Terrorist's New Tactics?

The day has come when terrorism moves west. With the 3 Iraqi style car bombs in the UK over the last few days, it is obvious that the terrorist are rethinking their MO on how to reek havoc in the west.

I think realizing they over shot their mark with 9/11 when it comes to just how much death and destruction they could heave on us (I really think, Rosie be damned, that bringing down the WTC WASN'T in the big scheme of things on that day. Fire and death yes, but no one had any thought the buildings would come down. UBL is smart, but he ain't that smart! No one is.) that the only way to top 9/11 would be a nuke. I just have to think that a nuke really isn't what they want to do for a very simple reason. As crazy as they are, and they ARE crazy, if you set off a nuke, you galvanize the world against your cause in such a way that you never recover and also sterilize a portion of the Earth that will take thousands of years to be habitable again. Not a receipe for gaining a foot hold in the new world for UBL's version of religion. But like I said, they are crazy and their cause and effect analsys doesn't go much beyond next Thursday at the latest.

So, like everyone else, they seem to be scaling back. Economizing if you like. More "bang" for the buck, pun intended. Iraq has certainly shown them that for a couple of dinars you can put together a whopper of a media event that may not have the wall-to-wall media coverage capacity of 9/11, but in the long run do as much media damage. Hell, out of three V-BIED's (vehicle borne IED's - don't you just love those acronyms the military comes up with!) only one actually did something and it only started a small fire and killed no one and only slightly injured one bystander. But look at the world media. They have gone off the deep end, hanging on to every sniffle and sneeze that comes out of Scotland Yard.

That Al Qaeda media machine is a genius. They pull off a half ass attack and get the coverage of a full scale victory. The end result is EXACTLY what they wanted! They don't care that the cars didn't explode. The media acts as if they DID! The world goes into a panic. As far as Al Qaeda is concerned, mission accomplished!

Maybe we just need to ignore them from the media stand point and let law enforcement and the military go get them quietly. Just tell us when they round them all up or kill them all. Take the camera away and you take 90% of their fuel away. That has been proven time and time again in the Middle East. They play EVERYTHING to the camera. But no one is going to listen to me. Too many hours of time to fill on the all news channels.

This time the good guys got lucky and as the old saying goes, "I would rather be lucky than good any day!" And ah, yes, John Edwards? There really IS a War on Terror. Just turn on your TV set. The world media is covering it, including your beloved BBC. And let's hope to God it DOESN'T come here. It might put a kink in your $400 haircuts.