[Vision2020] Infiltration by Paul Sperry

[Matt Decker]

Andreas,

Just food for thought; The Jihadists that the other person mentioned is not 
always Al Qaida, at least thats my take on it. Gotta go

matt


>From: Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com>
>To: "mekt7 at netscape.net" <mekt7 at netscape.net>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Infiltration by Paul Sperry
>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:12:22 -0800
>
>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
>
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