But i have come to believe that al quaeda is looking to suck us into insolulable conficts in which they can turn the populations against us. So they attack mosques and do sectarian killings and we get blamed by them as the cause.
That is their aim but ironically they can't manage in the long run. They are too arrogant and brutal and they turn the local populations against them. In the short run it works, esp. as the BBC and their ilk seem to agree with them, at least on the important point - that the US is to blame, never Al Qaeda.
But even AQ can only manage in the short run because of all the Arab/Islamic cultural driver buttons they can push - honor, banding together against the infidel, supporting anybody who claims to be a pure muslim, allowing the "pure muslim" license to kill anybody he declares "apostate", etc, group solidarity above all, etc. And oh yes, expend whatever energy is left over making sure that your women stay pure and under your total control.
I swear, if somebody had to devise a masochism package for a culture, he could not do better than the package the Arabs have imposed on themselves. They have shackled themselves hand and foot. No wonder they have to invent lies about why they can't compete. |
