Re: Suicide bombing a reaction to occupation
- From: "Chairman Mao says:" <Mao-ze-Dong@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:16:29 -0400
Yes KKKKARL,
Liberalism at its best
Retards Be You.
"Karl" <karlpet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What makes someone desperate enough to blow themselves up? A
> comprehensive study shows it is the pain, loss and humiliation of
> occupation by a foreign power.
>
> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1121723410866&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795
>
> Bush barking up wrong tree on terror
>
>
> Who carried out the London massacre, we do not know. But, as to why
> they did it, Americans are already quarrelling.
>
> President George Bush says the terrorists are attacking our
> civilization. At Fort Bragg, N.C., he explained again why we are
> fighting in Iraq, two years after we overthrew Saddam Hussein. "Iraq is
> the latest battlefield in this war," he said, in "a global war on
> terror.
>
> "Many terrorists who kill ... on the streets of Baghdad are followers
> of the same murderous ideology that took the lives of citizens in New
> York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. There is only one course of action
> against them: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home."
>
> We fight the terrorists over there so we do not have to fight them over
> here. But is this true?
>
> Few Americans have given more thought to the motivation of suicide
> bombers than Robert Pape, author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic
> of Suicide Terrorism. His book is drawn from a database on every
> suicide-bomb attack from 1980 to early 2004. Conclusion: The claim that
> 9/11 and the suicide bombings in Iraq are done to advance some jihad by
> "Islamofascists" against the West is not only unsubstantiated, it is
> hollow.
>
> "Islamic fundamentalism is not as closely associated with suicide
> terrorism as many people think," Pape tells The American Conservative
> in its July 18 issue. Indeed, the world's leader in suicide terror was
> the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. This secular Marxist group "invented the
> famous suicide vest for their suicide assassination of Rajiv Ghandi in
> May 1991. The Palestinians got the idea of the vest from the Tamil
> Tigers."
>
> But if the aim of suicide bombers is not to advance Islamism in a war
> of civilizations, what is its purpose? Pape's conclusion:
> "(S)uicide-terrorist attacks are not so much driven by religion as by a
> clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw
> military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their
> homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West
> Bank, every major suicide terrorist campaign has had as its central
> objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw."
>
> The 9/11 terrorists were over here because we were over there. They are
> not trying to convert us. They are killing us to drive us out of their
> countries.
>
> Before the U.S. invasion, says Pape, "Iraq never had a suicide attack
> in its history. Since our invasion, suicide terrorism has been
> escalating rapidly, with 20 attacks in 2003, 48 in 2004 and (more than)
> 50 in just the first five months of 2005. Every year since the U.S.
> invasion, suicide terrorism has doubled ... Far from making us safer
> against terrorism, the operation in Iraq has stimulated suicide
> terrorists and has given suicide terrorism a new lease on life."
>
> Pape is saying that Bush has got it backward: The Iraq war is not
> eradicating terrorism, it is creating terrorists.
>
> The good news? "The history of the last 20 years" shows that once the
> troops of the occupying democracies "withdraw from the homeland of the
> terrorists, they often stop - and stop on a dime."
>
> Between 1982 and 1986, there were 41 suicide-bomb attacks on U.S.,
> French, and Israeli targets in Lebanon. When U.S. and French troops
> withdrew and Israel pulled back to a six-mile buffer zone, suicide
> bombings virtually ceased.
>
> "Since suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation and
> not Islamic fundamentalism," says Pape, "the use of heavy military
> force to transform Muslim societies ... is only likely to increase the
> number of suicide terrorists coming at us."
>
> What Pape is saying is that the neo-cons' "World War IV" - our
> invading Islamic countries to overthrow regimes and convert them into
> democracies - is suicidal, like stomping on an anthill so as not to
> be bitten by ants. It is the presence of U.S. troops in Islamic lands
> that is the progenitor of suicide terrorism.
>
> Bush's cure for terrorism is a cause of the epidemic. The doctor is
> spreading the disease.
>
> The longer we stay in Iraq, the greater the number of suicide attacks
> we can expect. The sooner we get our troops out, the sooner terrorism
> over there and over here will end. So, Pape says, the data prove.
>
> This is the precise opposite of what Bush argues and believes.
>
.
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