Posted: 11/3/2004 3:26:04 PM EDT
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Many expected a terrorist attack before our election, like the one in Spain earlier this year. It didn't happen. Why do you think this is? It is known that they want to attack, and it is known that they really would have liked to mess up the election, and they didn't do it. Could the simple answer be that the GOV has done such a tremendous job (better than anyone knows) knocking out Al Qaeda that the terrorists CAN'T pull off an attack as easily as some people expect? |
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There is an old saying about the ability of the US government to grind exceedingly slow and fine. We have probably pretty well dismantled their network. I figure that the so called sleepers here are saying well lets see I can blow my self up or take my kid to soccer practice. Mmmm decisions decisions. Guess I will have to hold off until I hear from some one. Seriously, I think we have them reasonably contained. But now the challenge is keeping them that way. |
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I've gotta admit, I really did expect to see between 1 and 4 IEDs set off in polling places in various parts of the country. It would have been such an obviously effective attack (from a terror standpoint, but it would have probably driven MORE republicans to the polls) that I was really suprised it didn't happen. I take that it didn't happen as a testamate to the effectivness of the GWOT and the fact that we're pulling terrorists to Iraq rather than over here. |
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I was also expecting an attack. A few things happened--their networks here and overseas may be in disarray, and their funding sources may have been cut back. It is also possible they are losing an intellectual battle within Islam; people in the Middle East must be realizing that attacking the US is dumb. Finally a lot of terrorist resources are being drawn to Iraq. When the US started attacking the German and Japanese homelands, Japanese and German attacks everywhere subsided as they withdrew resources to the home country. GunLvr |