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 to restore dignity to their communities -- real or virtual -- marginalized 
 by globalization and humiliated by military occupation.? 
  
 This not only obliterates Bush?s specious yammering about ?hating our 
 freedoms,? but also counters the propaganda from the mainstream media. 
 Every editorial columnist from Tom Friedman (who calls the bombers a 
 ?jihadist death-cult?) to Christopher Hitchens (who coined the phrase 
 ?Islamo-fascism?) has added to the media smokescreen by feeding the idea 
 that terrorism emerges from an irrational hatred of the West or from 
 religious zealotry. Neither is true. These theories have only confused the 
 public and perpetuated a conflict that serves the exclusive interests of 
 elites. 
  
 Pape?s July 9 column in the New York Times (?Al Qaida?s Smart Bombs? or 
 ?The Logic of Suicide Terrorism?) dispels the commonly held illusions 
 about terrorism and exposes the underlying reason for the current 
 violence: Occupation. The driving force behind terror attacks, Pape says, 
 is ?to compel the United States and its Western allies to withdraw combat 
 forces from the Arabian Peninsula and other Muslim countries.? Period. 
  
 Pape?s findings have armed us with the most priceless of weapons: the 
 Truth. He has uncovered the vile fraud that fuels Bush?s orgy of carnage 
 and pointed the way out of the war on terror. With a clear-eyed approach 
 to terrorism we can cut-through the demagoguery and propaganda and block 
 the Bush strategy for perennial war. 
  
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