What Terrorists Want
ISBN: 9780719563072
Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, set out to write a single-volume, nonpartisan explanation of ",terrorism in all its complexity.", Her reach, however, exceeds her grasp in an evaluation that leans more on theory than practice and is unrelenting in its attack on current policy. In fact, she',s certain that the war on terrorism cannot be won and advises that we limit ourselves to ",containing the threat.", Richardson (When Allies Differ) follows two converging threads: Part I seeks to demystify terrorism, Part II outlines a proper response to the terrorist threat. There is much valuable information, but Richardson is too quick to dismiss or oversimplify issues: ",there is no single cause of terrorism",, ",efforts to produce a terrorist profile have invariably failed",, and trying to isolate economic causes is ",complicated.", The author insists that ",terrorists are human beings who think like we do,&...
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