Tell that to John O'Neill who retired from the FBI after 10 years of both hunting Osama and trying to warn everybody who'd even bend him an ear about the threat to our country from Osama. He was forced out of the Bureau and took a cushy job for $300,000 a year as chief of security for the World Trade Center. This was August 2001. On September 11th, he died along with the others.Those 19 Hijackers were suicide bombers. I'd say they not only staggered the government they staggered our economy pretty hard after the government grounded all commercial air for a week. What about a suicide bomber that walks down to the middle of WallStreet with a nuke in a duffle bag? Think that'd stagger the country?
The general militia of flight 93 were struggling with their enemies in the cockpit. A voice was heard in the background, right before the staggering end to the battle screaming ALLAHU AKBAR!! (God is Great). In fact nearly every Jihadist screams the same thing as they give their lives to enter paradise by killing infidels. I think that qualifies as "invincible conviction" in a pretty concrete manner.
Your comment raises a number of points that would take awhile to respond to. Let me just say that I think the author's phrase about the "invincible conviction" of the moronic Muslim bomber is way too florid and maudlin -- it gives the murderer a lot more moral and tactical credit than he deserves. The author is on weak ground, so he strains too hard to make his points.
No suicide bomber can "stagger" our government....
If you've travelled to Israel before 1994 and then after the 2nd intifada, you understand how random suicide bombings have changed the workings of an entire society.
Yours is an even stronger example.