Martyrdom Is Stupid, Meaningless & Criminal

If civilization hopes to prevail against the terrorist thugs and the massive populations in whose names they act, we need to attack their core ideologies, in much the same way that we attacked the Soviet mindset during the Cold War.

The United States, and our allies, insisted that the Soviet perspective was fundamentally flawed because:

(1) Command and control economics, with its top-down, governmental planning of production and consumption is inefficient at best, and it stymies innovation, distorts investment, and discourages growth. Free people enjoy a more prosperous life.

(2) Communism and individual liberties are at odds. Liberate people from constraints and they