Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/terrorists-are-putting-suicide.html
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In the colonel’s assessment, the attack signalled that ISIL, whose ranks were sharply reduced by the group’s four-year fight against Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. special forces, was resorting to unconventional methods since they lacked manpower.
In a way this is good news, in that it shows that there’s a limit to the supply of testosterone- and religion-crazed young male idiots willing to martyr themselves for fundie movements.
Those poor cows, though.
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“Get it bro? We’ll put them on COWS. Then they’ll be MOOJAHIDEEN!”
“Do it! DO IT!”
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1k for a cow?
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In addition to the fact that an animal can’t choose to become a living weapon as it lack free will
Seems to me that their free will is the problem. Cows are not going to prance into a busy city center, because there’s no grass there to eat. So they just slowly, agonizingly wander around until the bombers get impatient and detonate them, doing “some damage” to buildings nearby.
This is not going to last long, because it’s a terrible plan with poor results for the amount of efforts it takes.
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“and there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut”
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Technically it’s only a “suicide” vest if the cows are carrying out the attacks voluntarily.
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In the darkest days after Pearl Harbor, bats stepped up . . .
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Also this vaguely reminds me of this book (very good, recommended by Sir Terry Pratchett himself) Apocalypse Cow
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Well, I mean, there is a lot of historical examples of cows being used as weapons.
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Someone’s been watching Three Kings
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What a stupid concept.
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Their milkshake kills all the boys in the yard?
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That’s abominable.
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Fetchez la vache!
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Or the poor people who lose their livelihood because someone used their cow in a terrorist attack, too.
And I can’t imagine that the hindu nationalists aren’t going to use this (even though it’s in Iraq) as an excuse to crack down harder on Muslim Indians.
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