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But a long-range bomber would be more cost-effective than standoff bombers with cruise missiles, and, unlike shorter-range tactical bombers, its bases would be invulnerable to attack.
Suicide bombers, the prolonged state of tension, and the overall weakening of the hope for peace have slashed support for democratic government.
Its basic strategy has been to send troops, drones, or bombers to any place that would threaten America’s access to oil, harbors Islamic fundamentalists, or otherwise creates problems – say, piracy off the coast of Somalia – for US interests.
Fighter bombers and attack helicopters would be employed to intercept any counter-attacks against the flanks of the advancing columns, and to break up blocking forces.
As it stands, the US sells mainly defensive weapons systems to India, while Russia, for example, offers India offensive weapons, including strategic bombers, an aircraft carrier, and a lease on a nuclear submarine.
The US tried to have it both ways: though the Obama administration sent US bombers through the new ADIZ to demonstrate its refusal to recognize China’s move, it also told US commercial airliners to acknowledge the zone and report their flight plans to the Chinese authorities.
As a result, the United States and Europe often spend tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars to send troops or bombers to quell uprisings or target “failed states,” but do not send one-tenth or even one-hundredth of that amount to address the underlying crises of water scarcity and under-development.
The Chinese are steadily gaining influence in Africa, not with bombers, but with money.
Among other problems, the US relies heavily on drones and bombers, leading to a high civilian death toll, which is inflaming public attitudes against the US.
Those who argue that suicide bombers express understandable grudges have themselves sold out their freedom.
How Hamas behaves in government will reveal whether terrorists and suicide bombers are alike in their implacability.
But this attitude thwarts urgently needed insight into who the suicide bombers really are, what motivates them, and thus how they might be stopped.
In fact, there are basically two categories of suicide bombers.
Suicide bombers of this type, while difficult to hunt down and neutralize, can easily be identified and their criminality exposed, given their vicious and wanton disdain for ethical, moral, and religious norms.
But the second category of suicide bombers presents a far greater challenge, for it comprises organizations, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad that fight for avowedly nationalist goals.
The distinction between the two types of suicide bombers is not always stark.
This one-size-fits-all approach may be convenient, but the failure to differentiate among suicide bombers vastly oversimplifies the realities that define the fight against terrorism.
To the powerless, nationalist suicide bombers look like a great equalizer.
Suicide bombers who target innocent Israeli civilians – and sometimes legitimate military objectives – rightly or wrongly appear to counterbalance Israeli “strategic” strikes.
America's ill-advised foray into Iraq has further confounded the distinction between the two types of suicide bombers and created a nearly ideal breeding ground for a new generation of terrorists.
By regarding all suicide bombers as irrational fanatics, rather than drawing distinctions between millenarians and nationalists, the US and its allies have ceded crucial political ground to groups like Al Qaeda and JI that insist on the impossibility of negotiating with Islam’s “enemies.”
Confronting continued, albeit fraying sanctions, Qadaffi threw his weight behind the pragmatists, turning the Lockerbie bombers over to face trial, renouncing the terrorism that he had promoted, and expelling the foreign terrorists who made Libya their home.
It scoffs at assertions that Russia would cheat by multiplying warheads on bombers or new rail-based missile carriers, arguing that the Kremlin would want to avoid America’s compensatory response.
Will an international force hunt down suicide bombers?
What it can do is create a structure untainted by terrorism, suicide bombers and competing militias.
In the last 12 months, the country has suffered attacks by child suicide bombers and brutal massacres by Boko Haram.
“It remains a point that neither federal minister Ijazul Haq nor PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat were ever attacked by suicide bombers,” she said.
Suppose, however, that the 19 people correctly suspected of involvement in terrorism were able to return to Britain, and one carried out a terrorist attack similar to the London transport bombings, which killed 52 innocent people (the four bombers also died).
In the preaching of Islamists seeking recruits, he notes, are “descriptions of a paradise more similar to a bordello than the reward for pious individuals, fantasies of virgins for suicide bombers, morality police chasing down women showing too much skin, the puritanism of dictatorship, veils, and burqas.”
But, in the current climate, it is difficult to imagine that naming an additional Sunni minister would stop the wave of suicide bombers dispatched by Al Qaeda – a group not known to negotiate power-sharing deals.
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