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 bombersiht.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 INTERESTbear-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 2002carlisle-www.army.mil Can We ............ 589 characters