Is AL-QAEDA on the ropes?
May 19, 2003 8:55 AM   Subscribe

L.T. SMASH Are the recent Al-Qaeda attacks the last gasp desperation pass of a now irrelevant terrorist group? A soldier stationed near the Iraqi border thinks so, and his argument is interesting. "So, are we to assume that last week's attacks were part of this long anticipated “Wave of Terror?” A bunch of armed thugs gunned down a few rent-a-cops at the guard shacks of three gated compunds, then set off car bombs inside. The thugs were Arabs, operating on their home turf in Riyadh. Nine nincompoops blew themselves up, in order to kill eight American expatriates, seven Saudis, and a handful of other foreign workers. I’m not impressed. One of the principles of asymmetric warfare is to exploit the enemy’s weak points in order to attack high-value targets while expending a minimum of your own resources. So these criminals managed to find a weakness—but despite the very real tragedy of these deaths, it wasn’t a high value target, and they wasted quite a bit of their own resources to carry out the attack. Stupid. In Casablanca, they blew up a Spanish restaurant, a Jewish community center, and the Belgian Consulate. What’s the message, here? They hate Spaniards, Jews, and Belgians? Why not go after the American Embassy? Too difficult, maybe?" Is Al-Qaeda grasping at straws?
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How can you take the guy seriously when he named himself from a Simpsons episode?

Personally, I prefer Ralph Wiggum's political insights...
posted by InfidelZombie at 9:02 AM on May 19, 2003


It wasn't even that good of a Simpsons episode...
posted by stifford at 9:10 AM on May 19, 2003


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