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Originally Posted by Cowperson

That might explain a case or two but it hardly explains beheading people on videotape or strapping explosives and nails to yourself and walking into a hospital filled with fellow Muslims to blow it up.

Daily.

No, one does not explain the other nor does it excuse the former, the apparent murder of innocent civilians by Marines.

So these soldiers committed a crime out of misjudgement and stress..but a suicide bombing is purely a result of "evil" and hatred? You have no idea what that suicide bomber has seen or been through. Both instances are wrong, and both are atrocious acts. And both have stresses that caused them. However, you seem to be able to justify one of them.

Do you think Marines were promised an afterlife of vestal virgins and milk and honey if they murdered fellow Americans? Do you think Marines families were promised monitary awards if there son blew himself up? Do you think, as with many instances in Iraq, the families of bombers were threatened with extermination if the son or father didn't carrry out a suicide mission?

Different thing.

So is one more justifiable than the other? That's what some here seem to think..Let's give the American soldiers the benefit of the doubt because they're our boys. There's a reason behind what they did. But we don't have to attempt to understand the reasoning behind the other side.