The East Bloc had a 40 year strategic deception plan, launched 1962 or there abouts. In addition to the Gramscian long march through the Western institutions, the plan also called out a number of key elements:
1. The 1970s and 1980s extreme build up of East Bloc capabilities, followed immediately by a feigned "fall" that would cause the West to unilaterally disarm. The deployment of the 1st wave of arms was a dry run for a later deployment of 2nd wave arms. Many of the non-electronic components of the 1st wave were designed to be reused in a later generation of arms that would utilize advanced electronics that were not available at the time of the first wave. Many of the first wave of arms were only destroyed on paper, in spite of the Western liberal media claims that the East Bloc have also disarmed, the fact remains that only a small percentage of the disarmament has been verified real time by Western inspectors personally vieiwing their destruction. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that the remaining unverified components have not been rebuilt into new systems, hidden in mothballs or redeployed to the Axis of Evil for plausible deniability purposes.
2. The current Islamists derive from a collection of groups that arose during the 1960s out of the ashes of earlier groups that Hitler helped to organize during WW-II both to undermine the British and to prevent the already budding nation of Israel from forming. Mein Kampf was translated into Arabic more than any other language. Need i say more?
3. The current Islamists also derive from a terrorist culture that jelled during the early 1970s and was exclusively trained in camps funded and run by the Soviet Union, the PRC, or both. The trainers were mostly Spetsnaz and KGB.
4. Conveniently, and utterly coincedent with the feigned "fall" of 1989 - 1991, Afghanistan was turned over to a state of near anarchy by Gorby, but an anarchy that was manipulated skillfully by both the KGB (Rabbani et al) and ISI (Taliban). At the same time, and quite remarkably, Iraq ceased cooperation with the US (they were still a Northern Tier ally at the time) and became a Soviet client - the implication clearly being that they had been two timing for quite a while prior to that point. And, also quite conveniently, the stand off around Israel, simmering since the mid 1980s, once again boiled over in the final fury that led to the ultimate appeasing idiocy of Oslo and the set up for the currently grave conditions.
5. I am surprised that very few analysts have noted the strange sort of immediate "replacement" of Soviet led anti-Westernism and threats of mass destruction by the seeds of the same by the Islamists during the "Perestroika (Deception)" time frame much lauded by us Westerners as our "winning" of the Cold War. If we "won" the Cold War, then it was in the same fashion that the Triple Entente "won" WW-I, with a similarly ambiguous, non-reconstructionist and ultimately appeasing settlement that involved neither occupation of enemy capitals by Allies, overturning of all structures of the offending regimes, and punishment of their leadership, nor wide spread verified disarmament and force reengineering. And, similar to "republican" Weimar Germany, the "former" East Bloc now dances with the Islamist Bloc in a manner similar to Weimar's dances with Russia and others that allowed rearmament by proxy. In the meanwhile, even not considering the cheating and bad faith by the "former" East Bloc (and the armament of the PRC), the Islamist / Trans-Asian Axis clearly increase their anti-Western and anti-American bent.
Given all of the above, it makes a very "interesting" scenario to review the following sequence of events:
* 1993 WTC attack
* N. Korea stand off 1994
* Kobar towers attack
* 1995 OKC attack
* Attacks on embassies
* Attack on USS Cole
* 2000 Elections Gore putsch
* 2001 Attack on EP3 by PLAAF
* 9/11
The example in the article was Czechoslovakia and Romania, where the respective Presidents called Arafat a terrorist and endorsed Israeli incursions into the West Bank and Gaza to root out Arab-backed terror. They were summarily chastized by the EU, and their admission into the EU was threatened if they didn't toe the EU pro-Arab line.