>>>What Bush is doing will lead to greater terrorism in the US, not less.<<<
There were voices during the last Gulf War that America meddling in the Middle East would inspire terrorism. I suppose one could reasonably argue that Al Qaeda's recruitment success beyond the simple borders of Afghanastan, in some part, could be attrituted to the previous US attempt to solve an Arab problem that impacted Muslims worldwide.
So these days Al Qaeda cells, we are told, are secretly set up all throughout the world. Are they ready to strike again any time soon?
Somehow I get the feeling that in this war, time is not as big a factor to them, as it is to us. It'd be my guess that we'll see some smallscale terrorist actions leading up to the Second Gulf War; that we'll see a ramp up of more terrorist action once the war is in force; and that at it's completion we'll see another long delay of terrorist action.
Why?
I'm guessing that anti-American hatred has already been bred and sown; that Third World conditions will worsen, rather than improve (remember, the nature of the beast to take, rather than to give--why would this change?); that the new tools of terrorism, which today are relatively infant, will mature and thereby provide more people with more terrorist options for target.
Thus, instead of what we're seeing today--occassional major event here and there, coupled with minor ones--we'll tomorrow witness many worldwide largescale terrorist events. After all, when hope seems lost prudent decisions become fewer and fewer. Don't believe me? Just examine how and why there are so many suicide bombers in Palestine.
I guess what I'm saying is Bush may be looking forward two years toward reelection, but the terrorist thinking may be rooted in something five, 10, 20 or more years down the road. The Twin Towers/Pentagon tragedy came 11 years after Gulf War I. What will follow Gulf War II? |
