Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Fighting Them Over There

That would appear to be the desire of both Cheney-Bush and bin Laden. The "following us back here if we leave Iraq" ridiculous line (What? They can't find their way here if we don't lead them? How'd they get here on 9/11?) should be put to rest not only for the stupidity, but for the inaccuracy...

As Professor Robert A. Pape proved in his book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism – by studying every single individual suicide bomber on Earth between 1980 and 2004 – the one characteristic that all suicide bombers have in common is the presence of foreign combat forces in their country – not Islam.

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The Bush team's invasion killed a few birds with one stone for bin Laden: It got rid of the Ba'athists, put tens of thousands of Americans within rifle range and it created a training ground and propaganda tool for new recruits.

There had never been a suicide bombing in Iraq before 2003. Never. Now there have been well over a thousand.

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Ask an old Commie. He'll tell you, "The action is in the reaction."

This is why they knocked down the towers: al-Qaeda's purpose was to give the United States "no choice" but to come fight on their territory personally instead of, as they saw it, through their Western-installed governments and the Israelis, and then "bleed" us until the American people demand an end to the intervention or the dollar breaks, whichever comes first.

Bin Laden couldn't have laid out his strategy more clearly than in his speech of October 2004:

Continue reading at Antiwar.com...


....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


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