Terror in the US
Spoons discusses potential suicide attacks in the US. The question I have really is Why haven’t they occurred yet? Are they regrouping, in need of funds, or waiting on us to become complacent? Beats me.
No amount of confiscating toenail clippers will stop these attacks.
Update: I addressed why not yet a while back:
But Al Qaeda has not engaged in small attacks on US soil. It would not be difficult for a terrorist nut job to waltz into a Wal-Mart with an AK47 and a bomb strapped to his chest. Kill a few people and detonate the bomb when the cops arrive. If that occurred, people wouldn’t shop at Wal-Mart for months. It’d hurt us. I tend to think Al Qaeda will not engage in this type of thing since their MO seems to be doing something bigger than the last one.
That is specific to Al Qaeda. I wonder why the other, smaller terrorist groups haven’t tried small-scale stuff?
May 21st, 2004 at 10:40 am
The main reason it doesn’t happen here is cultural. Suicide bombing or kamakazi is an odd thing that can only happen with an extremely strong cultural influence. You have to be convinced of the rightness of your action. You have to be assured you’ll be regarded as a hero. And it certainly helps if you’re desparately poor and you’re being promised that your family will receive a large bounty on your death.
There’s no cult-like worship of suicide bombers in the U.S. Little kids aren’t brought up thinking that the highest attainment of their culture is to be a suicide bomber. Visit LittleGreenFootballs to see the bizarro world of Palestinian culture that makes suicide bombing possible.
May 21st, 2004 at 10:58 am
That is specific to Al Qaeda. I wonder why the other, smaller terrorist groups haven’t tried small-scale stuff?
God?
May 21st, 2004 at 1:26 am
economics of madness
This started off as a comment on a post over at Say Uncle that just got out of hand. He asks “I wonder why the other, smaller terrorist groups haven’t tried small-scale stuff?”, referring to a post asking the same…