Theories should be fruitful. They should generate new hypotheses and give us new insights into existing phenomena. Pape’s theory of suicide bombing – that suicide terror is an attempt to compel the end of an alien occupation by a democratic power – involves some subsidiary claims borne out by his database. First that most suicide [...]
I don’t know much about what’s going on in Bangladesh and I don’t think that makes me much different from other Americans. But one thing that jumps out is that the other day’s bombings are consistent with Robert Pape’s theory of suicide terror – by not being a campaign of suicide terror.
Pape’s thesis, not [...]
Think of it as “Little Green Horseshoes” or something.
Via The Poor Man Cafe.
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