Five Points: The Difference Between Rational Warfare and Jihad

Various

[Maedhros]

I.
Jihad:
"Israel has nuclear bombs, we have human bombs."
- Sign in Al-Najah University
Reason:
"The best strategy is always to be very strong: first in general and then at the decisive point. There is no higher and simpler law of strategy than that of keeping one's forces concentrated."
- Karl von Clausewitz

II.
Jihad:
"The children of the kindergarten are the holy martyrs of tomorrow."
- Sign in Hamas-run schools
Reason:
"A generation that was destroyed by war, even though it might have escaped its shells."
- Erich Maria Remarque

III.
Jihad:
"I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists, the sons of pigs and monkeys. I will tear their bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know."
- Ahmed, an eleven year old Palestinian
Reason:
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
- Gen. Robert E. Lee

IV.
Jihad:
"I described to him how God would compensate the martyr for sacrificing his life for his land. If you become a martyr, God will give you 70 virgins, 70 wives and everlasting happiness."
- Muhammad Abu Wardeh, Hamas recruiter
Reason:
"There's many who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it's all hell."
- Gen. William T. Sherman

V.
Jihad:
"Oh, Muslims, attack and you will gain one of two blessings: either victory or martyrdom. The Muslim loves death and martyrdom."
- Ikrama Sabri, Mufti of Jerusalem
Reason:
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- Gen. George S. Patton

[Maedhros]

Just my two cents.

[Lazamataz]

I would like to see the elements of Jihadism put up against Sun Tsu's "Art of War".

[NovemberCharlie]

Jihad: "The children of the kindergarten are the holy martyrs of tomorrow."

I have a better idea for a reply to this one:
"I am a soldier, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet."
- A Founding Father (Madison, maybe?)

[SpottedBeaver]

"I am a soldier, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet."

After a quick google search, it comes up as George Washington who said that.

[gcruse]

"The object of war is not to die for your country
but to make the other bastard die for his."
- Gen. George S. Patton

The Colin Powell Corollary:

The paradigm of war is not to die for
your country, or to make your enemy
die for his.  It is to get someone else
to die for your country.

[Ancesthntr]

Good rendition of the primary reason why the Arabs get their arses kicked all over the place every time they encounter a Western army, namely that they are as dumb as rocks.

Jihad:

"I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists, the sons of pigs and monkeys. I will tear their bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know."

Gee, maybe the Israelis can convince PETA to protest this incitement of cruelty to animals. Nah, then it would require the PETA imbeciles to take a consistent position.

[elfman2]

not bad...

[Alouette]

"There's many who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it's all hell." - Gen. William T. Sherman

I like this Sherman quote better:

"War is cruelty and you cannot refine it; the more terrible it is, the sooner it will be over."