Al-Qaida will do whatever it takes to assure Bush is re-elected: Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
Dyer doesn't seem to believe that Al-Qaida's help to Bush for re-election is out of love, but it is because of the fact that Bush policies have been the best tools in Al-Qaida's hands to recruit more and more people. He, in fact warns that a not-so-large-scale attack in the US just prior to the elections can boost George Bush's bid for re-election in case if the numbers do not seem promising for Bush camp:
"...U.S. troops are now the unwelcome military rulers of more than 50 million Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, and people there and elsewhere are turning to the Islamist radicals as the only force in the Muslim world that is willing and able to defy American power."
"It is astonishing how little this is understood in the United States. I know of no American analyst who has even made the obvious point that al-Qaida wants Bush to win next November's presidential election and continue his interventionist policies in the Middle East for another four years, and will act to save Bush from defeat if necessary.
It probably would not do so unless Bush's number were slipping badly, for any terrorist attack on U.S. soil carries the risk of stimulating resentment against the current administration for failing to prevent it.
Certainly another attack on the scale of 9-11 would risk producing that result, even if al-Qaida had the resources for it. But a simple truck bomb in some U.S. city center a few months before the election, killing just a couple of dozen Americans, could drive voters back into Bush's arms and turn a tight election around. Al-Qaida is clever enough for that."
Read the entire article here.
Dyer doesn't seem to believe that Al-Qaida's help to Bush for re-election is out of love, but it is because of the fact that Bush policies have been the best tools in Al-Qaida's hands to recruit more and more people. He, in fact warns that a not-so-large-scale attack in the US just prior to the elections can boost George Bush's bid for re-election in case if the numbers do not seem promising for Bush camp:
"...U.S. troops are now the unwelcome military rulers of more than 50 million Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, and people there and elsewhere are turning to the Islamist radicals as the only force in the Muslim world that is willing and able to defy American power."
"It is astonishing how little this is understood in the United States. I know of no American analyst who has even made the obvious point that al-Qaida wants Bush to win next November's presidential election and continue his interventionist policies in the Middle East for another four years, and will act to save Bush from defeat if necessary.
It probably would not do so unless Bush's number were slipping badly, for any terrorist attack on U.S. soil carries the risk of stimulating resentment against the current administration for failing to prevent it.
Certainly another attack on the scale of 9-11 would risk producing that result, even if al-Qaida had the resources for it. But a simple truck bomb in some U.S. city center a few months before the election, killing just a couple of dozen Americans, could drive voters back into Bush's arms and turn a tight election around. Al-Qaida is clever enough for that."
Read the entire article here.
posted by Faramin | 12:18 a.m.
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