Posted on 09/12/2001 10:46:00 AM PDT by Pay now bill Clinton
By William Markiewicz
Nobody to arrest; they are all dead. Literally, "Dead Men Walking" but with tremendous destructive potential in their trail. Who did it and who was able to go so far? A convenient reflex may be to bomb or -- for more effect -- to nuke Baghdad, or some other rogue; easy targets to hit and a largely symbolic triumph.
If faceless anarchist kids could effectively attack the NWO in Seattle, Genoa, how long would we expect to wait until the true professionals of terror strike? We saw very successful terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, in Yemen. Those should have been taken as a warning of things to come.
The US and its Nato stroll leisurely through the world as through their own estate, deciding by their own criteria which terrorists are tolerable, tracking at will inoffensive "ants" like Serbia, more vicious "ants" like Iraq, amusing themselves in the Balkans and over Iraqi skies. They remained idle observers of what's going on in the Middle East and now, suddenly, like an invasion from outer space, the mysterious fire ants appear, deadly on a massive scale, unreachable because choosing to die.
My first conclusion is that the elephants cannot keep stomping on ants forever. Just a few days earlier, we learned in the media that Putin is ready to negotiate with the Chechen rebels. He seems to be the first to understand, much ahead of Israel, that the rebels, terrorists or not, have to be taken into account.
It's important to notice that contrary to what happened in Genoa and Seattle, where the masses counted, the bloodiest and most destructive terror depends on the quality, not the number, of those involved.. Their tremendous technical, strategic, military abilities open our eyes on what and whom we are facing . It's not enough to have 'determination to stop terror' as Sharon and Bush preach. These are not microbes to eradicate by vaccination; they are intelligent people, unreachable by pressure because nothing counts for them except their goal. You cannot kill them because they kill themselves. You cannot arbitrarily appoint the stronger as freedom fighters and the weaker as terrorists, because the "weak" may reveal himself suddenly as stronger than you ever suspected.
When faced with an enemy that will die for a cause, they can not be frightened with personal destruction. In that the author is correct. But there are actions they will not resist and fear more than death.
The Arabs have been conquered for 3000 years. First the Greeks conquered them. Next came the Romans. That was followed by the Turks. Finally in first half of the last century it was the French and British. We freed them for which they are eternally ungreateful.
They are screaming what what they do fear. YOu need not listen carefully. They are screaming what they will spend all they have to protect.
Enemies can only be controlled when failure to leave you alone results in what they fear most. In this case it does not happen to be thier lives. For these people, it is the destruction of their cause that they fear. When people will die for a cause all you have to do is cause serious harm to their cause. It is the one thing they will do anything to avoid.
Elephants crush causes more easily than people as this author is about to find out.
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