Re: Giving up "Rights" for safety?
MV,
I was reading the research of a Professor who has studied every suicide bombing worldwide in recent history. His research is subtly different. He knows of no circumstance where suicide bombs were used against totalitarian regimes. Suicide bombing has almost always been used against democratic countries, (with Russia being an "emerging democracy"). He explains this because the bombers believe that democracies are weak, and they are casualty averse. Thus the goal is to induce pain. Any pain, anywhere, to anyone. Then they attempt to assign the blame to the democracy. Massive death is a cold blooded strategic decision. Extreme suffering works against the Democracy, it is our Achiles heel.
Ruthlessness is also a potent negociating point in the endgame. Who wants to negociate with those with no morals? Unfortunately we know how regimes run by the ruthless eventually turn out.