Quote Originally Posted by GPaulus View Post
In this
context, the following statement by Duvall and Stohl deserves mention:
Motives are entirely irrelevant to the concept of political terrorism. Most
analysts fail to recognize this and, hence, tend to discuss certain motives as
logical or necessary aspects of terrorism. But they are not. At best, they are
empirical regularities associated with terrorism.
This is nonsense! There is always a motive. You may not understand it, but it is there. It answers the question who benefits.