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2004-05-26 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-05-26 12:11:54 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why oh why do they hate us? Surely if we were to leave Iraq and elect John effin Kerry, AQ would realize that we've seen the error of our ways and no longer want to kill us.
C'mon people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now!!!

Oh right..they're murderous lunatics and this is a war.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-05-26 7:37:59 AM|| 2004-05-26 7:37:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 JerseyMike - Now, now. No using logic or facts here. That's mean and uncalled for.

How do you feel about things? That's the key question.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-05-26 8:55:47 AM|| [http://punictreachery.typepad.com/] 2004-05-26 8:55:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I know conventional wisdom says that Al Queda will try to pull a Spain here in the US come election time but my gut tells me they won't.

Al Queda has claimed numerous great attacks against the US in the past two years and so far nothing. Al Queda knows the one really successful attack against the US caused the President's poll numbers to shoot through the roof and caused them to lose Afghanistan. Clearly they know the US responds differently than Spain.

I believe they know how to manipulate the chatter and cause false alarms which cost us money and increase the terror. They can do this at little risk to themselves.

I think the Olympics is the next target and the US summer attack is just a smokescreen and I think Europeans will probably be the targets. From a tactical point of view this has a few advantages the most obvious are further European capitulation and American complacency for not having been attacked since 2001.

Of course its possible that they are just foaming at the mouth fanatics who don't think long term, but if that's the case then the idea of a pre-election attack rings kind of hollow as well.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-05-26 10:53:55 AM|| [politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-05-26 10:53:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ruprecht - I think you give far more credit to AQ's politico-military strategy than they deserve. If they can hit us and cause a Spain (in their minds) they'll be on it like a fly on shit. I expect the results would be contrary to the intended results, but they never seem to think that far ahead, nor do they understand the "American mind". They should never have launched 9/11, instead spreading under the radar....

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-26 11:21:08 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:21:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Then there was all the chatter predicting an attack on the US preceeding this past Christmas. I stated then and still think that it was Maskirovka: a deception plan to focus US attention elsewhere while AQ moved resources into Spain, Jordan, Iraq, Suadi Arabi, etc. AQ has already proven itself capable of psyops, infiltrating Arab intel services, launching coordinated operations -- why not deception ops?

Posted by 11A5S 2004-05-26 11:34:57 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:34:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The only presidential nominating convention they might have to worry about protecting would be the Republican convention!

11A5S is correct about deception. Look for layer upon layer. That's part of the second track--i.e., building toward the "BIG ATTACK." Like the W.W.II Kamikazes, these men have committed, already, to their own deaths, so anything and everything else--deception, botched plans, some of their own being caught or killed--is just "small potatoes" to them. Death is now integrated into their identity. They'll keep experimenting until they find out what works.

Key: "Anything less than a spectacular attack, such as a simple suicide bombing, would appear weak to al Qaeda's financiers." (Kind of hard to top the WTC 9/11 attack, huh guys? You sick Islamic bastards.)

The Moslem male mind (is that an oxymoron?) has 2 tracks: First and foremost the "BIG ATTACK" against the infidels, and the second is, building toward the "BIG ATTACK" against the infidels. Lesser attacks along the way are okay, if they accomplish progress, but the focus is still on track 1.

The "BIG ATTACK(s)" if they can get it to happen, is equivalent to a coordinated group orgasm to them, so it's really important. (This is what they do with their masculinity. They seek to disseminate destruction.) They don't want to fail, so they'll plan and wait and plan and wait and plan and wait, until they're pretty sure they can pull it off. Otherwise, they will consider themselves impotent. They will be "humiliated." Humiliation regarding "manhood" is what is feared the most by all Islamoidz, world-wide.

Right now, everyone is trying to equivocate their actions with what OBL pulled off. Their "dream" is to do something even more dramatic (then they get to be the "biggest" men in their peer group). Blowing things up is the preferred choice, obviously, considering the psychological context, but causing death and mayhem is okay with them too--they simply adjust, and equate mass murder with the "explosion" of their sexuality.

Their greatest enemy is our President, George Bush. They hate him and they fear him. And they fear him more than they hate him, because he has mounted an effective campaign against them. He is "humiliating" them. Therefore, one of the best strategies the average American can employ to help win the WOT, is to work to assure that the best CIC resides in the White House (with occasional trips to Crawford, TX!)

Posted by ex-lib 2004-05-26 1:14:41 PM|| 2004-05-26 1:14:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Frank G, Reread what I said. I said that I don't think they'll attack the US, that this is a smokescreen and that they realize if they hit us they get hurt.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-05-26 1:58:10 PM|| [politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-05-26 1:58:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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