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RON PAUL WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE ROOT CAUSE OF SUICIDE TERRORISM

source: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/10/ron-paul-was-right.html

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Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political science professor and former Air Force lecturer, will present findings on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that argue that the majority of suicide terrorism around the world since 1980 has had a common cause: military occupation.

Pape and his team of researchers draw on data produced by a six-year study of suicide terrorist attacks around the world that was partially funded by the Defense Department's Defense Threat Reduction Agency. They have compiled the terrorism statistics in a publicly available database comprising some 10,000 records on some 2,200 suicide terrorism attacks, dating back to the first suicide terrorism attack of modern times — the 1983 truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 241 U.S. Marines.

"We have lots of evidence now that when you put the foreign military presence in, it triggers suicide terrorism campaigns, ... and that when the foreign forces leave, it takes away almost 100 percent of the terrorist campaign," Pape said in an interview last week on his findings.

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2 comments // RON PAUL WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE ROOT CAUSE OF SUICIDE TERRORISM

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    • Was the root cause ever really in question? They hate the US because we are the most powerful nation on earth with long reaching impact on far away lands (with or without occupation).

      When people feel that their way of life is in danger, of course they are going to try and defend it by whatever means necissary. They know they'll be killed if they walk in with a gun and start unloading, so why not maximize the deathtoll and kill yourself at the same time (think Japanese Sepaku).

      The argument that Repubs/Dems are going to ask is whether withdrawl will prevent another 911 (which was a suicide bombing of sorts, but since it took place outside of the occupied land it probably doesn't fall into the same category). I don't know how you can argue that we are helping things with what we are currently doing, but fear makes people do irrational things.

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