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Gwynne Dyer: Terrorism 101 offers lessons in how to respond to ISIS The key insight was this: terrorist movements always want you to overreact, SO DON’T DO IT. The terrorists usually lack the popular support to overpower their opponent by force, so they employ a kind of political jiujitsu: they try to use the adversary’s own strength against him. Most domestic terrorism, and almost all international terrorism, is aimed at provoking a big, stupid, self-defeating response from the target government. straight/news/743321/gwynne-dyer-terrorism-101-offers-lessons-how-respond-isis
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:34:14 +0000

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