Last Straw

“The cent­ral fact is that over­whelm­ingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by reli­gion as much as they are 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 — over 95 per­cent of all the incid­ents — has had as its cent­ral object­ive to com­pel a demo­cratic state to withdraw.”