Comment Re:go read history (Score 1) 3468
If there's no connection between al Qaeda and Iraq, why in the world would these terrorists be so upset about Iraq?
You said it yourself, these people are far from rational. No one knows if there were connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It's unlikely, though, since Osama Bin Laden disliked Hussein's secular govermnent. Also, Hussein viciously suppressed Islamic religous leaders.
This is not to say that they act randomly, of course. We've killed over 22,000 Arab people in Iraq. You're Osama Bin Laden: Gosh! How are you ever going to use this to your advantage and make the U.S. appear evil and anti-Islam?
Innocent people don't deserve this, and we are innocent. But our leaders aren't. Our leaders, past and present, are greedy and stupid, and that is a a large contribution to the cause of all this.
Also, why haven't the terrorists attacked since 9/11? The argument that it's because we're "winning" the "war on terror" is senseless. Our security policy, save Marshall Law, will never be tight enough to prevent a terrorist from coming into the U.S. and shooting someone. Hopefully it could one day stave off the larger attacks, though.
Maybe they prefer to be more deliberate, and wait, and implement larger attacks.
You said it yourself, these people are far from rational. No one knows if there were connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It's unlikely, though, since Osama Bin Laden disliked Hussein's secular govermnent. Also, Hussein viciously suppressed Islamic religous leaders.
This is not to say that they act randomly, of course. We've killed over 22,000 Arab people in Iraq. You're Osama Bin Laden: Gosh! How are you ever going to use this to your advantage and make the U.S. appear evil and anti-Islam?
Innocent people don't deserve this, and we are innocent. But our leaders aren't. Our leaders, past and present, are greedy and stupid, and that is a a large contribution to the cause of all this.
Also, why haven't the terrorists attacked since 9/11? The argument that it's because we're "winning" the "war on terror" is senseless. Our security policy, save Marshall Law, will never be tight enough to prevent a terrorist from coming into the U.S. and shooting someone. Hopefully it could one day stave off the larger attacks, though.
Maybe they prefer to be more deliberate, and wait, and implement larger attacks.
