What is the bravest act in history?

If u look at it from the terrorists eyes ..... yes it is a heroic act... but it is NOT a military act. They were NOT Iraqi soldiers  attacking American soldiers in America...They were a terrorist group , sacrificing their lives NOT against enemy soldiers , but against innocent humans . So this makes a lot of difference. They didnt protect their country , they protected their religious fanatism...Take the Japanese .... Their act was heroic , altough it was against the free world and supporting a fascist regime.... I dont examine the politics.... I examine the act itself...Kamikaze's act was pure military .... The terroristic act on the twins , was not . It was a political act...

Isk..

Yes They were brave.

Infact They are not attacking civilians, They are attacking financial power of USA.

Or this is what they think

 well General Custer's final battle was quite brave...lol

Poet Nesimi and Hallac-i Mansur

As a result of their tasavvuf philosophy they said "I'm God (En'el Hakk)",  i. e. God and the whole universe(including humans) are unique by love and because of this "sin" one was skinned the other was crucified along with other tortures... (They were aware of their ends)

No.They ran away as soon as the news of turks  getting in came

The discussion has reached an important question.  Is the act of a suicide bomber a "heroic act?"  I don't think there is any question that it takes a lot of "guts".  It takes bravery, but is it "heroic" to take your life murdering other and helpless civilians? 

There is no question that Fundamentalist Islam is the underdog and has had to seek other ways of defending its identity, but even so, it is a new low in the history of warefare for our and Islamic civilization.  We are all aware of a time in our history when armies marched against each other.  Now we fly over them and gleefully rain death and destruction on them.  We fire missiles at them from beyond the horizon or from under the ocean.  We assasinate important people, float counterfit money, use depleated uranium and stock atomic bombs.  Yet, the deliberate killing of civilians in restaurants and busses is a new low.

The important thing about it is that it works.  It is a successful strategy.  It caused Spain and the Philappines to take their troops out of Iraq.  It aggrivated us into invading Islam and, hence, drive more young Muslim men into terrorism.  It works.  They attack us and we attack them so that we increase their numbers.  It is called "a retaliatory partnership" and we learned it from israel.  It will succeed in getting Bush re-elected because Iran is next.

charles

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I am with Belisarius on this one. Let's not turn this into another Byzantine dominated post, but I honestly can't help but admire 1453. Had the Byzantines fought with such courage in the previous few centuries they no doubt would have continued as a viable nation.

Thinking of the personal example of Constantine Palaeologos is truly an inspiration to deeds of bravery, he was a most virtuous man.

Oh, also most sources I find put the population of Constantinople at the time at just 30,000 people, only a little around 5,000 of them men of fighting age.

Also Constantine Palaeologos stayed and fought even when the walls came down, despite the fact he could have escaped. A number of his senior officers remained with him.

Again, start another post about this topic if you like, let's not get sidetracked.