Asia times

[Plane]

May 24, 2006

......The security dilemma that al-Qaeda has posed on the US is unmatched since World War II. Devastating terrorist attacks on US soil have generated an atmosphere where aerial bombing and harsh counter-insurgency in Iraq are viewed by most Americans as legitimate self-defense tactics, not offensive imperialism. Should there be future terrorist attacks on US territory, this mentality could get hardwired into the American psyche, making the task of the peace movement that much more Herculean.

The only way for the Iraq war protesters to gain ground is to entrench new thinking that retaliation (especially directed at the wrong targets) does not guarantee security, but worsens it. In other words, they will need to use the same empirical facts of rising terrorist threats to the American people to prove that war on Iraq makes the US less safe.

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HE24Ak04.html


But the "surge" seems to have harmed the strength of Al Queda.

So would another attack on US soil in the scale of 9-11 galvanise and unify the American people , or demoralise and weaken our fighting will?

[hnumpah]

So would another attack on US soil in the scale of 9-11 galvanise and unify the American people...

You mean like the attacks  on 9-11 galvanized and unified them against Osama, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban...

...or demoralise and weaken our fighting will?

...or do you mean like how finding out they were suckered into a war that wasn't justified against an enemy that posed no threat to us, and being bogged down there for almost five years now, has demoralized them?

I think if there is another attack on Americans, and the government can prove who did it, the people would be more than willing to strike back and do whatever it took to avenge the attack. However, I think they will be more leery of just jumping in feet first whenever the government says there is an impending threat. By foolishly leading the people into the Iraq war, the government has shown the people they have to require more proof than simple scaremongering.

[Plane]

What sort of proof?

Was there ever such a proof earlyer than -11?