On 7/4/2014 5:40 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
I am suspecting, based on intelligence made public,using the old Claude Shannon method
based on what the "faithful" te each other,nin Arabic and Farsi, that they view the
unraveling of the Bagdad,regime that Allah smiles upon their holy war. In their messages
to each other they encourage one another to bring divine punishment upon the Americans.
Can they seriously, do this? It may just be war talk, but their leader is experienced in
such matters. If they possess active new "toys" that they can heap upon the enemies of
Allah. I will say its a true threat, but how much lead time will they need to act, and
upon which target is unknown. I wouldn't ignore this or be content by telling ourselves
we are so big and bad, we can never be hurt. I love Amrerica, but I see us as a giant
with a glass jaw.
That's the kind of talk that gets us into wars we don't need to be in. "A glass jaw"?
OMIGOD those jihadists may sneak a punch that knocks the U.S. out! We'd better defend
ourselves mucking about in the middle east or they'll be ISIS tanks on the streets of New
York! This is exactly the same kind of fear mongering that Bush did about weapons of mass
delusion, and LBJ did about the domino theory. The point is not that we can't be hurt.
Killing some people in a nation of 350 million isn't hard (we do it all the time). But it
doesn't do anything to destroy or even diminish the nation, unless we succumb to fearful
responses like war and a police state.
Brent
Osama bin Laden and George W Bush are twin sides of the same war on Terra, which is really
a revolt against the Enlightenment and modernism.
--- Anne O'Reilly
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