[Ancesthntr]

The terrorists that haven't blown themselves up have shown they aren't exactly swimming at the top of the gene pool, but they can't be so stupid as to drop a biohazard next to their own neighborhood to get at a few Israeli settlers when homocide bombs already do so nicely.

1. Never underestimate the capacity for human stupidity.

2. Did anyone ever think that the people spreading this stuff around could be lied to? After all, the really vicious people are at the top of the Pallie terror groups, and no one know what they are capable of doing.

[cake_crumb]

"1. Never underestimate the capacity for human stupidity."

True. My personal saying is "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." However, I think that the ultimate suicide attack, i.e.: the potential destruction of your own people, just to kill off your enemies, is a little extreme. I don't see how even the most rabid terrorists could romanticize it for the popular consumption of the populace.

"2. Did anyone ever think that the people spreading this stuff around could be lied to? After all, the really vicious people are at the top of the Pallie terror groups, and no one know what they are capable of doing."

Sure they can be lied to. The press faithfully reports every lie they hear as "fact", usually from "unnamed sources". For a couple of decades, I've been under the impression that "journalists" don't even read the stuff they "report" to the public, or they would see that the patterns of behaviour of the terror groups they report on are not born out by the propaganda quoted in the media's own stories.