demagogue on 26/1/2011 at 01:58
Quote Posted by the_grip
I have never understood why terrorists think suicide bombing actually works. If anything, it embitters the other side even further (not to mention the cowardice involved in pulling it off and the absolute evil that it is).
Because historically a measure of violent resistance has given some secessionists advantage in negotiations. Ireland, Algeria, many of the de-colonizations in Africa and S.E. Asia, Palestine if they hadn't torpedoed the deal they got in 2008 (Arafat took his early game plan practically straight from Michael Collins). Others haven't been successful.
There's also been non-violent resistance that's been effective too, South Africa, India, black civil rights in the US.
And one big problem with independence built on terrorism or violence is that that, even if they get their independence or self-rule, violence either survives into the new regime or there's a painful process of de-arming and de-radicalizing the old resistance groups.
Starrfall on 26/1/2011 at 02:23
Too bad this didn't happen in America, the body scanners would have saved everyone.
Kolya on 26/1/2011 at 05:00
There are body scanners in the arrival area of American airports?
Renault on 26/1/2011 at 08:05
Why do people continually target video games as being the cause of these things? There are probably hundreds of movies where a terrorist bomb goes off that have more in common with the recent event than MW2. I love how they say that terrorists "may" be using the game as a training tool, with of course absolutely nothing remotely concrete to base it on.
Koki on 26/1/2011 at 08:22
Quote Posted by Brethren
I love how they say that terrorists "may" be using the game as a training tool, with of course absolutely nothing remotely concrete to base it on.
This just in: everyone who visits kotaku may be retarded
Quote Posted by the_grip
I have never understood why terrorists think suicide bombing actually works. If anything, it embitters the other side even further (not to mention the cowardice involved in pulling it off and the absolute evil that it is).
The idea is they scare common people who don't want to die horribly in an explosion, and then the common people vote for meeting the terrorists' demands. Too bad Chechens forgot Russia is not a democracy!
PS: Revenge is also good, Russians have killed quite a few Chechen civilians over the years
PS2: I fail to see how blowing yourself up for your country is cowardly, I bet ten bucks you wouldn't do it
PS3: [spoiler]has no games[/spoiler]
[Edit]Oh hey, quality content on the new page
jtr7 on 26/1/2011 at 09:00
Movies do get blamed. Leo DiCaprio walking into a classroom decked out in leather, and then mowing down his classmates, was cited as inspiring a famous school shooting.
I think video games get more of a bad rap because there is less parental guidance, many more hours are spent with a single title, and the viewers are also participants, instigators, rewarded on several levels movies don't provide for committing fake atrocities, commonly heard loudly celebrating awesome and brutal kills. If people screamed during movies the way they do over headsets while playing online shooters/RPGs, and showed that much bigotry and senselessness that openly at the theatres during particular films, those films would come under fire. The fake trailer for Machete, aimed at Arizona, got a lot of flack for inciting negativity rather than promoting a constructive solution, and the filmmakers had to clarify that it wasn't what the film itself was about.
Koki on 26/1/2011 at 09:09
Or, you know, the whole interactivity thing? Taking an active participation in events in the game? Unlike a movie where you just watch some guy do stuff?
You know, just a hunch
SubJeff on 26/1/2011 at 11:26
Quote Posted by Brethren
Why do people continually target video games as being the cause of these things? There are probably hundreds of movies where a terrorist bomb goes off that have more in common with the recent event than MW2. I love how they say that terrorists "may" be using the game as a training tool, with of course absolutely nothing remotely concrete to base it on.
Just the usually idiocy.
No one takes these cruddy journalists to task on the issue and even if they did do you think we'd see that discussion? Look at Fox news and the Mass Effect "porn" nonsense. Ignore them.
catbarf on 27/1/2011 at 00:24
Quote:
Too bad Chechens forgot Russia is not a democracy!
PS: Revenge is also good, Russians have killed quite a few Chechen civilians over the years
Did I miss something here? No group has been specifically identified as being behind the attack, and according to Putin, it
isn't related to the Chechen Republic.
