9/11, 3/11, and Rewarding Terrorists

[richardf8]

Let's say your name is Osama Bin Laden. Your objective? A unified Arab world under Sharia Law and free of Jewish or Christian taint. You have a vast terrorist network at your disposal. Nothing organized enough to effect a coup, but certainly organized enough to execute a few operations that will piss people off and make them behave irrationally

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[lordrunningclam]

The problem with the Spanish situation, aside from the horror, pain, suffering and waste of human life, is that now we'll never know what would have happened had the train bombings not happened. I read somewhere that anti-war sentiment in Spain was running something like 80%, which says to me that the conservatives would likely have been voted out anyway. I would note that my personal sense is that a similar event in the US would likely have the opposite effect