Afghanistan Special: Isolationism & Leading by Example. Part 1 of 3.

We are defending the enlightenment.

Undistracted by the ephemeral political tides of our times, poet and theologian Alex Brocklehurst, international relations specialist Dr Roger Townshend and philosopher Dr Ray Scott Percival rev up the conversation and take a deep dive into the crisis, placing it in broad historical perspective.

Talking points:

1. Leading by example and peaceful argument —methods compatible with the enlightenment.
2. The strategic logic of suicide terrorism.
3. Terrorists as rational (but highly immoral) actors.
4. The state-of-the-art thinking of Professor Robert Pape.
5. Isolationism.

For an account of terrorism and fanaticism within the wider issue of human rationality/irrationality see my book The Myth of the Closed Mind.