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Article: The mind of a terrorist: how terrorists see strategy and morality.(Column)
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- World Affairs
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- March 22, 2005
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The purpose of this talk is to give the audience an overview of how terrorists see the world, both strategically and morally. Now, I have given this talk over one hundred times since the tragic event of September 11, 2001, so at outset let me respond to a criticism I sometimes get concerning this talk. Specifically, because I attempt to explain how terrorists see the world, some listeners have felt that in some way I am justifying terroristic violence. I am not doing so; quite correctly, all of the world's great religions--Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, etc.--strongly condemn violence against the innocent. That violence against the innocent is immoral should be ...