Another suicide bomber blew himself up in Baghdad yesterday. This morning, on the news, another political analyst calling the attack a cowardly deed.
Call me stupid, but how can strapping 20 lbs of dynamite on your chest and then blowing yourself up for a cause you believe in be considered cowardly? It is criminal, it is inhuman, it is cruel, it is contemptible, just downright plain wrong and bad, but I am of the view that self sacrifice is not an act of a coward. It is the act of misguided extremist, but not someone who is lacking in courage.
Cowardly means a lack of courage. Look up the word courage and you find that it is "the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger or pain." I cannot even begin to imagine the kind of difficulty, danger or pain that a person has to go through to decide that blowing yourself up is an option on the table.
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