It becomes more and more clear for anybody with the slightest bit of common sense. The terrorist have won.
I do not mean Al Qaeda and the likes. Yes, they have a high succes rate. OK, let’s take this one step at the time:
1. Al Qaeda does not exist, that is, more accurately, “it did not exist”. There never was an Al Qaeda. It’s existence was a figment of imagination of the American “intelligence” (and I use this word lightly) organisations. The point is, they did not have a clue at all about the Middle East political, social and, least of all, underground landscape. So when suddenly these “evil-do-ers” had to be identified they referred to an old collaboration network they new about. As it is always the case when you don’t know something you try to link it to a known subject.
2. However, once this organisation had a name it also gained a public identity. Sometimes wildly inaccurately applied to whomever lived in the same region, wore the same clothes or whatever. But an identity it was. Not only that but news, governments and public began to refer to like minded organisations as belonging to this same identity. As a result the activists who noticed their organisatin was now semi-officially part of Al-Quada started to use this as a form of leverage.
3. Next thing you know there is a Moroccon Al-Quada, an Egyptian Al-Quada, an Indonesian Al-Quada. All coming from different backgrounds and in reality very likely not linked at all but in name. They use the leverage of the terror the idea of an Al-Quada holds to highlight their own actions.
4. AND THEY HAVE SUCCESS !!! Yes, even if the do not manage to blow up anything at all! They just need to send out a message that xyz Al-Quada is going to “eradicate all infidels from the face of the earth” and suddenly everybody goes into a frenzy. Terror alert levels rise, armed guards all over the place, people being detained for no reason other than a wrong color, name or friend.
5. And it is not only in one country! It’s all over the world. Leaders must be drooling over the unimpeded breaches of privacy and civil rights they can pull of all in the name of the war on terror. In Brussels the fireworks for New Year were canceled due to a terror alert. An official interviewed to question why this alert was suddenly put in place and why this cancellation replied: “it is so severe this threat, we even had to cancel the fireworks because of it!”. This is a circular reasoning and the guy got away with it.
6. And of course living in a country where there is a daily threat of bombings, requires you to lock down the country and rob anyone of his civil rights. Not! Just look at the way the UK managed in the past the IRA threats and how people reacted and responded to it. The same with Spain and the ETA. Turkey and the PKK. People even never stopped having their holidays there due to terror alerts.
Now imagine yourself for a moment to be a terrorist (whether you really blow up stuff or not, the main goal of a terrorist is to sow terror and fear). You want these evil western world guys to fear and faint. Just issue a message, now even quickly done online, telling you will be using Campbell’s (or other) tomato soup cans filled with Anthrax (not the band) and distribute them in all supermarkets worldwide. Next thing you know there is a worldwide ban on tomato soup. Now who won?
