We Can't Beat Radical Islam By Killing Them.
Feb 19, 2015 9:50:39 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2015 9:50:39 GMT -6
I'm glad you chimed in..because it is the thinking you were a part of that annoys me SO much. Don't get me wrong..it is perfectly logical thinking and planning. It makes perfect sense...to minds totally different in outlook from those we fight. It is also, again, historically? Perfectly wrong. (examples to prove otherwise..seem distinctly lacking, despite opportunity never really lacking)
I agree that each date has meaning and each date would be perfect for a hit......and each date has been very deliberately ignored since 1968, when modern terrorism came into being for the form we know and hate it today. In thinking back....and perhaps this is an example of Western minds being so different...I can't recall the terrorists exploiting those dates for the obvious reasons we'd anticipate it. The fact we DO anticipate it could be all the reason they need to avoid them, actually.
Now those dates make outstanding 'scare the hell out of people' days to harp on...and they do. Every year, on these days, it seems. However, when was the last time a Christmas season actually SAW an attack, anywhere, for that matter? The Rome airport attack Reagan nearly killed Qadaffi over? Did Lockerbie go down during the Christmas season...or was that just secondary timing to opportunity? When have the Jihadis made use of Easter?
We have TET in 1968 for Holidays and lethal surprises, but that wasn't about the Holiday and Vietnamese New Year as much as pure strategic exploitation of a stupid stand down by American forces for the Holiday, eh? That was also a 'standing army', not a terrorist group.
We have Passover and Yom Kippur but I think we can all agree the "Israel issue" is a matter that stands in a category all its own. They blew up pizza parlors like a sporting event to kill innocents there too....and we wouldn't be suggesting that is a real norm, world wide.
So, aside from the planners planning because it wouldn't be logical not to plan that way .....is there actual historic and tactical basis to expect holidays will be targeted as a special thing?
I agree that each date has meaning and each date would be perfect for a hit......and each date has been very deliberately ignored since 1968, when modern terrorism came into being for the form we know and hate it today. In thinking back....and perhaps this is an example of Western minds being so different...I can't recall the terrorists exploiting those dates for the obvious reasons we'd anticipate it. The fact we DO anticipate it could be all the reason they need to avoid them, actually.
Now those dates make outstanding 'scare the hell out of people' days to harp on...and they do. Every year, on these days, it seems. However, when was the last time a Christmas season actually SAW an attack, anywhere, for that matter? The Rome airport attack Reagan nearly killed Qadaffi over? Did Lockerbie go down during the Christmas season...or was that just secondary timing to opportunity? When have the Jihadis made use of Easter?
We have TET in 1968 for Holidays and lethal surprises, but that wasn't about the Holiday and Vietnamese New Year as much as pure strategic exploitation of a stupid stand down by American forces for the Holiday, eh? That was also a 'standing army', not a terrorist group.
We have Passover and Yom Kippur but I think we can all agree the "Israel issue" is a matter that stands in a category all its own. They blew up pizza parlors like a sporting event to kill innocents there too....and we wouldn't be suggesting that is a real norm, world wide.
So, aside from the planners planning because it wouldn't be logical not to plan that way .....is there actual historic and tactical basis to expect holidays will be targeted as a special thing?