[FearGodNotMen]

I say every time they strike us, we take down a new terrorist nation. No nation-building, no improving public works, etc. We just take out the terrorist government, destroy their military, steal all their inelligence, appoint the best people we can to form a new government, and split. If they hit us again, a new terrorist-supporting government is selected and taken down, and so on down the line.

[concerned about politics]

In an exclusive interview with NewsMax, Bodansky starkly concluded that the U.S. is losing its war on terrorism. In fact, since Sept. 11, he estimates, “the cadres of terror groups have actually tripled since mid-September 2001, and the active support echelons have grown ten-fold.”

It's just like Kerry and Nam. The left is giving them hope, so they fight on.

[edpc]

There is ample evidence from impeccable sources that the Islamist-Jihadist forces are adamant on striking out before the U.S. elections. Some of the warnings specify a commitment to inflicting mass casualties on an unprecedented scale – perhaps through the use of a nuclear suitcase-bomb (which they definitely have).

This is total BS. If they had a "suitcase nuke", they would have used it by now, either against our troops, or in a large city.

[MNJohnnie]

Bodansky: Terrorists Seek ‘Mass Casualties on an Unprecedented Scale’ (says were losing)
Newsmax ^ | Oct. 5, 2004 | Dave Eberhar


Of course he does. Do you think he would get any attention in the "news media" if he came out and said "We are kicking butt in the war". Of course he has to be hyperhyseric and negative. No one would pay any attention to him otherwise.

[JSteff]

"Already, he says, there is talk among Islamic terror groups of an attack on the U.S. homeland yielding “mass casualties on an unprecedented scale"

Yeah and in the Tokyo officers and enlisted clubs they heard the same thing. The only one there that was right though was Yamamoto. Remember?

The terrorists are learning not to "wake the lazy sleeping giant. You will just fill him with a terrible resolve."

Or something close to that.. but they haven't even fully woken us yet. We can be fair but when we are united and pi$$ed no one has taken us yet. They don't even want to go there.

[kimosabe31]

bump

[pawdoggie]

Mr. Bodansky may be a "terrorism expert", but he's also peddling a book, and is therefore inclined to use sensationalism and "loaded" phrases ("losing the war on Terror). If one were go back to November 1942, one would find that while there was a grim determination to persevere in the Allied camp, no one "knew" to within a moral certainty that we were "winning" or "losing". Yet historical factors were already in motion that would make our victory "inevitable". The fact is that we have only just begun to fight the War on Terror, and that some dark days and difficult decisions lay ahead before we develop the sense of urgency, the ruthlessness (yes, ruthlessness) and the true will to win that it will take to keep terrorism away from our shores.

[Poohbah]

Bodanksy was the first expert to significantly warn the West about Osama bin Laden in his 1999 best seller, “Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America.”

He was probably not the first "expert" to make stuff up (faced with a shortage of material about Osama's teenage years, he simply faked it).

And he's been caught doing that before--back in the 1980s, he came up with a doozy of a story for Jane's Defense Weekly, claiming that "female Spetsnaz troops" had infiltrated the anti-nuclear dingbats protesting outside the US cruise missile base at Greenham Common.

[vaudine]

If intelligence is so bad, on what does Mr. Bodansky base his doom and gloom predictions?

vaudine

[Wallaby]

More Bodansky:

• Jihadists Anticipate Imminent Nuclear Strike Against U.S.