The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
The perceived randomness of suicide bombings is in large part responsible for the emotional suffering that they inflict on society. But the planners of these attacks use a strategy that is anything but random: they aim to relentlessly shrink to nothing the areas in which people can move freely.
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Originally published in: The Atlantic Monthly, v. 291, no. 5, June 2003, pp. 1-10.
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