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| | Alexander Rose on Hamas on National Review Online |
 | | When terrorist leaders also have a sense of timing and know how to seize opportunities when they arise, it can be devastatingly successful. |
 | | The separatist LTTE helped pioneer suicide bombings, which are, by their very nature, indiscriminate, but first, tended to target specific Sri Lankan leaders (civilians were a perverse "bonus" score), and secondly, was adamant that it wanted an independent state on the northern tip of the island. |
 | | On one level, that of the abstract, it is waging "absolute war" a purely theoretical, but senseless, endless, and remorseless, state of conflict encompassing the total annihilation of the enemy against a far cleverer opponent focusing on fulfilling limited political aims. |
| www.nationalreview.com /rose/rose200403290903.asp (1383 words) |
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