Just nuke them already.
Piles of nasty body bags change hearts and minds.
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.
Greg Craig, Tony Zinni, John Kerry, Armitage, what would you expect them to say?
Couldn’t the same be said about the Germans, Japanese, N. Koreans, etc just after those conflicts began and the US got involved?
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.
And most of the blame can be shared with the kind of people who you break bread with each day!
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."
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?
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.
>> 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.
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Number of terrorist attacks on US soil since we invaded Iraq: 0.
Crawl back in your hole, Bernie Finel.
"A greater terrorist threat is due to global warming. Just pull my finger and I'll tell you how."
“...jihadist terrorism currently poses a larger threat than it did before 9/11.”
True statement because:
1. The American people are lulled back into the sleep from which they were awakened on 9/11.
2. Since the borders remain open, more jihadists have entered the US since 9/11.
3. Our politicians continue to maintain that Islam is a ROP which is only an indication of their utter ignorance about and/or fear for Islam.
4. The possibility of a complete takeover by the dems at the next election only makes the prospect of an Al-Qaeda attack more plausible.
I’m normally a very optimistic person, but there is something wicked in the air. God I pray I’m wrong.
“Measured by the number of terrorist incidents, the jihadist threat is more significant now than it was prior to September 11, 2001,” said Bernard Finel, a senior fellow with the liberal-leaning American Security Project.
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“The angle of the dangle depends entirely upon the heat of the meat,” said Ben Dover, a senior fellow with the progessive Airport Stalls Pleasure Project.
it would be a lot worse if we weren’t drawing most of them to Irazq.
I disagree with this guy’s conclusions. Before 911, the US had it’s collective head stuck in the sand, mainly due to how the Clinton’s handled terrorist attacks in the 90’s. After 911, everything changed. We are in a much better defensive posture now due to the lesson of 911 and our interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.