Posted on 03/24/2008 6:45:59 AM PDT by jdm
Nice post.
Well, healthcare costs are quite a burden on any organization, nowadays.......
Health care. He quit AQ because of health care.
I guess he couldn’t afford Blue Crescent-Blue Shield?...........
If only they’d “invested” in universal health care, they wouldn’t have lost this terrorist to the infidels.
It COULD work in a Muslim country. Anyone that got too expensive to care for could be volunteered as a suicide bomber.
Interesting.
Yep. Don't laugh.
Push actually did come to shove ... and he was actually forced to answer the question: "will this AQ terrorists stuff really make my life better?"
The answer was "no".
So he quit.
The question for us in the West is how to convince other folks in south Asia and Asia Minor that terrorism and radicalism is the wrong approach?
One of the primary targets of the counter-jihad should be the wealthy money men that support it. Without the Golden Chain, al Queda would not exist. Bin Laden's real role appears more as a go-between, a venture capitalist representative between the wealthy money men and the operational people, who had the job of distributing funds to groups
Forewarned is forearmed. In the 70's cults, did the same types of tricks to bond the individual to the cult. The MSM put out cautions that if a group was isolating a person from their family, depriving them of sleep or food etc., to see it as a red flag.
Publish techniques used to destabilize a person - to make them vulnerable - then compare it to being used like a woman is used. Muslim men will be alerted and on guard - they're terrified of being treated like a woman.
I think one of the problems we have in this war is that we are fighting a religion rather than a political or economic ideology. When fighting the Soviets we had no qualms about smuggling in copies of books and radio transmissions telling why Marx and Lenin were wrong. Are we willing to undermine Islam by sneaking in books, CDs, DVDs, and radio and satellite programs telling why Mohammad is wrong or at least misused by the Wahabists in Saudi Arabia and the Ayatollahs in Iran?
If we had Hillary care and the guy was already in the U.S. as is likely. he could gotten that C-section and completed his mission as planned.
Infiltration and trickle down annihilation work well also.
Very good article by Ed Morrissey. Thanks for posting.
Excellent post...pass it along people!
“Publish techniques used to destabilize a person - to make them vulnerable - then compare it to being used like a woman is used. Muslim men will be alerted and on guard - they’re terrified of being treated like a woman.”
An excellent point.
During WWII we learned about propaganda in school to help make us immune. We need to teach this in the schools now to help immunize our young folk against cults.
It would also be nice if more moms could be at home with their kids and family ties could be stengthened, but I’m not holding my breath on that.
It comes as no surprise to me that bloodthirsty murderers who take pleasure in drilling holes in the faces of their victims would not think it necessary to extend compassion to the family members of fellow torturers. This is also the reason for the Anbar Awakening, where the locals quickly got sick of the values of the AQI types who promised to bring them real Islamic government but instead murdered people for playing music.
They quit shortly after their first actual engagement with U.S. forces.
One way or the other they learn that Jihad is bad for your health.
This is nothing new—it goes all the way back to the Mafia in places like New York. Al Capone was a hero in Chicago because he opened soup kitchens during the Depression.
Same thing with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. They ARE the government there, not the “real” government in Beirut. Hezbollah provides medical care, schooling (in radical Islam, of course), even garbage disposal.
And the reason we don’t smuggle in Bibles and anti-Wahabbist propaganda? Because the places we’d have to smuggle it into, like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and Yemen, are our “friends,” not our enemies like the Soviet Union. There’s no way we can undermine Wahabbist Islam in Saudi Arabia while buying billions of dollars of their oil and providing their government with massive economic aid.
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Most Americans don't realize 9/11 was supposed to have been much, much worse and potentially plung us into depression and chaos for 10 or more years, not to mention starting a nuclear war.
This guy just admitted it. What happened on 9/11 was 'botched'?
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