<<One of the things that the Al Queda strategy depends on is our reluctance to overreact , they are depending on our patience to be neverending, and our main strength to be withheld.>>
Quite the opposite, they hope to provoke you into attacking and occupying Arab land, Iraq was a master stroke because (a) they hated that bastard Saddam Hussein and his un-Islamic "Arab Socialists" even more than you do and (b) the attacks generated more anti-American hatred than anything al Qaeda could ever generate on their own, radicalizing the Arab populations of American client states and thus weakening the hold of the American puppet rulers, particularly in Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The more they see of U.S. attacks on Muslims, the more they hate their own rulers for doing nothing about it.
<<We naturally have a lot of reluctance to carpet bomb their bases and homes , the undesired colateral damage would be atrocious.>>
Was that supposed to be my Laugh of the Week? Thanks, it's hilarious.
<<In Vietnam we decided to loose rather than escalate one more time >>
ROTFLMFAO - - why I never realized the true extent of your benevolence. I guess you must have learned from Adolf Hitler, who chose to lose WWII rather than see Europe continue to suffer.
<< . . . in WWII itself we didn't hold back any strenth of any form but blasted city centers in Europe and in Japan.>>
Yes but then in Viet Nam you went soft - - dropping more tonnage on them than in all of WWII. Uhh, what is your point? I hope it's not to show how "humanitarian" you were in Vietnam. When you are responsible for the deaths of 2 million people in a war of pointless aggression launched, like the Iraq War, on a barefaced lie, trying to convince anyone of how "humanitarian" your actions were is - - well, let's just say it's verging on the obscene.
<<Osama Bin Laden is certainly no student of history , he is assureing his people that the way to treat Americans is to frighten them and use up their patience, does he hope to frighten us as much as the Jappaneese did in 42? >>
Uh, no, as I tried to explain above, his aim is to get you to react against Muslims, killing, torturing and raping them, to ignite an anti-American shit-storm in your puppet states of the Middle East that will cause the people to rise up agains their corrupt pro-American leaders and toss them into the dustbin of history.
<<The Vietnameese were smarter than this and in a war that spanned seven years for us and fifteen for them they never even tried to attack us on our homeland , their resorces were equal to such a mission I am certain . . . >>
Why are you so certain? The fact that they had fought successively against the French and Japs before you, also without attacking their homelands, should have indicated to anyone with even half of a functioning brain that they were fighting for what they said they were fighting for, i.e., the liberation of their homeland from foreign powers. Did the U.S. invade England during the Revolutionary War? Did the Indonesian freedom fighters try to blow up Holland? Did the Mau Mau try to blow up London Bridge?
The Vietnamese had very simple war goals - - Foreigners Out! and so they chose the tactic best suited to their goals. Al Qaeda had different goals - - Infidels out of the Middle East, but the infidels had the local Middle Eastern governments in their pockets. The tactic that al Qaeda chose was best suited to ITS goal - - infidels out of Muslim lands ruled by collaborationist governments.
<<what prevented this was a higher level of intelligence than Al Quieda can demonstrate.>>
What utter rubbish. The Vietnamese chose the tactic that best suited their goal and al Qaeda chose the tactic that best suited ITS goal.
<<Of course you know that the Vietnam war was an absolute fabrication that never really happened because the Vietnameese never did attack an American city>>
No, I think the Viet Nam war was real. The fiction was that the Vietnamese wanted to attack America.
<< WWII also was mostly ficticious because after a single real success the Japaneese never did get off a successfull attack on American territory.>>
No, I think WWII was real. I think most people understood the exact nature of the threat from Germany and Japan, and did not expect immediate attacks on U.S. soil except in the early days of the American entry into the war, when there was some panic on the West Coast.
