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To: Sam who wrote (28377)	9/9/2006 12:07:27 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543319

Thanks for this one, Sam. You just keep sending it along don't you. As for the interview with Pape, the points he makes make sense. That the, by far most important, motivating factor in suicide bombing in his data is trying to get occupying forces out. Rather than "hatred of the West", etc. Just for my own purposes I checked on the magazine in which the interview was published and on Pape to see if their bona fides checked out. The magazine, The Conservative, is Pat Buchanan's shop. Doesn't make the Pape argument wrong. In fact, it makes sense to me. But it does help to know from which quarters the information comes. As for Pape, Google says he is the genuine article, a political science professor at Chicago. I don't know anything about his reputation. He could be as kooky as Mansfield at Harvard or as sane as Dahl at Yale was always perceived to be (both are/were political science professors). Here's the google stuff on Pape: Robert A. Pape is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs. His publications include Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Random House 2005); Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Cornell 1996), "Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work," International Security (1997), "The Determinants of International Moral Action," International Organization (1999); "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," American Political Science Review (2003); and "Soft Balancing against the United States," International Security (2005). His commentary on international security policy has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, as well as on Nightline, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and National Public Radio. Before coming to Chicago in 1999, he taught international relations at Dartmouth College for five years and air power strategy for the USAF's School of Advanced Airpower Studies for three years. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 1988 and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. His current work focuses on the causes of suicide terrorism and the politics of unipolarity.