Comments | polaris93: Rage-junkies and holy martyrdom

polaris93

Rage-junkies and holy martyrdom

Jun 21, 2002 01:04

Email I just sent to the editor of a great Internet daily:

Dear editor,
One of the things that strikes me about the terrorism we see all around us in the world now ( Read more... )

islamism, media, psychology, religions, anthropology, addictions, politics, jihad

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hey ... btripp June 21 2002, 07:36:34 UTC

Yael ...

Good to see you posting in L.J. again!

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jordan179 March 1 2008, 01:44:37 UTC

This would go a good way toward explaining why jihadists are such poor negotiators. As the Palestinian experience shows, they are terrible at exploiting the pressure they have created to make real gains. The reason, obviously, is that the addicts want to keep fighting, rather than to actually win.

Re: Addicts want to keep fighting polaris93 March 1 2008, 03:47:22 UTC

That sounds about right, actually. There's a syndrome there that is typical of junkies of all kinds. We should bring those who work with addicts all the time in the capacity of recovery specialists and psychologists into strategy sessions designed to figure out a way of de-fanging terrorists, at least partially, psychologically speaking. Figure out how to use their own psychology against them -- or trigger maturation that would get them to see that what they're doing is utterly self-defeating.