Why would the insurgents in Iraq hold out any hope that war by suicide bomb can win them anything? Yes, because it has worked before.

The history of suicide bombing is filled with success stories. "Over the past 20 years, there have been 13 suicide terrorist campaigns that have started and finished," says Robert Pape in a forthcoming book on suicide bombers, "Dying to Win." "Surprisingly, seven of those 13 campaigns have produced concessions for the terrorist's political cause — more than what many people realize."

A Suicide bomber announcing his intent of mass murder, before the heinous act

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In one such campaigns in 1983, the United States had forces in Lebanon as peacekeepers. And then, on a single day, 241 Marines were killed by a suicide bomber driving a truck. Those who sent him got exactly what they wanted.

"Ronald Reagan, no pacifist … withdrew all our military forces from Lebanon and virtually abandoned the country," Pape said. "Doing that sent a clear message to terrorists, suicide terrorism pays."

It's not just the United States' actions in Lebanon. Israel also made concessions at various times under pressure of suicide attacks by Lebanese and Palestinians.

In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers, has used suicide tactics regularly since the 1980s, has brought its opponents to the negotiating table. The success of the Tamil Tigers has led the Islamofascist moonbats to believe that they could bring America to a negotiating table with similar tactics.

Success only half the time may not sound like much, but the fact that terrorist groups so weak in a conventional military sense, have any success at all may attest to the strange potency of a weapon that is comprised mostly of a person willing to kill himself for a cause.

"It makes us feel that our enemies are so committed to their cause that they're willing to do this seemingly irrational thing," said Jessica Stern, a lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the author of "Terror in the Name of God."

"They are willing to lose their lives because they feel so strongly that they are right and we are wrong."

There is a formula the suicide bomber counts on: The right explosives are powerful, portable and concealable in a car or on a bomber's body. The right targets are civilians — the more, the better, and preferably unsuspecting until the bomb goes off. Finally, the right reaction is shock, horror, and terror. That's what the killer wants to plant in the hearts of his enemies so he can break that enemy's will.

So, there is a method to what looks like the madness in Iraq. The only positive side is that both the killers and those being killed in Iraq (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Indonesia) belong to the same outlook that glorifies death. This exposes the vile creed, without causing deaths among anyone who does not subscribe to it.

9/11 was a suicide bombing on a Grand Dramatic scale, but the trend was started by the Islamofascists in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The Islamofascists have forgotten that the real American psyche is that of a cowboy who would hunt down his enemies when aroused.

Today America’s position is like those settlers in the Wild West defending their settlements and stockades, the Islamofascist Moonbats are like those attacking the stockades and the American marines are like the Sheriffs and cowboys who ultimately decimated the attackers and made settlements safe in the Wild West. Today we deal with the Wild Middle East instead of the Wild West, and the attackers have changed as have their weapons and tactics (like homicide bombing), but the defenders are same - we Americans. We only have to be aroused sufficiently to carry this war to a successful conclusion, to hunt the enemy down and make America and the World safe.

Story Credits: ABC News

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