Al-Zarqawi pulled a little boo-boo I think. Blowing up people in Amman? You shouldn't mess with the Jordanians. Nope. Also dead were some prominent Palestinians. You really don't want to mess with the Palestinians. And three 'Chinese delegates of the Peoples Liberation Army'. Chinese military. Hope it's merely a cosmic coincidence that they were in the same hotel as the Palestinian 'security personnel'. You really, really don't want to mess with the Chinese...

Believe it was on CNN - an interview with a potential suicide bomber. What I found of interest wasn't that he looked just like any other teenage kid, but that he really, truly believes that his destiny includes the infamous seventy-five virgins. Due to the media that have defined his world, saving oneself for a date with the seventy-five virgins is the crowning achievement of life.

So it seems that the fundamental difference between radical Islam and other religious extremisms is that they are taught to believe in sex after death. Lots of it. Suppose this is to provide a modicum of hope in a culture of arranged weddings with the daughter of the richest person your dad knows personally. What does Christianity say about sex after death? Don't recall that the topic ever came up. Hate to say it, but their heaven looks better than ours...

And this afterlife orgy still takes place if your body is like totally vaporized. In fact, you get more sex if you're vaporized than if you aren't. They've totally got this marketing thing down... Psssstt... kid - yeah you. Feelin' a bit randy? Of course you are... Wife not putting out for you? I see... She's what - 17-18 years old? Wanna' get laid? Tonight? Here, strap on this vest. Don't worry, I'll take care of your widow - I mean wife.

That's the other interesting thing about this social system. You can get killed for casting a wayward glance at another man's wife. But widows (having fulfilled the 'death do us part' clause) are fair game. Having sex with the widow of a martyr is encouraged - as some of her blessed-ness is presumed to rub off. All of this is a very long winded explanation of the dynamics that we are up against fighting these so-called terrorists. We are up against a culture where there are only two sanctioned methods of gratifying wanton lust. 1.) die for Allah, or 2.) recruit people to die for Allah.