm not sure how being in Iraq for 100 years is supposed to allow terrorists to die without replacement, since by all accounts occupation has swelled their ranks beyond all imagination.
In my view the best thing to do is disengage and allow the terrorists to kill themselves over the plethora of regional differences that are currently on the back-burner, or, better yet, cease to have reason to be terrorists altogether.
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