please tell me how you can predict the future of the world. I'm dying to know.
I say that if I release an object in the air, it will fall. I just predicted the future there.
Anyway, as for my trains of reasoning on this issue, the average Iraqi man basically does not care a whole lot about politics and will go with whoever gives him and his family more money/food/etc. (this is how terrorist groups gain recruits; "die for us and your family will get x amount of money" ), and the Iraqi population has been for the most part suffering for the last decade under Hussein's policies and UN sanctions, so it will be rather easy for the US to get popular support especially with all those reconstruction plans. The US has a pretty good propaganda system and they can easily use it in Iraq to good effect. The surrounding Arab nations will of course turn more anti-US, but Iraq itself will probably become more pro-US, just like Afghanistan.
iraq changed over to euro in means of trading oil. would be a major blow for the us if more countries followed. for europe however, that'd be a good thing. that is the frigging reason why europe is "making such a fuss".
One of multiple reasons. There are the corporate oil interests, but also more importantly, the long-term international objectives that I talked of earlier.
But an extended series of terrorist strikes can do just that. It doesn't matter if it takes a week or a year to turn a city to rubble; in the end, it's still ash, and all the better if the enemy is thrown into a constant state of paranoia and disorder by the fact that they can never tell where or when the next hit's coming.
Still going to be somewhat hard to blow up every building in a city individually; you would need either some ten thousand strikes or a WMD, and there would be no way to wrest control of the place from the enemy or prevent them from rebuilding. And that is only one city. As for the popular reaction, it is just a matter of getting used to it really; for example, in Israel, these suicide bombings happen quite often, so the common people have gradually gotten used to it a part of life. The American public was shaken up by 9/11 because they had never been attacked before, but if the same thing happens again, there will be a somewhat different reaction; each subsequent terror attack is less effective at inciting fear than the one before it, especially if they are carried out with little gap between them, but they need to be carried out in quick succession or they will have no real lasting effect.
Naturally, it's useless for occupations and you've got another problem when it comes time to replace the government, but the "after" period of the conflict is of secondary interest to the parties using such tactics right now. At the moment, they've got a strategy that is damn near impossible to foil reliably (say 70% of the time), and cheap enough that you can always get enough through even the tightest security- it's a tactic that could eliminate their immediate problems, and as for the future... well, it's enough that they've got a slight chance to win a war against infinitely superior forces, I think worrying about the flaws in it (when a rebuilding and replacement government is even a concern, which it isn't really when we're talking about groups like Hamas and al Qaeda- they just want the US and Israel out of their hair) would be highly counterproductive.
That's quite true - it is indeed cheap and reliable - but like I said earlier, there are not really great rewards for pulling it off either. Even the suicide squads are not going to provide them with much of a chance in kicking out the US and Israel completely; like I said earlier, they will be a nuisance and occupy some time/resources, but that's about it.
Meh, the mass bombings are so going to cause trouble and stir up anti-american movements.
um, you should be happy about that, right? That's exactly what the EU wants, you know.
Its just sick to bomb a city with 3000 bombs. Haven't you seen the footage? They've aired it here... The big ass explosions don't seem very nice for the surrounding area.
It is even more sick to sit on chairs.
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