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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (12674)12/4/2001 12:05:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I think that the suicidal types will prevail.

I think so too. Which means that compromise is not an option. Their cause must be defeated, and not only defeated but disgraced as well.

seems to be an increase in the cachet associated with martyrdom in the Middle East and South Asia in the last two or three years

Yes, and not by accident -- this ties into the Islamicist belief system, well funded and exported by Saudi money.

The reasons for this lack of objective quantification of their military and political disadvantages would make a fascinating study

Have you read Fouad Ajami's The Dream Palace of the Arabs?
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