[Agamemnon]

We don't know what 'we' would do. I believe we'd act the same as the 'terrorists', under identical circumstances, but I have no way to prove that, just as there is no way, currently, to disprove that. This is all opinion.

Its a strange opinion to have since you basically have nothing in history to really back it up . . . . which is evidence in itself to the contrary of your own thoughts.

Wishing it were so won't make it so.

Right. That's what I said in my post, there's no basis in history for this type of action. I also point out that Britain, nor any Western/Christian nation, has been taken over in the last 50 years (esp by a non-Christian state). My point, as I stated, is that we don't know. The British have never been put in that situation, so who knows how they would act? Who knows how Canadians would act? I think it's a little presumptuous for you to believe, definitevely, that suicide-bombings could not happen in Britain/Canada, as there's never been the situation/environment to allow for it (subjugation/marginlization).

If the Chinese invaded Canada and took over the place, would you or I really be motivated to strap bomb packs under our coats, travel to Beijing and explode ourselves in a crowded subway?

I think I'd be making a pretty bold statement if I were to claim "If Canada gets invaded, conquered, and exploited, no Canadian anywhere would suicide-bomb, because that's not our 'way'". There's no basis for this argument, just as there is no basis for the opposite.

I'm surprised you're so sure on a subject that doesn't really exist.

That's just not who we are.

I guess if you're the expert on 'who we are', then I'll have to bow down to your wisdom. I think 'who we are' is a people who do _not_ live in conquered desperation. How do you know 'who we are', hypothetically, under desperate circumstances? In the end, I'm saying it's 'possible'. You seem to be saying, with equal lack of evidence, that it is 'impossible'.