Dressed to Kill

Treachery is the mentality of islamists; they'll do whatever they can without regard for women children or whomever's innocense they rob. War suck but good beats treachery every time. It may take a few years for them to sicken themselves with their antics. But hey, their a 1000 years behind anyway. What did you expect, civility from savages? And obama just wants them to fight it out on their own. Sounds like they're in the dying throughs; time to send in the women because the men are too scared!! hehe...

The root of the problem is U S greed for oil.We sacrifice our young men for oil,so whats the big deal about women dying.Greed has no soul and its followers.

It's so wonderful that women have equal rights when it comes to dying, too bad their rights don't extend to anything else in these countries. Why are we surprised that the number is increasing, what choice do they have to say no!! What does all this blood shed reap? What victory can they claim when all their future lays bleeding in the dirt? It's very clear that war is the major export in these regions, if there was peace the citizens would start to hold their governments accoumtable for making their lives terrible.

As poorly as women are treated in most of the Muslim culture, you would think that more of them than the privileged men would take the "easy way out". Somebody, help me with this. I know I must be wrong, but you need to lay it out for me so that I can understand some of this madness.

This most imposing question begs for an answer. We've been told many times that many of the suicide bombers are expecting a number of virgins to be available to them after pulling the bomb switch in the middle of a crowd of innocent people who had obviously violated Hipparchus's rule of not seeming to be threatening to the suicide bomber, lest he wouldn't have tried to blow them up. Likely, their innocence offended the bomber. Else, why would he try to harm them? Anyway, the question that begs for an answer is, "what do female suicide bombers get for committing suicide, in lieu of virgins, for which they would have no need?"

Most of those who were actively engaged in the fighting during the Crusades/Muslim Conquests would be considered ignorant by today's standards. Why many of you continue to argue today's strife using examples from the past is beyond me. A lot of you have valid points, but "Those that forget history tend to repeat it." If you can't figure out the implied meaning in this, don't worry, it only proves my point. Do I have solutions to the current situation? Yes, but only as they apply to today's situation. Most are really clean, while a few are extrememly bloody. The clean solutions being the most preferred and having the greatest chance at success. Freedom to determine how you live your life is desired by all mankind, from the far-left to the extreme right. Those who feel their desires being threatened are more likely to strike out at those who have different beliefs. The question today should be how do we go about our lives in a way that is not perceived to be threatening to those who believe differently from us. Isolationism or War? I would rather give them the same choices that I have today and wait to see where it takes them. Most of you won't be able to understand what I mean, but for those that do I applaud your innovative thinking.

It looks like we are really winning now. They have been reduced to using women to fight their battles. If they (the women) are so concerned with the "occupation" why are they killing Shiites and not Americans ? The Iraq war hopefully is showing the Arab world that making a bargain with the devil (suicide bombings i.e. in Israel) would come back to haunt them (i.e. suicide bombings in Mosques)... Mark

Quit giving tax money to these nuts. They will start teaching this in school and we will be just like the Mideast, bombing each others' religions all the time.

Your conservative views have put us in this suicide bombing war in the first place.

When countries go to war and kill people, they do it for patriotism. There are rules of war between countries about how they can and cannot kill. When religions go to war and kill people they do it for God. There are no rules between religions about how they can and cannot kill. The individuals who carry these killings out are under orders from their countries in one war and under orders from God in the other. Apparently, from the evidence throughout the ages, God really doesn't give a damn how you do it, and there you have your ancient Christian Crusades and your current suicide bombings and beheadings in the Mideast. This is the absolutely stupidest war in the history of personkind. We have put our troops in a position where they are charged with finding hidden weapons on women while they are under orders not to look at them. I cannot wait to pee on George Bush's library.

Your suggestion of a solution, to "...improve the socioeconomic opportunities for women by providing them with basic necessities such as education for their children, protection for their personal safety and equal rights" is almost laughable. These women are victimized into sucide by radical Islamic thinking, and Western liberal soultions like you suggest surely will not work.

Farhana, when do you expect Islamic suicide-toddlers and Islamic suicide-babies to arrive on the scene, and what will their "motivation" be? (aside from the obvious motivation which is killing as many people as possible)