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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (150651)11/2/2004 4:34:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
That's a pretty big "funnel" (using sales-speak here) from which to recruit new terrorists, most of whom will have at least some anger towards the US regardless of how they felt about Saddam. Even if only one quarter to one half of these people feel real anger or hate, its more than enough.

Enough for what? Enough to lay bombs in the marketplace to kill 20 Iraqis in the hope of killing one American? or enough to commit suicide in a frontal assault on the US Marines?

Arabs aren't robots with one result for any input. Consequences also matter. It is very hard, I admit, to deal with a people who seem to be running mainly on wounded pride and humiliation. For example, do you have the least idea how many French civilians the Allies killed in 1944? Yet for some reason, the anger was not funnelled towards the Allies in that case.
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