Terrorists and Their GOP Enablers Who Terrorize Us

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Submitted by mark karlin on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 8:51am.


BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

BY MARK KARLIN

As usual, the corporate mainstream media can't see the forest through the trees when it comes to terrorism.

The purpose of terrorism is to create fear and terror that demoralizes and immobilizes a people. In the case of the near terrorist destruction of a Detroit bound flight, they have once again, largely thanks to the Republicans, succeeded. The GOP is the best enabler Al Qaeda has because it ratchets up the fear to such an extent that the terrorists succeed.

After all, Al Qaeda or its offshoots can't conquer America. This is not WW II when the very governance of Western nations was at stake.

Terrorism has been with us throughout history. It is most often used for a limited goal: the defeat of an occupying army. Think of Algeria for such an example. The French, after chronic terrorist attacks (with only limited success at suppressing them), granted Algeria independence -- and the attacks against the French ceased (which took place primarily in the French section of Algiers).

The Islamic Fundamentalist attacks against the U.S. (and let's not forget Britain and Spain before it pulled its troops out of the "coalition") come from diverse factions of a loosely connected terrorist movement. The goals of this movement range from forcing the West to leave Islamic nations, to then having fundamentalist guerillas overthow Western aligned Muslim governments, to just terrorizing the U.S. because it is evil in the eyes of some radical mullahs.