Daily Lessons from Life 10 February 2011 - School Boy Suicide Bomber!!

"Thu, Feb 10, 2011 AFP - 'Schoolboy' bomber kills 27 Pakistan army recruits

MARDAN, Pakistan - A teenage suicide bomber killed up to 27 Pakistani army recruits at a parade ground on Thursday, an attack the Taliban said was revenge for US drone strikes and local military offensives.

Wearing school uniform, the boy blew himself up at the parade inside a heavily guarded military compound just outside the town of Mardan, killing the soldiers with shrapnel and explosives, officials said.

It was the deadliest suicide bombing in Pakistan since a woman with a bomb strapped under her burqa killed 43 people at a UN food distribution point on Christmas Day 2010 in the tribal district of Bajaur.

The Taliban claimed responsibility and threatened "bigger attacks" in coming days to avenge American drone strikes and Pakistani military operations targeting Islamist militants in the northwestern tribal belt."

Who is the enemy in this fight or war? Fellow countryman or boy!! The worst nightmare really.

Lessons for me are:

1. who is the boy? why did he do it? was it a typical 'suicide bomber' of the past like hurt, avenging a terrible death of parent(s) or someone dear, low IQ and easily manipulated, etc? I will never know. So much research and reports had been done on identification of a typical 'suicide bomber' and yet we cannot predict one!;

2. 'an eye for an eye until all go blind' seems to be the natural outcome of this fight or war. Ideological war has no element of rationality but a lot of emotion. The trouble is emotion is unpredictable and irrational. So, it is a war with no end until the emotional element is taken care of;

3. his manipulators are happy that they had 'scored'. Hopefully the boy's family has been taken care of and that he did get his 40 or 200 virgins in heaven for his sacrifice!!

My comments are confusing as I am confused about this persistent stream of ready suicide bombers! What really drive them? Or were they forced or drugged or programmed to go on this suicide mission?