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smooth · 09-21-2004, 08:09 PM

Have you considered that "they" don't need to attack again because their goals have been achieved?

If their goal is to impose a government similar to the one they want in their own land (a conservative, religious political order), and if our current political landscape is shaping up that way, what motivation would anyone have for attacking again?

I would think that the claim that they will attack again shortly stems from the belief that terrorists are irrational killers. I already stated in other threads that I believe them to kill for concrete objectives--they have reasons.

Put that aside for a moment, along with your notions of what I politically support, and entertain these notions for a sec:

1. The current political order is altering to become more conservative and more christian based than it has been in the past 50 years (I'm not going back further than that for this analysis).

2. This is due to a number of things: the machinations of a vocal minority that was able to wrestle the reigns of its party (but maybe not this election cycle, the extent of their power actually remains to be seen) from corporate and individualistic planks; the desire of people to hunker down and repudiate risky endeavors in the face of external threats (they would rather do what is known to work rather than risk something that might have better results but, if it fails, possibly create greater harm.

3. An attack would reverse this trend, after demonstrating that the current admin didn't achieve what it claimed to--safety.

Basically, our current government, currently increasingly controlled by radical christians, is sliding toward the same values of intolerance as the Muslim radicals.

Why would they want to unravel that?

09-21-2004, 08:09 PM	#19 (permalink)
smooth Junkie Location: Right here	Have you considered that "they" don't need to attack again because their goals have been achieved? If their goal is to impose a government similar to the one they want in their own land (a conservative, religious political order), and if our current political landscape is shaping up that way, what motivation would anyone have for attacking again? I would think that the claim that they will attack again shortly stems from the belief that terrorists are irrational killers. I already stated in other threads that I believe them to kill for concrete objectives--they have reasons. Put that aside for a moment, along with your notions of what I politically support, and entertain these notions for a sec: 1. The current political order is altering to become more conservative and more christian based than it has been in the past 50 years (I'm not going back further than that for this analysis). 2. This is due to a number of things: the machinations of a vocal minority that was able to wrestle the reigns of its party (but maybe not this election cycle, the extent of their power actually remains to be seen) from corporate and individualistic planks; the desire of people to hunker down and repudiate risky endeavors in the face of external threats (they would rather do what is known to work rather than risk something that might have better results but, if it fails, possibly create greater harm. 3. An attack would reverse this trend, after demonstrating that the current admin didn't achieve what it claimed to--safety. Basically, our current government, currently increasingly controlled by radical christians, is sliding toward the same values of intolerance as the Muslim radicals. Why would they want to unravel that? __________________ "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." -- Walter Lippmann "You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman