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Warfare is not based on biological impulses. Human beings are not chimpanzees.
The purpose of political violence is to inflict death upon human beings who embrace an ideology that negates one's own ideology. Political killing seeks destruction of an alternative belief system.
Lenin was a Twentieth Century pioneer: killing millions of "capitalists" to prove the truth of "communism." Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot you know the rest of the story. Death as a criterion of truth. Validation through death.
Islamic terrorism the same. Killing to convert. Bin Laden's metaphysics: dead bodies in the rubble of the World Trade Center prove the reality of Allah. Were you converted?
Richard Koenigsberg
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