Reddit reviews Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It (Chicago Series on International and Dome)

I haven't read too many books about the subject, but one that I really like is 'Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001', by Steve Coll. It's incredibly illuminating and a fascinating read.

Robert Pape's 'Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It' is also one of my favorites.

I haven't heard much from Dr. Pape since youtube videos of several of his presentations starting proliferating around 2010. I've been wanting to hear, 5 years later, if the conclusions from his - books regarding the motivations of suicide terrorists still hold true with ISIS as they did al Qaeda years earlier.

I am also curious about his views on Libya now. He was interviewed weeks after the multi-national intervention in Libya had begun and he listed it as an example, a precedent, of "healthy" intervention. There's a comment on that video that asks several important questions:

> So my question(s) for Dr. Pape -

• Do you still see the Libyan intervention as a successful "healthy" intervention precedent or do you wish to recant or change your view of the interventions in Libya expressed in this video?
  

• And if not "healthy", then do you, in retrospect, believe that the intervention itself was ill-advised?
  
• Or do you simply believe that certain (unforeseeable) events occurred after the intervention that led to the current mess?
  
  

• And if [it was unforeseeable events], what events and how would you have tried to avoid them?
  
  

you seem to be blaming islam for suicide vests, when in fact the united states foreign policy is far more responsible.

http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Fuse-Explosion-Suicide-Terrorism/dp/0226645657#customerReviews

you'd do well to read this book.

the us taxpayer has funded more terrorists, and is responsible for more deaths than islam ever has and you've disregarded all evidence of that as "playing the blame game". as such you are not a rational person and therefore there's no point in continuing to talk to you.

all the best.

ps. if you want to find out more about how your drones actually operate you should also look up "double tap drone strikes" because despite the sense I get that you think most muslims deserve to be killed for their religion(you rationalise the killing of innocent muslims by drones saying they are in a war zone, who declared war?)... i think you appreciate that drones are killing innocent people - and what that means morally.