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A Time article on a "terror facilitator" reveals some unintended similarities between the insurgency and Western ideals:

He says foreign fighters "come a long way from their countries, spending a lot of money and with high hopes. They don't want to gradually earn their entry to paradise by participating in operations against the Americans. They want martyrdom immediately."

"We have to realize that the fight against the Americans might last a long, long time." So long as men like him continue to send their young to die, that prediction may well come true.

So they encourage their young to spend money on instant gratification and then send them off to die. How bloody original...