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You know what's messed up..?

posted 9 years ago by noonoolala
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When Chris shoots the boy holding the explosive, the mother doesn't run up to check on her son, she runs over to him to get the bomb, only to throw it at the soldiers..
Talk about priorities...seems that her son wasn't important to her after all

So figuratively speaking, you give your child a task..and in the process of pursuing this task, he's severely injured...would you let him lay there for dead, as you skim right past him to complete this task you so significantly value?

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[–] timbermisc 9 years ago

Marxist Muslims that hide under electric blankets need re-education

[–] timbermisc 9 years ago

Islam is Imperialistic.

[–] Ddey65 9 years ago

Jihadists and communists are imperialists. That's why we've been fighting against them.

[–] pfarnell 9 years ago

the fact that a mother would allow her young son to be involved in the enterprise in the first place, seems to lend creedence to her priorities after he is shot down.
You could also add that it would be maybe quickly apparent that the boy was dead, anyway.

It also reminds one of the old Golda Meir statement about these kinds of matters things in that region.

[–] noonoolala 9 years ago

the fact that a mother would allow her young son to be involved in the enterprise in the first place

That's true, but i guess you could say they were vulnerable...they were witnessing their neighbourhood being torn apart. They believed the Americans were to blame, having assumed they were there to harm them. So the mother and son decided against resistance and opted to 'heroically' fight back. Initially, this was what i thought may have had been the mother's reasoning as to why she'd made her son attempt that bomb attack

You could also add that it would be maybe quickly apparent that the boy was dead, anyway

Yes, but at that time, wouldn't the mother realise her loss, wouldn't she mourn and at least hold her creation for the last time? Was throwing that explosive psychologically more important than attending to the loss of her child?

[–] ChazzJazz 9 years ago

Yes, but at that time, wouldn't the mother realise her loss, wouldn't she mourn and at least hold her creation for the last time? Was throwing that explosive psychologically more important than attending to the loss of her child?

you do realise its the whitewashing from Clint Eastwood and his writers?

http://myimpressionz.tk

[–] pfarnell 9 years ago

flatulence noise.

[–] pfarnell 9 years ago

they were witnessing their neighborhood being torn apart. They believed the Americans were to blame, having assumed they were there to harm them.

yes, that is invariably OUR rationale for such a thing...
I could tell you of the woman in --Yemen-- several years back this was, b4 that country too descended into sectarian war as it now is.
No American army or any other, was there in Yemen threatening or harming them.
She told of her several sons, I don't know how many there were, 4-5 maybe..

She said that her fondest wish was that they would become Shaheed "killing Jews and Americans".
So, I mean, you know..

Yes, but at that time, wouldn't the mother realise her loss, wouldn't she mourn and at least hold her creation for the last time?

yes, you would generally assume so..but I guess hesitating would also make his sacrifice in vain.

sigh...who knows.
Part of the problem in this entire thing, is we keep rationalising, reasoning, explaining, everything in our terms, on their behalf.
They're the French Resistance, they're this, they're that.It's because they're poor,except they often aren't, then it's because they're uneducated, except likewise they often are not, it's because they're oppressed, they're this and they're that...always in a collage of images familiar to us.
Ever since 9-11 we have attempted to go about the whole thing with those keys and tools.

[–] chuggliams 8 years ago

"...explaining everything in our terms on their behalf." That is one of the most sensible explanations I've heard for this whole mess; we see things from our own cultural perspective (obviously) and try to explain what we see as irrational & alien behaviour from that viewpoint.
It's the same for them, except that they don't don't try to reason why we do what we do- if it's against their type of religion, then it's wrong and should be punished.

[–] Joxerlives 9 years ago

You're assuming it was her son and not just some brainwashed orphan she was exploiting?

[–] Jeorj Euler 8 years ago

You're assuming it was her son and not just some brainwashed orphan she was exploiting?

That's a good point.