“Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.” SocialGoalCommunityReligiousSupportGroupsOrganizationSuicideTerroristCommandLiberationOccupationBroadsIsolatedCultRecruitTerrorist GroupsReligious CultsNational Community Author:Robert Pape
“The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.” WarGoalCommunityTerrorTerroristTraditionalTargetTerritorialEnlargement Author:John Ashcroft
“A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.” IfsGoalImpossibleBattleTerrorismDefenseTechniqueTerroristRangeLocation Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.” MayWholeProblemHandsFightingSocialGoalReligiousFashionColdSolutionsStructureTerrorismComplainingTerroristDestroyedRemedyGrievanceSocial SystemsCold BloodedDemolition Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.” PeopleFeelsShouldBelieveI BelieveGoalTerroristSecureThreatenedFree Society Author:Ron Paul