“I agree with you in terms of the timing. AQ has been trying to isolate the US in Iraq. They were successful in getting the Spanish to pull out and now they are working on the Brits, especially now that Blair is gone. We will be the last big target after they have isolated us. And they will wait until the political timing is right.”
If any liberal is elected president in 2008, they will be tested across this land by the Islamofascist serial killers shortly after they are sworn in within hours if not minutes after taking office.
Their response will be to pull all troops back home and to start deballing our military.
Agree to a point. The timing is tricky for AQ. They realize that the best hope that they have for victory in Iraq is a Dem in the WH. However, they also don't want to see the surge working in Iraq and realize that this coming September will be crucial for them to convince Congress that the war in Iraq in unwinnable and the US should get out. Whether that means a Tet-style attack in Iraq or a spectacular attack in the US clearly linked to our presence in Iraq or both is a matter of conjecture, but I wouldn't rule it out.
The best time may be just after the 2008 election or right after a new administration takes office in 2009, but AQ has no guarantee that a Dem will win the WH. Their best course of action would be for the war to be front and center as THE issue in the 2008 campaign and the best way to do that is to inflict major casualties on us, military and civilian, throughout the world including here. In any event, we haven't been attacked because of a conscious strategy by AQ, not because we have developed an impenetrable defense against terrorist attacks within the US.