The awful truth is that terrorism works

March 15, 2015 00:07

ISIS's serial beheadings and recent enkindling of a Jordanian air force pilot have generated worldwide horror.

But heinous and repugnant as these acts indisputably are, its important to recognize that terrorism is more calculated and choreographed than these mindless acts of barbarity suggest.

Rather, these and other less egregious deeds are the products of strategic choices consciously made by terrorists to further their aims in order to attract attention to themselves and their causes.

Why terrorists persist in believing that the horror and havoc they create will eventually prove beneficial lies at the heart of understanding what drives them to inflict deliberately shocking, wanton violence on their opponents.

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