I've always found enormous irony in many Americans who call people like Hamas and Al queda "cowards".
Anybody willing to give thier life without hesitation for what they're fighting for and what they believe in is not a coward. They may we'll be justifiably called alot of things. But "cowards" is not one of them.
On the flip side, how many "brave" american citizens are willing to die for what they believe? And how many sit back, cringing under the blankets of comfort and excess, and only poking thier noses out just long enough to make an impotent fuckin threat before ducking thier heads and falling in line?
"Cowards"?
Indeed. When observed objectively these same "brave" souls wouldn't give up a moderate measure of their own comfort for what they believe. Much less thier very lives.
I'd extend some basic logic to those "brave" souls accusing others like Hamas of cowardice : history shows that Hamas can win. Because they'll fight for what they believe until they do.
History shows, those "brave" souls I'm speaking of, cannot ever win. Because, victory and/or defeat are a temporary state of affairs, to be renegotiated anytime conditions allow. But it requires the willingness to sacrifice in order to test your chances at any given time.
Cowardice is a permanent state of affairs, corraled by impotence and neverending perpetual defeat. Only an inch at a time and one small humiliation at a time. Constantly suffering small defeat but never with any chance of victory.
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