[Peace-discuss] Stopping terrorism

[C. G. Estabrook]

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, "Can the United States Save Itself in 
the Middle East?":

...Last month, the New America Foundation and the University of Chicago's 
Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) sponsored a conference in Washington, 
entitled "Cutting the Fuse: Moving beyond the War on Terror." The conference was 
sparked by the publication of a new book by CPOST's director, Robert Pape, and 
James Feldman, entitled /Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide 
Terrorism and How to Stop It /(University of Chicago Press, 2010). The book - as 
well as the conference it prompted - offers important if also politically 
inconvenient insights for U.S. policymakers seeking to revive America's 
declining strategic position in the Middle East. /Cutting the Fuse/ extends what 
is already a well-established body of work by Bob Pape assessing the root causes 
of suicide terrorism and drawing the implications of that analysis for U.S. 
policy in the Middle East. In his 2005 book, /Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic 
of Suicide Terrorism/, Bob analyzed a massive data base of suicide attacks 
perpetrated around the world between 1980 and 2003 to demonstrate that (in 
Pape's words) *"what nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a 
specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw 
military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their 
homeland"*...

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/leverett091110.html

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