Bahar: One would like to have some respect for those who would rather die than lose their dignity, but when it comes to Islamist suicide bombers, we cannot see how many they are, and therefore (perhaps with a grossly flawed reasoning that expresses the familiar Western prejudice about the mass mentality of the Other). ) It becomes difficult to maintain that respect after seeing how little they value life. It may help this dilemma to think of suicide bombings as a somewhat despairing reaction to America's (and Israel's) success in guidance technologies, which leaves its rivals far behind. US defense contractors are now envisioning a future of glorious warfare in which American personnel do not need to be actually present and robot soldiers (who are humans) electronically guided by technicians sitting on a battleship a hundred kilometers away or even in an operations room at the Pentagon rain down death on the enemy. They are working on the field. How can dignity be preserved in the face of such an adversary other than recklessly and wastefully rushing to death?

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One would like to have some respect for those who would rather die than lose their dignity, but when it comes to Islamist suicide bombers, we cannot see how many they are, and therefore (perhaps with a grossly flawed reasoning that expresses the familiar Western prejudice about the mass mentality of the Other). ) It becomes difficult to maintain that respect after seeing how little they value life. It may help this dilemma to think of suicide bombings as a somewhat despairing reaction to America's (and Israel's) success in guidance technologies, which leaves its rivals far behind. US defense contractors are now envisioning a future of glorious warfare in which American personnel do not need to be actually present and robot soldiers (who are humans) electronically guided by technicians sitting on a battleship a hundred kilometers away or even in an operations room at the Pentagon rain down death on the enemy. They are working on the field. How can dignity be preserved in the face of such an adversary other than recklessly and wastefully rushing to death?

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