Posted on 06/23/2002 6:17:02 AM PDT by SJackson
Which really means they will strike when and where they can. It's not that hard to kill innocent people, so it isn't much of a brag.
That is similar to what the U.S. military did in having our troops practice invasions from the Persian Gulf on Kuwait in the Gulf war. We had no intention of making an invasion over water but we let Sadam's "spies catch" us practicing. We also created a lot of radio traffic to make it look like we were going to combine a sea attack, with a frontal attack on land. We maintained total silence on what we were going to do which was a flank attack around Sadam's left flank.
Al Quaida has done that too. There were rumors of flying planes into buildings years ago. There were many more vague rumors of attacks that did and will not take place.
The Arab Culture is quite different from ours in at least one respect. When Sadam became certain he was unlikely to be able to defeat us, he talked about the MOTHER of all battles. It is typical Arab strategy. When they know they have nothing up their sleeve they talk big and tough. If Sadam had believed he could do a NAM on us, he would have played weak.. as if it would be a piece of cake for us to defeat him. His object for his propaganda would have been to lure us into making an attack that would have been bad for us.
Likewise when arabs have the stuff to really hurt their enemy with terrorism they never adverstise they are going to do it. Like Arafat and his attacks on Israel, Yasser always talks peace while conducting war. When he is finally checkmated, he will talk war while conducting peace. It is teh Arab way.
When Al Quaida threatens to do us great harm in the near future, you can be pretty certain they don't have the means to do it.
When and if they do attack, you will hear nothing from them before the attack about an attack. They went to great lengths to keep us ignorant of the WTC and the Pentagon attacks. If there is a next time they will go for a secret attack again.
The nmore they scream "We are going to attack you!" the safer I feel. I we don't destroy them and they shut up, cover your rear. We are likely to get hit.
OMG!! They're going to unleash the dreaded KAREN CARPENTER BOMB!!
Just curious. They are the propaganda arm of the terrorists, and if we were serious about combatting terrorism--which we profess to be...
It's an Israeli news organization which provides summaries and translations from the Israeli and Arab press, similar to MEMRI
You worthless arab dogs can stick with Saddam and even osama, but just remember who has the biggest stick. America didn't start this war but we will finish it. And the more you hit our innocence the more resolve we gain to annahilate you. Hay muslim arabs, eat poop and die.
Eggs, you crack me up! (pardon the pun) :-)
Karen Carpenter bombs suffer from anorexia. They are far too skinny to do any damage.
It will happen soon but when... and what will be our response?
We know a lot of these bastids melted into Iran and then to Iraq.
Good starting points!
Karen Carpenter bombs suffer from anorexia. They are far too skinny to do any damage.
No, the Karen Carpenter bombs cause anorexia, especially due to uncontrolled vomiting.
1st rule of war. Never ever destory your enemies means of communicating with their followers. With out it, they can only surrender themselves. What is important is for all their followers to surrender. It is one reason we did not destory Tokyo Rose, or Lord Haw Haw in World War II. It was important for Germans and Japanese leaders to be able to tell their own people that they had surrendered. Lots of their followers would not have believed they surrendered, if their only source of info was us. We wanted them to lay down their weapons when their leaders told them too. That is what they did.
One other factor in world war II was that during the period of 1939 to 1943 the German people believed everything that Hitler told them in his media. But by 1944 even the Germans could see that Hitler's media was lying and the Voice of America was telling the truth. It was a major factor in destroying the German will to fight.
How do you prove to people that their leaders are liars, if you don't let their leaders lie.
Those two reasons were the logic in not destorying their media. It worked before. It will work again.
I wonder if it ever occured to these megalomaniacs that if they continue being cute, the destruction of Pakistan, Iran and Iraq is not out of the question?
It would behoove those countries to consider the implications of continuing to harbor and shelter these Mass Murderers, and the consequences to themselves if they fail to do so.
He's dead, Jim.
Damn it Captain, I'm a doctor not a undertaker.
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