You should take a look at a challenging and controversial book about suicide bombers: Robert Pape's Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Bombers. You can get more information about Pape's book (as well as others on terrorism) from The New York Review of Books. Pape analyzes all suicide boimbings from 1980-2003 and concludes that most of them are inspired by nationalist rather than religious motives and are parts of campaigns of national liberation directed against democracies that are occupiers. Among other implications, this indicates that we should withdraw from Iraq. For an example of how defenders of the US invasion of Iraq views Papes arguments, see this article from the conservative magazine Commentary.
I'll be talking more about Pape's arguments this weekend when I have a chance to finish his book.
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