Why is sending all of your armies in a last ditch and mostly futile - nay, symbolic - effort to win called "suiciding?" As America's sagacious president declared, for one thing, aren't they really "homicide bombers?" But seriously, I feel that this action is more reminiscent of the banzai, in which doomed Japanese soldiers would launch an attack on the enemy in lieu of surrender and in the hopes of dying the death of a soldier? Isn't this a more dramatic term than "suicide?" Think of when, with your back to the proverbial wall, you turn in that last pathetic red set and deploy on Indonesia and attack out into Asia to rescue the world from the tyranny of your opponents... is "suicide" really evocative of that? Or, would it be a much more strongly emotional pinning thought to believe that your soldiers are bravely dying... FOR THE EMPEROR!
this may be culturally insensitive, now that I think about it. Maybe that's why. But I find it a moving tribute to going down with your guns blazing, to not go quietly into that dark night, to die... with honor. I feel that "suicide" (negative connotation) dissuades one from suiciding, while the banzai is a powerfully strong connotation of the warrior code. I beseech you, think about it.
