12June06

Excellent comments on AQ's current strategy from a well-connected f riend:

"I am uncomfortable with the term of 'terror incident, =99 because of its implication. My discomfort arises chiefly from the individuals who are invol ved, not the political costume in which they currently choose to display themselves, in a decrepit attempt to posture legitimacy.

In the 60s and 70s, we had Black Panthers. Their membership was a collectio n of bestial thugs, who had scant interest in any species of conventional politics. They vainly tried to promote the pretense of political motivation , but it largely failed, except among small groups of naive lightweights. What A Q has now brought to the table is the concept of organizing and training brutal, criminal gangs with nationwide reach, once more with cruel savagery as their hallmark, thinly veiled with a political coating.

The inescapable conclusion is that Americans in America may well escape the

kinds AQ incidents we hear about overseas. When we face AQ, it will be in the form of local thugs, recruited to victimize local Americans. As you ha ve said repeatedly, 'We will be on our own!' Police will be qu ickly overwhelmed and/or sit outside the parameter. Those inside the parameter will be compelled to do or die. The naively unprepared, unequipped, and incompeten t will make useful victims, as always!"

Comment: Much of the rest of the world sees America as a tottering, rotting-from-the-inside, depraved, "has-been" civilization, on the brink of collapse. They smell weakness and vulnerability, and they want sincerely t o rush in, push us aside, and claim the spoils. This is nothing new in the course of world history. In this world, civilizations come and go!

However, conventional invasions may be giving way to "internal inva sions." When AQ can merely recruit local no-goods to do their dirty work, they may see this as the best way to go. They know, as we do, that the American criminal justice system is chronically unable to effectively dissuade viole nt criminals. They may well have persuaded themselves that they have only to "Kick in the door, and the whole, rotten structure will come tumbling down, =9D to quote Hitler.

/John