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Article: Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror.(Book review)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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DYING TO KILL: The Allure of Suicide Terror, Mia Bloom, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007, 280 pages, $17.95. In Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror, Mia Bloom lays out a theory of suicide bombing as a modern, non-Islamic phenomenon used by groups "when other military tactics fail, and when they are in competition with other terrorist groups for popular or financial support."
Bloom is sure of a few things. Military overreaction is bad if we want to stop terrorists or suicide bombers. Also, suicide bombing should not be associated with Islam. Other than these hackneyed insights, Bloom never articulates an argument on how to address the phenomenon. ...