People:

I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer; after all I live in East Texas. Here is why I am confused. I have been listening to TV and NPR.They have been saying that the Taliban fighters are fierce; cause they believe that to die in battle will send them to paradise.

Now it seems to me that if we kill them we will be doing a service. Their mothers and fathers will know that they have gone down the good path. If we kill all of them then we will have done a great service to the people there.

There must be a hole in the logic; someone from East Texas just can't find it.

Gates

-- Gates (Gates@ETexas.com), September 18, 2001

Answers

They don't merely want to die. Else they would join Heaven's Gate. They want to kill us and don't mind dying in the process.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 18, 2001.

It seems that most of the Taliban have already fled Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), September 19, 2001.