Comments on: Better educated suicide bombers carry out deadlier bombings

By: Merovign

Merovign — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:17:47 +0000

I think we’re misinterpreting “educated” here – I don’t think they’re talking about MBAs, they’re probably talking about people who have spent longer in the Madrassas and being educated in Islamic Law, psuedo-history, etc.

By: thedecider

thedecider — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:39:30 +0000

Sort of on topic, Christopher Hitchens has an excellent article out on City Journal regarding our long war with Islamist Facists. It's been going on since shortly after our nation was founded. It's still going on and will continue. In one part, he quotes John Adams as having said

“We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever.”

Amazing insight from our forefathers. If only today's Democrats would take a lesson from the men who wrote our constitution (the real one) and understand that freedom isn't free.

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:01:28 +0000

“There is a lot in trying to hide themselves in the local population without being detected. There is a lot to it, much more than a bystander would think,” Berrebi said…

In civilian clothes, no doubt, surrounded by children…. yeah, “there is a lot to it….”, and the Democrats say the war is “lost”, but these terrorists, if caught, get a lawyer, and civil rights.

Pathetic….

By: thedecider

thedecider — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:38:54 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks this guy sounds at least vaguely admiring?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on April 23, 2007 at 9:32 PM

I took it as coldly analytical.

By: Attila (Pillage Idiot)

Attila (Pillage Idiot) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:32:49 +0000

RAND economist Claude Berrebi, co-author of the report, said the findings show how intricate a suicide bomb attack really is. “The bomber has to decide in an instant whether to blow themselves up, to hide or to continue to a better target or to abort. There is a lot in trying to hide themselves in the local population without being detected. There is a lot to it, much more than a bystander would think,” Berrebi said

Am I the only one who thinks this guy sounds at least vaguely admiring?

By: thedecider

thedecider — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:08:46 +0000

We as economists believe that in regular labor markets people who are more talented, more educated, usually carry more sophisticated jobs.

If they keep blowing up their most talented and gifted people, then there’s almost no worry that they will have people capable of building anything more sophisticated than an IED or a bomb belt. It also assures their society will remain impoverished.

By: sonnyspats1

sonnyspats1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:08:06 +0000

HA HA HA WTF Oh well thats a lofty position to aspire to. head bomber. HA! I was going to apply for a position but there was no room for advancement. So the head line reads better educated bombers Huh? Sounds like their doin their post grad at Whats-A-Matta-U .

By: IrishEi

IrishEi — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:37:49 +0000

Not exactly No Child Left Behind, but it’ll do.

thedecider on April 23, 2007 at 8:28 PM

Actually, that’s precisely what it is!

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:30:58 +0000

These guys need to undergo a pre-mission detonation courtesy of the defense dept. Hey, they’re no worse off than if they go through with it, and we’re saved the carnage.

By: thedecider

thedecider — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:28:57 +0000

Not exactly No Child Left Behind, but it’ll do.

By: RedWinged Blackbird

RedWinged Blackbird — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:19:15 +0000

…it’s clear that they need more training in the basic act of blowing themselves up.

Exactly. Martyrdom 101 should include a laboratory curriculum. The last one standing moves on to Martyrdom 102.

By: morganfrost

morganfrost — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:12:34 +0000

However, given the relatively low rate of success of suicide bombers (even those with what passes for an education at a Palestinian “university”), it’s clear that they need more training in the basic act of blowing themselves up. I think that some of the foreign aid given to Palestinians should be used to explode them in their own classrooms at least once before sending them out as unqualified suicide bombers who might embarass their alma maters.

By: Kini

Kini — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:09:30 +0000

All they have is their hate They teach their children well.

By: RedWinged Blackbird

RedWinged Blackbird — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:08:43 +0000

Beyond that, I doubt education per se has much to do with this except as a rough metric for native intelligence.

Expertise in martyrdom is not something you learn from experience.

By: Professor Blather

Professor Blather — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:02:10 +0000

See? I knew 11th grade calculus would pay off.

By: Theworldisnotenough

Theworldisnotenough — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:49:17 +0000

Then again, we are talking about the Palestinians here. If there’s no masters program yet for bombmaking at Gaza U, just give it time.

HEH! They better work on aqueducts first.

By: Mr. Bingley

Mr. Bingley — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:48:13 +0000

Gosh, and here I was thinking it was only us guys in our 40s who detonate too early.