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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (117888)10/28/2003 7:33:49 AM
From: frankw1900  Respond to of 281500
 
Noel, about a month ago some of us discussed it.

Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Oct 28, 2003 6:56 AM
I don't know if this article was posted here earlier. I read a translation of the complete article yesterday.

"September 22, 2003

Dying to Kill Us
By ROBERT A. PAPE
CHICAGO ? Suicide terrorism has been on the rise around the world for two decades ............ 1023 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Sep 29, 2003 10:50 AM
Since we were talking about suicide terrorists:

Suicide, the ultimate terror tactic
By David Isenberg

A rising phenomenon of the past two decades has been suicide terrorism. But despite all the news about it, from places such as Chechnya, Leban ............ 6968 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Sep 24, 2003 2:27 AM
You may think this "is overly simplistic": The aim of the administrators of suicide terrorism is not territory in itself but space for their ideological flowering. The outcome for the Islamists is something like Iran, and for the LTTE, something like Cub ............ 1445 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Sep 23, 2003 8:27 PM
"The aim of the administrators of suicide terrorism is not territory in itself but space for their ideological flowering. The outcome for the Islamists is something like Iran, and for the LTTE, something like Cuba."

I think that is overly simplistic. ............ 587 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Sep 23, 2003 8:08 PM
Re: Dying to Kill

Nadine's crtiicism of Pape's article is well taken. When I posted his original work here -

danieldrezner.com

- I expected there might be a fair bit of criticism.

She is correct in noting his l ............ 3319 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Sep 23, 2003 2:00 PM
Pape puts his conclusion in his premise:

Rather, what nearly all suicide terrorist campaigns have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel liberal democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consi ............ 1509 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Sep 23, 2003 12:10 PM
re:suicide attacks

A good article, imo.

Dying to kill: The strategic logic of suicide bombers
iht.com

Robert A. Pape
NYT
Tuesday, September 23, 2003

CHICAGO Suicide terrorism has been on the rise around ............ 7425 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Sep 19, 2003 1:28 PM
you need desperation together with indoctrination, and if the indocrtination is strong enough, you don't even need the desperation> I agree with that. But with such desperation as we see now, the cycle of violence is easy to sustain. You cannot say wh ............ 2645 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Sep 18, 2003 9:06 PM
How to defeat suicide terrorism.
September 16, 2003, 9:40 a.m.
nationalreview.com

By Adam Wolfson
The religious orientation of the Islamists?breaks down deterrence. How do you deter someone who is willin ............ 5529 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Mar 23, 2003 4:00 PM
An important quick take, IMO, on the dynamics of world alliances by Daniel Drezner -

drezner.blogspot.com

SOME POLITICAL SCIENCE CORRECTIONS: Max Boot's essay on U.S. foreign policy in the Washington ............ 4426 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Dec 8, 2002 2:05 PM
WAR WITH IRAQ IS NOT IN AMERICA'S NATIONAL INTEREST

bear-left.com

Here is an HTML version of an advertisement from the op-ed page of the New York Times of 26 September 2002, signed by 33 scholars of internation ............ 3609 characters
Subject: Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
Posted On: Aug 29, 2002 8:18 PM
Hi all; Some interesting articles from the latest Parameters:

War and the Iraq Dilemma: Facing Harsh Realities
Richard L. Russell, Parameters, Autumn 2002
carlisle-www.army.mil

Can We ............ 589 characters