"THIS WAS BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN THERE WAS HONOR IN BEING A WARRIOR...THEY PROUDLY WORE UNIFORMS, AND THEY DIDN'T HIDE IN AMBUSH INSIDE A MOSQUE, OR BEHIND WOMEN AND CHILDREN, NOR DID THEY USE MENTALLY RETARDED WOMEN AS SUICIDE BOMBERS TO TARGET AND KILL INNOCENT CIVILIANS...HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED......"
Things are not as simple or one sided as the above statement pretends. Honor is something individuals have, not 'days' or cultures or one era vs another. And warrior is a useless term when not qualified. All combatants are warriors, drug gangs are warriors, etc. If there is honor in being a warrior it seemingly would be restricted to defending your family or country from being attacked. In modern times the word warrior is less and less meaningful. Is someone who pushes a button to send off a smart bomb to destroy suspected enemies and anyone else in the vicinity really a warrior? Is there honor in this? Maybe some sort of utilitarian necessity but honor? If one side has 'smart bombs', missiles, armored tanks, etc. and the other side has only homemade or crude roadside bombs this alone hardly identifies where any honor is. In both cases innocent people get killed. It was much simpler when wars involved uniformed armies, and citizens in both countries all had to sacrifice to sustain war. People who are willing to give up their lives for this or that cause can not be dismissed as mentally retarded. Wars today are less about territorial gain or politics but acts of desperation by mostly very angry and desperate groups. I am not aware of any desperate groups in history who did not have some legitimate basis for all their anger and desperate acts.
Forget using honor to describe the actions of one side and put down the actions of the other side. The Earth today suffers a massive population explosion which is putting enormous stresses on all the natural resources needed to sustain the kind of lifestyle to which many of us are accustomed. Muslim countries are not putting military bases in nonMuslim countries or putting military bases in nonMuslim countries to prop up desired governments. And of course they don't do this because they can't and we can. There is no honor involved here---just he who can does, he who cannot, doesn't. Perhaps honor should be involved for those who follow the Golden Rule---do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
