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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (202398)9/16/2004 7:53:02 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 1575627
 
Yes, Zarqawi is a known affiliate of Al-Qaeda and he is operating freely in Iraq. So that's one less person organizing attacks in the U.S.

As far as your theory that attacks on U.S. soil are a very uncommon occurance in general, and as such the last 3 years of no attacks was to be expected. Well, I don't buy it. Bush's proactive attacks in Iraq and an escalation of our security posture at home are the reason there have been no more attacks. The reason why there hadn't been more attacks on U.S. soil prior to 9/11 is that the cauldron took awhile to boil over in the Middle East.

Terrorism has always been a favorite tactic, but it didn't get widespread funding and credibility until Osama made it so. The more success he had in attacking us overseas, the bolder he got and the more funding and support he got. That resulted in attacks within U.S. borders. The combination of being actively vigilant and upping our security posture plus going after terrorists aggressively throughout the world has made it much more difficult for them to strike us again.

For example, if you are trying to kill me and I am standing still, it's fairly simple for you to aim your gun and shoot me. But if I start chasing you and continuously fire my M-15 at you, you're going to have a hell of a time taking time out to stop, aim, and fire. Same principal applies with what we are doing to Al-Qaeda and terrorists around the world.
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