[Milton-L] Samson as suicide bomber

[f.mohamed00 at gmail.com]

I believe Carrol Cox has in mind the work of Robert Pape, now available in  
the important book _Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide  
Terrorism_. Pape and others have shown that the Tamil Tigers, which is not  
a religious movement at all, is one of the groups most frequently engaging  
in suicide attack. But complicating the assertion that this is only the  
military tactic of a nationalist struggle is the culture that has developed  
in the Tamil cause, which elevates self-sacrifice to the kind of cosmic  
virtue that one would associate with religion.

For those interested, Wikipedia has a detalied synopsis of Pape's book:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Win
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