Posted on 02/07/2008 2:32:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today University of Chicago professor Robert Pape has joined the Ron Paul 2008 campaign as a foreign policy advisor.
Dr. Pape is the foremost expert on suicide terrorism and the founder of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism. He is also the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and has published numerous articles on suicide terrorism and the use of air power in war.
Regarding the campaign, Professor Pape said, “Ron Paul's campaign is making a lasting contribution to the security of the United States and its allies. Indeed, I often tell audiences ‘Ron Paul has the right foreign policy to safeguard America.’”
Middle East expert Leon Hadar and national security analyst Ivan Eland have also joined the Ron Paul campaign as foreign policy advisors.
Leon Hadar is a Washington-based global affairs analyst whose commentary on U.S. foreign policy has been published in leading newspapers and foreign policy journals. A former UN correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, he is the author of Quagmire: America in the Middle East and Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East.
Ivan Eland is senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Dr. Eland spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He is the author of several books, including The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed.
To schedule an interview with Robert Pape, Ivan Eland, or Leon Hadar, contact the campaign at 703-248-9115.
Organizations are listed for identification purposes only.
I hope he’s not advising the HSA on the TIMING of terrorist attacks. He’s clearly got his timing off.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting. The Campaign goes forward. I did cast my vote for RP on Tuesday... with pride, instead of cringing as I marked the box. As would have happened with ANY other candidate the Pubbie party put forth. Maybe not so much for a Tom Tancredo or possibly Duncan Hunter, but it woulda been there.
I know Ron Paul is a team player and will provide the customary reach around.
“Quagmire: America in the Middle East and Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East.”
These defeatist publications are obsolete, especially since the Sunni Awakening. Perhaps the author could write an updated version: Quagmire: Al Qaeda in the Middle East.
Dr. Pape is the foremost expert on suicide terrorism and the founder of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism.
He's also Winner of the 2008 Moot Point Award.
No surprise, he contributes to antiwar.com and the Huffington post.
First, he legitimizes suicide terror, inflicted primarily against the larger population of other Muslims, by ascribing it’s motivation to the presence of westerners, not to religious fanaticism or a desire to create a Caliphate.
Next, he argues western policy should built around not “provoking” such attacks by leaving the region to the devices of that minority of terrorists.
Hello! Mr. Pape, your policy would incentivize suicide attacks.
Why is speculating about the motives of murderers “legitimizing” their actions? I’m guessing lots of police detectives around the world “legitimize” murder in exactly that way every day.
BTW new fundraising effort, though nothing from a source we can post here. Willis Carto and American Free free press, in recognition of their treatment of Paul, are requesting donations to silence Michael Medved and Michelle Malkin. I'm thinking they're more interested in the donations, but what do I know. There's no end to Ron Paul profit making ventures. Nothing to do with him though.
There is another alternative. Though he doesn't recognize the religious motivation, Pape does recognize that religious differences are a factor. We could simply address those religious differences, since Muslims are doing virtually all the bombing, if we all became Muslims the terrorist might end! Of course that's one of the reasons they engage in terror, so I fear he's leading us in a circle.
Today, a guy just killed a bunch of people at a town hall meeting because he was upset about parking tickets.
By Pape’s logic, this means we must examine our parking control policies lest we provoke more mass murders.
The problem is that once you start to bend policy to placate those who use violence, you are likely to get more violence, driven by an ever expanding set of motivations, for the simple reason people will see it works.
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