Why war doesn't make us safer
More evidence that a military strategy is a very difficult and unlikely way to make us safer in the war on terror, from
the
NYT article by Scott Shane about so-called global terrorism:
In fact, the vast majority of terrorists are provincial in their goals, said Robert A. Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago. His analysis of suicide attacks from 1980 to 2004 for his book, ''Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism'' found that 95 percent of attacks worldwide were motivated by resentment of the presence of foreign combat troops.