[LS]

This is true but it undercuts his other thesis that suicide bombing is effective. In fact, the suicide bombers are hopelessly ineffective, reduced to ONLY seeking to change political situations in foreign countries because they cannot affect the MILITARY situation in their own---and the media plays a role in that.

[Iris7]

..." the suicide bombers are hopelessly ineffective, reduced to ONLY seeking to change political situations in foreign countries because they cannot affect the MILITARY situation in their own---and the media plays a role in that."

War is an aspect of politics. "An extension of politics by other means" as Clausewitz put it. War is politics using violence as a tool.

Perhaps you remember the war in Viet Nam. America lost there. The attack that knocked us out was political and here in the USA.