Topic: Origins of terrorism

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Margaret and Charles Hermann in their article Hostage taking, the presidency, and stress, discussed strategies for reducing stress in-hostage taking situations. Those five strategies are 1) humanizing the enemy 2) depersonalizing the situation for the president 3) “emotionally inoculating” the people involved in the decision process 4) encouraging dissent among the president’s advisers, and 5) continuing the study of how presidents manage stress. Choose two of their five strategies and critically analyze how this strategy could be applied to the Iraq counter terrorism and anti terrorism strategy.