Posted on 07/08/2005 11:01:56 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
The London bombing once again begs the question: Why haven't terrorists struck the United States in the past four years?
Certainly the effects of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are still felt by Americans.
Unfortunately, terrorists have succeeded in changing how we live our daily lives.
Americans worry more about being blown up now than when thousands of Soviet ICBMs with multiple nuclear warheads were pointed at the United States.
These days, we live under the constant fear of being the next victim of a random act, a mentality that makes us more fearful and less generous to strangers and forces changes in behavior that cost us all time and money.
Nonetheless, it is useful to ponder why the bad guys haven't struck within the United States itself since 9-11.
It certainly is not because Osama & Co. hate us less than they once did.
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A deal?! We're killing Al Queda every day - what kind of deal would we have with UBL?
I think the main reason is because Britain has allowed the Islamic Clerics in their country to incite Muslims in the country to terrorism against the UK non-mulsim population. The mayor of London himself, Livingston (?)has schmoozed these people for several months. Here in the US it is illegal for a preacher or anyone to incite someone to commit a terrorist act. E. G. a preacher advocating the killing of non-believers etc. We arrest people for this and have.
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I dont see any Americans afraid to fly, shop at the mall, ride subways, or enter high-rise buildings.
Americans are more afraid of pedophiles than terrorism (and rightly so).
That isn't it, obviously.
Whatever happened to the theory that Bush secretly made the ultimatum that if another attack occured in the United States, he'd nuke Mecca? I remember an article speculating that Bush would do what Israel secretly did to Egypt, that is, to let them know that if another attack occured, they'd blow up a dam that would flood half of Egypt in retaliation.
Jan. 7 2005: Has U.S. threatened to vaporize Mecca?
-PJ
Because they heard Bush was going to use a nuclear bomb on the senate. They want to wait for the damage reports on that before they decide their targets.
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What a despicable thing to say.
Maybe we have. :)
I would say we are not really "spared." We probably had citizens wounded or killed in London. Plus all our citizens abroad and are heroic service members are taking casualties in the war on terror.
Plus an attack on a ally like the U.K. is an attack on all of us.
*snrk* That works for me!
I'm more afraid of the ACLU and Supreme Court than terrorists. And they're more dangerous, too.
Ain't sayin'...
Sounds like a plan to me!
Is this sniveling weenie writing this while cowering in his basement or something. I don't know what he's talking about. I'm going golfing.
Al Queda's plan was not to attack the US-yet. They're out to effect public opinion in other countries that have allied with the US in their efforts against the jihadists. Those countries are more suseptable to these attacks. Their focus was to be Spain, Britain and Poland as per AQ docs captured by the Norwegians. The follow up attacks after success elsewhere is to be the US.
Xenu, the leader of the Galactic Federation, solved an overpopulation problem by freezing excess people in a compound of alcohol and glycol and transporting them to Teegeeack -- which we now know as Earth. There they were put in volcanos and exploded with hydrogen bombs.
Xenu's return will wipe out all life as we know it. Scientology is our only hope.
/sarcasm off
Me too was in HS in the eighties.
I remember the threat of the Russians well.
They're going for the soft underbelly of Europe. It sounds like a contradiction, but evil, in general, despises weakness.
America isn't being spared...its simply a tougher land to organize and enter. But that won't last forever. These Saudi nuts have the funding to play this game out. There is no doubt that they will eventually figure out a way to enter and a way to creat a threat to America. They can even cause havoc by just bombing American businesses in Europe if they really get desperate.
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