[Vision2020] Infiltration by Paul Sperry

[Andreas Schou]

On 2/12/06, mekt7 at netscape.net <mekt7 at netscape.net> wrote:
>
> I know that this will sound harsh and some will take it as insulting,
> but the Jihadists are just as dangerous as the Nazis were. The people
> who dismiss this threat are no different than those who dismissed the
> Nazis back in the thirties.

I'm not insulted, I'm baffled. The Nazis had control of one of the
most technologically advanced industrial states of the middle of the
20th century, along with the operational infrastructure to deploy
anywhere in Europe. They managed to kill a few tens of millions of
people and started the largest war in history.

al-Qaida has a hole in the ground in Afghanistan and some honey farms
in Yemen. They are having difficulty holding onto either. During the
height of their power, they managed to kill a few thousand people, do
damage to (but not sink) a US warship, and blow up several US
embassies to inconsequential nations. Since then, the amount of damage
they've done has been in the low dozens. All told, over the past
fifteen years, terrorists have been less deadly to American citizens
than bee stings and lightning.

Currently, al-Qaida doesn't have the capacity to conquer another
country -- an important benchmark on the dangerousness scale. It's
questionable whether they even have the operational capacity to attack
the United States or to seriously damage the world economy. To say
they're as dangerous as the Nazis is idiotic hysteria at best and
insulting to the victims of the real Nazis at worst.

-- ACS