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A senior RAF officer asked fighter pilots whether they would consider suicide missions as a last resort to stop terrorists if their weapons had failed or they had run out of ammunition.

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justinsjustice
April 3, 2007, 10:20 p.m.
So know we are talking about doing suicide missions? This is just too much.
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miklkit
April 4, 2007, 1:57 p.m.
Suicide is illegal. In WW2 some German pilots would deliberately ram American bombers. But they would have the canopy off and be kneeling on the seat on approach so they could jump out at the last second. Suicide is stupid.
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spellbreak
April 4, 2007, 2:50 p.m.
Sacrificing oneself for ones country or cause is traditional and one of the greatly respected and honored practices in Western history. It was practiced by the Picts and the tribes of England as well as by the Arabs.
It was not promoted by Mohammad. The contrary, in fact.
The U.S. honors the memory of those who have shown such great bravery and dedication. We have statues, books, and movies about them.
YEt, when we talk about others we seem to find those same traditions and practices to be beyond understanding.
In propaganda it is a way to set the people who have what we want aside as being "Not like us; they are different, you know." The alleged difference sets the stage and justification for discrimination, oppression and persecution.
I oppose suicide missions unless absolutely unavoidable. I oppose the suicide murders of innocents. I also oppose the mass slaughter of innocents by means of high tech weapons controlled from clean, secure places at great distance.
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joeblowe
April 4, 2007, 3:15 p.m.
I'm not sure it's suicide if you are ORDERED to do it. If that were true, every person who had every been ordered into combat and been killed has committed suicide. This was, as the article explained, just a thought exercise -- to get the recruits to THINK about what could POSSIBLY happen.
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Darkstar
April 4, 2007, 3:58 p.m.
The suggested scenario is next to impossible. It is doubtful that a single plane would be dispatched to intercept a possible terrorist threat. The likelihood that multiple aircraft would either all run out of ammunition or suffer mechanical failure and be forced to abort a mission is all that more unlikely. Somehow, I don't believe we're getting the whole story here.
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PsychoHosebeast
April 4, 2007, 4:59 p.m.
Perhaps they're going to take everyone who says yes, and discharge them because they're too friggin nuts to be an officer in the RAF.
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Daylight
April 4, 2007, 10:07 p.m.
I think now everybody is convinced that the suicide mission as a last resort is acceptable, even people who commit suicide are the people who run out of no means of survival. committing suicide is 'HARAM' forbidden in Islam, but fighting with superior enemy is difficult without suicide missions. In fact JWB is on a suicide mission in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and he is taking America with him.