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WAR IS A MEANS TO ACHIEVE POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS AIMS, WHEN IT FAILS IS SUICIDE BOMBING THE ONLY VIABLE OPTION LEFT TO ACHIEVE THESE AIMS?
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Suicide bombing is the crack cocaine of warfare. It does not just inflict death and terror on its victims, it intoxicates the people who sponsor it. It unleashes the deepest and most addictive human passions__the thirst for revenge, the desire for religious purity, the longing for earthly glory and eternal salvation. Suicide bombing is not just a tactic in a larger war: it overwhelms the political goals it is meant to serve. It creates its own logic and transforms the culture of those who employ it. Who is not familiar with the term Suicide Bombing, a bomb attack on people or property, delivered by a person who knows the explosion will cause his own death. The Arab press generally refers to a suicide bomber as a “Human Bomb”. The Bush administration briefly tried to get journalists to use the term “Homicide Bombing” but it did not gain currency. Suicide bombing usually but not always targets poorly-guarded nonmilitary facilities and personnel. It can be a military tactic, a political one or a mixture of the two. It may qualify as terrorism where the intention is to kill, main or terrorise a predominantly civilian target population, or fall within the definition of an act of war where it is committed against a military target under war conditions. As a political tactic, suicide bombings send a message of impassioned opposition to enemy forces i.e, that the bomber is willing to die for his cause and a message of desperate recklessness to third parties i.e, that the bomber feels the justice of the cause so strongly that he would rather die than submit and that he is giving little thought to the danger. When used against civilian targets, suicide bombing often causes fear in the target population greater than that caused by other forms of terrorism, as the fact that the bomber intends to die makes deterrence almost impossible. The policy of asymmetric warfare views suicide bombing on terms of imbalance of power. Groups with little significant power resort to suicide bombing as a response to actions or policies of a group with great power. Suicide bombing is overwhelmingly used by guerrilla, unlawful enemy combatants and other irregular fighting forces. Among many such groups there are religious overtones: bombers and their supporters may believe that their sacrifice will be rewarded in a afterlife. Suicide bombers often believe , correctly or incorrectly, that their actions are in accordance with moral or social standards because they are aimed at fighting unjust acts. Self sacrifice has always been a concept of war.The act of deliberately destroying oneself to inflict harm on an enemy is more restricted to modern times and the era of explosives.
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