Have they gotten THAT much better in the intervening years? Since the ONLY time an Arab or Islamist seems to muster courage is when he is conducting a terrorist attack against unarmed civilians (as opposed to ARMED Soldiers), I submit that the answer is no, and the pronunciations of mass doom are moronic. The saddest thing may be that those making those pronouncements have so little faith in their country's military, even though it has won every battle it has fought for MANY decades.
