roachboy

false bind.

how about the socio-political or economic conditions and lack of any sense that there is meaningful redress inside the existing political system that makes of an action like suicide bombing and the political frameworks that orient it a viable-seeming alternative?


of course there's always a certain percentage of wingnuts who'll approach such actions otherwise, but in the main these are political actions shaped by particular types of experience of particular social and political situations.

these are most often pretty specific states of affairs--situations like the israeli colonial occupation of the west bank and gaza for example.

and these states of affairs have to be pretty fucked up for folk to decide that the best alternative they can imagine for themselves is blowing themselves up.

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