Posted on 10/29/2004 9:17:29 AM PDT by quidnunc
When Mohammed Atta slammed his fleet of hijacked planes into the Manhattan skyline on September 11, his masters expected that such a wound would unravel the “façade” of American strength. Beyond three thousand Americans and others massacred horribly, Usama Bin Laden believed that the attacks would expose the soft underbelly of American power, implanting systemic paralysis on all US war efforts. Thus, the final goal of the war on the Infidels has always been to crush America’s institutions and way of life so that Americans would ultimately surrender to the marching Caliphate-to-be. From this perspective the September 2001 attacks aimed at igniting three fires.
One was to create deep fears in the hearts of Americans, so that they would revolt against their government. The Salafi strategists thought they would apply the Madrid paradigm two years earlier in New York and Washington. The essence of this attempt failed, as the US unified its ranks and declared a War against Terrorism. A second fire was expected to be a major backlash against Muslims and Arabs within the US. Despite claims of many incidents, the American ethnic structure remained intact. The third sought fire by Bin Laden was to drag the US into the battlefield of al Qaida's choosing, that is everywhere and nowhere.
But such a scenario was not to be: the Jihadi project failed to attain these objectives, and America and its allies emerged strengthened with a new resolve out of the fires of Islamist hatred, removing the Taliban, the world Jihadi fortress, and reaching the borders of Pakistan from the West. … But even though al Qaida's initial plan fell short, America cannot afford any complacency in the face of terror, for a second generation plan has been erected on the ashes of the first.
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Guess they sorta didn't understand Americans, huh?
You got that right. Maybe Toby Keith can send them a few copies of the Angry American.
"Usama Bin Laden believed that the attacks would expose the soft underbelly of American power, implanting systemic paralysis on all US war efforts."
Bin Laden's aim was off by one president.
Yea. They jugdegd us by their stupid selves. WEe have our own brand of stupidity in America! We back up when we are hit and fight hard.
That and Somalia. 9/11 is at the feet of Clinton. The earler post of "off by one president" is accurate.
I understand why they would think we are cowards. They just didn't look closely enough.
I wonder how you say OOPS in Arabic ... should sound interesting coming from a decayed corpse as well.
To bad, so sad for Al-Qaeda and company - don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you stupid f***s.
Good find. I wish that all the opponents of the President could read this article. Looks like the terrorist learned how to do this from the Vietnam era.
They sure did not look at history when they thought suicide bombers would make the Americans back off too! Japanese kamikazes make the islamofascist suicide bombers look like pikers and everyone knows how well they fared. The Japanese suicide tactics just made us reach for another weapon to use that would not engender large American casualties. Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Interesting Death Cult Article BTTT
(((PING)))
And they think they're tolerant, ha!
Complete Bull, ordinary people were already using disk operating systems at a far less cost then anything Bill Gates or IBM would later offer. CPM systems were up running and doing fine then Bill Gates stole DOS and conned IBM. What made Gill Gates was the United States Government declaring IBM pc to be the standard desk top PC and MANDATING that everyone that does business with the government MUST use IBM PCs that is about as far from free enterprise and market driven as you can get.
The point is that Microsoft made computers accessible to ordinary people. Apple didn't get the job done.
kamikazes attacks were by far the most effective weapon used against our naval forces in the Pacific. Too little too late as it turned out but to do underestimate the damnage done by Kamikazies, it was extensive. That said, had Japan used that weapon earlier we most likely would have found an equally effective counter measure. Something like kamikazes proof ships. Super fast? Heavy armor? Radar guns? Sub surface?
Sorry for the rant, it just bugges the hell out of me when people talk about free market and Microsoft in the same breath. Microsoft never competed in a free market, Microsoft owns it's success to the IBM and the feds.
this premise is true the advent of personal computers and desktop workstations has completely changed everything, we are not as vulnerable to an attack on a localized target. at least one that would do much damage strategically. the walmart post is an example take out headquarters you still have thousands of full stores and a system that virtually all inventory could be drop shipped form each manufacturer.
net loss would be marginal. it is mainly a pyscological affect but they are stuck in the dark ages and dont understand.
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