I'm actually trying to figure out when/why the terrorism spiked and has continued to grow since 1979. Terrorists always try to blame it on "the Israel thing", but that happened long before 1979, so what was the significance of 1979... anyone know?
(I'm just sooooo tired of seeing every 3rd post mentioning Clinton... ok, that's an exaggeration, but it IS pervasive and unproductive.)
Perhaps the fundamentalist Islam takeover of Iran? Maybe that radicalized the whole fetid region, and encouraged the bastards?
Wasn't OBL exiled from S.A. in 1979?
So began the destabilization of S.A. and the extortion of money from any disaffected back-hump royals. Money was sent to "charities" with terrorist ties.
The front-line royals turned their heads to the flow of money as did everyone else around the world including -- us.
Thus the growth and "spike" of al Qaeda terrorism.
It was the fall of the Shah of Iran. It showed America as a weakling who wouldn't lift a hand to help an ally so the terrorists knew they could act with impunity.
Then there was the hostage crisis. It was handled so sloppily that the terrorists KNEW the US couldn't or wouldn't act.
If it comes right down to it though we could blame SKerry or even Kennedy. Kennedy because he got us into a war and then wouldn't commit enough force to win. He also let down the Cuban patriots at the Bay of Pigs. He made our nation into an ineffectual enemy. Castro is still there.
Skerry because he came home from the war and aided and abetted and even led the anti-war movement and further politically paralyzed the US from using the force it needed to win. The House and the Senate were run by Dimocrats for like 40 years.
So to sum it up. It is Dimocrats showing weakness at the threat of a bully that has caused the terrorism we have today and the only way to stop it is to squash them like bugs wherever we find them and the same to those who aid and abet them.
The reason we can and do also blame Clinton is because he made it harder to track the terrorists and he did little or nothing to stop them and they grew stronger and braver in the face of ineffectual or non-exestant reprisals.