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Originally Posted by Jamroll
Well it could be that the Arabs like many oppressed populaces recognise that with war comes a dismantling of the existing status quo and power structure. And maybe they want that, even it means people lose their lives along the way. "Oppression is worse than slaughter...".
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yeah i agree, i think the root is that they want change. A scenario of all-out armageddon against any and all enemies, with a guarantee of victory because of the certainty of direct intervention by God himself on their side, would obviously lead to major changes that many people probably want.
I think you hit the nail on the head, except for the last part because its extremely rare for Arabs to want to be slaughtered, and I can tell you that when people imagine this stuff, they dont think about their children being killed or their siblings or elders, which is what a slaughter entails, they think about themselves being gloriously martyred along with other heroic soldiers as an embodiment of national and religious sacrifice, and being remembered for that sacrifice and its enduring victory. Thats the image that is flouted all over the nationalist government run media as well as the underground propaganda of insurgent groups in Iraq, Palestinian liberation movements, and anti-government factions in other arab countries. Nobody wants their families to be chopped up with machetes like the tutsi in rwanda or incinerated in giant firestorms or nuclear explosions
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