Posted on 02/15/2009 5:51:30 AM PST by kellynla
We're bombarded with bad news -- the credit markets could freeze, millions more could lose their jobs, and today's recession could turn into a depression. But the danger we aren't hearing about could outweigh them all: the increased risk of a catastrophic terrorist attack.
A careful study of Osama bin Laden's videos, letters and Internet statements makes clear that Al Qaeda's goal is more than to terrorize Americans or to drive us out of the Middle East. Bin Laden believes that Al Qaeda can bring about the economic collapse of the United States -- and to achieve this goal, he has adopted a strategy of targeting America's financial centers and economic infrastructure.
Bin Laden cites the 9/11 attacks as proof that this strategy can succeed. In a November 2004 videotape broadcast on Al Jazeera, he boasted that Al Qaeda spent $500,000 on the event, while America lost, "according to the lowest estimate, $500 billion ... meaning that every dollar of Al Qaeda defeated a million dollars [of America] ... besides the loss of a huge number of jobs."
"America is a superpower, with enormous military strength and vast economic power," he concluded, "but all this is built on foundations of straw. So it is possible to target those foundations and focus on their weakest points, which, even if you strike only one-tenth of them, then the whole edifice will totter and sway."
The terrorists' ambitions are shaped by their experience fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
It's a little too late for the left to start calling for Obama to leave Bush's evil protections in place. I think they know that we are going to get hit without those protections and Obama will get the blame for dismantling those protections and Bush will get a lot of overdue credit. The people will also see that all the media rants about Bush's war on terror policies were way off base and wrongheaded.
It may take a terrorist strike or two against us to turn the people against the democrats, and the democrats are helping that happen by undoing Bush's terrorist policies. Let's face it, the democrat foreign policy is going to get us all killed eventually.
That is odd. I wonder what happened in the last 2-3 months.......
Because they are laying the groundwork for when Hussein takes away freedoms in the name of “national security”. He is going to do all the things of which they accused President Bush, and more.
The Treasury was established with the 16th ammendment which failed ratification of 2/3 by two (2) states. That's right the 16th amendment is as much a fraud as Obama.
“All the Islamists will need to do is sit back and watch while we implode. They wont have to lift a finger. Best part for them is that we will have done it to ourselves.”
Reluctantly, I have to agree.
Will people stop being so incredulous when the L.A. Times prints a good solid story? They do this regularly. Yes, I know, in terms of local California politics they are reliably in the tank for the Dhimmicrats. But from being the only U.S. media outlet to debunk the breathless Clinton administration claims of ‘genocide’ in Kosovo while the air campaign was going on (Agence France Press was the only other major media outlet to do so), to the present story, I can’t recall how many time FReepers have posted incredulity that the L.A. Times got something right.
No other major metro daily gets that reaction so often here. I can’t recall any “OMG! the NY Times, or Chicago Tribune, or Boston Globe or (fill in any major paper other than the L.A. Times)” comments, but there have been lots for the L.A. Times.
I think they must have the last editorial staff who actually value objective reporting and diversity of opinion. They may be almost all leftists to a man, but for that continued commitment to actual journalism, the L.A. Times deserves kudos.
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