The West continues to ignore the cult of death at its own risk

[dArKeR]

By David Brooks
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
Wednesday, Sep 08, 2004,Page 9

We've been forced to witness the massacre of innocents. In New York, Madrid, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Baghdad and Bali, we have seen thousands of people destroyed while going about the daily activities of life.

We've been forced to endure the massacre of children. Whether it's teenagers outside an Israeli disco or students in Beslan, Russia, we've seen kids singled out as special targets.

We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world. This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergarten kids to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder.

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[Webster Green]

1. I don't understand why the writer thinks they are being ignored...

Thats all we ever hear about now.

[thebigidea]

2. ugh. David Brooks. Disgusting...

and isn't this like the 3rd posting of this or somesuch?

"This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergarten kids to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder."

Besides the kindergarten thing, hmmm - kinda sounds like the neocon set that Brooks is a proud member of, doesn't it.

[ixion]

3. it's tragically ironic that these lists he keeps tossing out ignore

the mass killings at the hands of US forces.

Convenient omission, no?