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Thanks! I effing love Naomi Wolf, the author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot & Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

I haven't heard much from Dr. Pape since youtube videos of several of his presentations starting proliferating around 2010. I've been wanting to hear, 5 years later, if the conclusions from his - books regarding the motivations of suicide terrorists still hold true with ISIS as they did al Qaeda years earlier.

I am also curious about his views on Libya now. He was interviewed weeks after the multi-national intervention in Libya had begun and he listed it as an example, a precedent, of "healthy" intervention. There's a comment on that video that asks several important questions:

> So my question(s) for Dr. Pape -

• Do you still see the Libyan intervention as a successful "healthy" intervention precedent or do you wish to recant or change your view of the interventions in Libya expressed in this video?
  

• And if not "healthy", then do you, in retrospect, believe that the intervention itself was ill-advised?
  
• Or do you simply believe that certain (unforeseeable) events occurred after the intervention that led to the current mess?
  
  

• And if [it was unforeseeable events], what events and how would you have tried to avoid them?
  
  

Are they readers? By them Pretext for War.

A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies https://www.amazon.com/dp/140003034X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_uPCODb4B4D1QA

in his book Kill Chain: The Rise Of The High-Tech Assassins, published two years ago, Andrew Cockburn describes how, if US surveillance suspects the presence of a "High Value Target" in a public place, regardless of restrictions on the number of innocents who can be murdered as "collateral damage," the Americans bomb the site and kill everyone there. He describes an instance where the US assassinated an underling of a "High Value Target" based on the mere assumption that the man would attend a funeral. The funeral was obliterated from the air though it was not known if the "High Value Target" was actually there. Every "military-age" male within the strike zone is automatically counted among the "hostile combatants."

They do these things knowing that innocent civilians will die; it is considered an acceptable, if unfortunate, price to pay.

That is, of course, not morally different from terrorists who explode suicide bombs in public places; considering the means justified by the ends.

Actually, the suicide bomber takes a risk infinitely greater than that of a drone pilot; and doesn't deserve the appellation of coward. Killing by robots, from a safe place several thousand miles away, is the very definition of cowardice.

America's wars are not only morally indefensible; they are the most cowardly in human history.

It's a no-brainer that the US only used the atomic bombs to test them and to intimidate the Russians:

> "There was never, from about two weeks from the time I took charge, any illusions on my part, but that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was carried out on that basis." -- US Army General Leslie Groves, the director of the WWII Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb

The only thing that keeps the idea that we dropped the bombs "to end the war" is US propaganda and nationalistic indoctrination.

But is it too politically incorrect to deal with the fact that the US deliberately sought to provoke Japan into attacking the US?

WWII vet, journalist and researcher Robert Stinnett has researched Pearl Harbor for decades, amassing much evidence -- everything from first-hand testimony from WWII vets to a Freedom of Information Act-uncovered US gov't document which outlined 8 steps the US needed take to provoke Japan into attacking the US.

The reason for the US wanting Japan to attack is simple.

After France fell so quickly the Roosevelt administration (and the world) was shocked! So the US sought to enter the war against Germany through the "back door" -- the German-Japanese alliance. Thus, the US carried out each of those 8 steps, as Stinnett details in his book "Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor"

> "Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war." -- Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, 1944.