Terrorist Threat Greater Than Before 9-11, Says Expert

Cybercast News Service ^ | 09/05/07 | Monisha Bonsal

[jmyrlefuller]

Just nuke them already.

[RightWhale]

• U.S. foreign policy should focus on "changing hearts and minds" in the Muslim world.

  Piles of nasty body bags change hearts and minds.

[BurbankKarl]

Who is Bernard Final?

[Brilliant]

I don’t know how you make this measurement. If you measure it retroactively, then there is no way it can be greater than pre-911 because it was 100% then.

If you measure it as we viewed it before 911, then of course it’s greater, because no one gave terrorism a second thought in those days.

[steve8714]

Greg Craig, Tony Zinni, John Kerry, Armitage, what would you expect them to say?

[crazyshrink]

Couldn’t the same be said about the Germans, Japanese, N. Koreans, etc just after those conflicts began and the US got involved?

[i_dont_chat]

Finel noted that, instead, U.S. foreign policy should focus on “changing hearts and minds” in the Muslim world.

Hmmmmmmm. Easier said than done.

We have to come from a positipn of strength, not weakness.

How to do change the hearts and minds of people who think it noble to DIE while killing you? You must kill them BEFORE they have a chance to kill you. If we wait around and TRY to change their hears and minds, we will be killed, our society destroyed and our country taken over.

Some people just don’t understand the nature of our enemy.

[himno hero]

HEY FINEL!!!,

what is a infidel in koranic foreign policy?

[Grateful One]

And most of the blame can be shared with the kind of people who you break bread with each day!

[absolootezer0]

Finel noted that, instead, U.S. foreign policy should focus on "changing hearts and minds" in the Muslim world.

can we change them from functioning organs to pulped masses of flesh?

[Maceman]

Finel noted that, instead, U.S. foreign policy should focus on "changing hearts and minds" in the Muslim world. "On one hand we want people to reject terrorism in the abstract, on the other hand there are a series of beliefs which tend to justify the jihadist movement, just like terrorism -most notably that the United States is supporting these oppressive regimes in the region and that the United States is sort of this aggressive power which is out to attack and harm Islam," he said. "That's not what American foreign policy is all about," said Finel, "but nonetheless it's a belief that has a lot of credibility in the Muslim world."

Pish tosh. This article is just the usual left wing nonsense.

Killing terrorists demoralizes those who would join the movement. Appeasing them increases morale among would be joiners.

As Sun Tzu put it: "If your enemy is angry, irritate him."

[weegee]

There was a 1993 WTC bombing, and then some embassy bombings, and then the USS Cole and then the 9-11 attacks.

What’s happened to US territories since then?

[Froufrou]

“Changing hearts and minds” is just a joke.

To do that, we’d first have to understand why we’re so hated. I don’t think a jihadist could even say why. They’re so brainwashed they don’t know how to think anymore.

[Wil H]

"In short, the war in Iraq has not noticeably reduced the numbers of jihadists outside of Iraq; rather it has created many more fighters to join the movement," he said. "This finding fundamentally undermines the Bush administration's claim that we are 'fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here.'

This is a totally flawed argument on Finel's part.

Islamic terrorism has been growing continuously since the 70's. He can have no knowledge as to how much MORE we might have been facing had we not gone into Iraq.

To argue that our presence in Iraq caused more terrorism is unprovable, terrorism was increasing anyway.

[weegee]

It’s had a way of bringing the jihadists out into the light.

Just like the “12 cartoons” didn’t cause rioters to radicalize, it gave them an EXCUSE to riot.

[SnakeDoctor]

>> Terrorist Threat Greater Than Before 9-11, Says Expert

One expert? One lousy expert? Not even plural “experts”?

As an attorney, having dealt with “expert” witnesses ... I assure you that you can find an “expert” that will say virtually ANYTHING.

Excuse me if I don’t rush out to purchase a gas mask.

H

[RightWhale]

• why we’re so hated

  Will always be so. The trick is to get people to more or less live and let live anyway and we will all get rich.

[wideawake]

"This finding fundamentally undermines the Bush administration's claim that we are 'fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here.'

Number of terrorist attacks on US soil since we invaded Iraq: 0.

Crawl back in your hole, Bernie Finel.

[Froufrou]

I know you’re right. These people wouldn’t cut us any slack. I had breakfast next to a table with 10 men, four of whom were obviously Arabic-speaking. It was very hard to choke down my food, I was so nervous.

Even as a tried to not eavesdrop, my ears were straining to hear everything.