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**HedgeYourBets** · 10-01-2006, 07:00 AM

In terms of effect though, therefore what? If whoever it was intended to nudge someone's internal or external policies or tip an election it seems that this bombings and other attacks recently have the opposite effect or have no effect.

As a strategic tool, al Qaeda seems to have lost the edge. Strategic terrorism helped change the Spanish government, has put some pressure on non US participation in Iraq. But on the whole - - their War Against the World has shifted to the War Against Whoever We Can Kill Today. A strategic failure unless and until some nominally secular arab state falls to extremist fundamentalism.

10-01-2006, 07:00 AM	#5
HedgeYourBets Join Date Aug 2008 Posts 4,655 Senior Member	In terms of effect though, therefore what? If whoever it was intended to nudge someone's internal or external policies or tip an election it seems that this bombings and other attacks recently have the opposite effect or have no effect. As a strategic tool, al Qaeda seems to have lost the edge. Strategic terrorism helped change the Spanish government, has put some pressure on non US participation in Iraq. But on the whole - - their War Against the World has shifted to the War Against Whoever We Can Kill Today. A strategic failure unless and until some nominally secular arab state falls to extremist fundamentalism.
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