Reply #5: Why is the delivery system of a bomb so important? [View All]

[Jonathan50]

A bomb is a bomb is a bomb. Bombs kill people and destroy stuff.

A bomb dropped by an airplane, delivered by a cruise missile or shot out of a howitzer is still a bomb, it doesn't change the nature of the weapon.

What scares people about "suicide bombers" is that those people are ready and willing to die for what they believe in. Such a commitment substantially negates the technological advantage that we in the West have over those in the third world.

That is the true reason for the outcry against "suicide bombers", because it means that our superior technology cannot protect us from those that we make war against.

A suicide bomber is the moral equivalent of a cruise missile or an aircraft delivered bomb. The cruise missile neither knows nor cares who it kills or what it destroys. Killings by cruise missile are just as senseless as those by suicide bomber. Only the suicide bomber has greater moral courage than the one who launches a cruise missile at no danger to himself.