The Terrorists Have Mail
By Miguel Guanipa (10/24/06)
Congressional elections are not often cause for a great deal of stress to the average American citizen. But this election season voters seem to be personally involved to a higher level than in past elections. One of the reasons for this greater degree of involvement is that the world has become increasingly smaller and the stakes have become much more significant than in years past.
To the extent that the world has considerably shrunk in size, we are all well aware – as implied by the President in a recent weekly radio address - of the motivations behind concerted attacks by terrorists in Iraq, not the least of which has been proffered through their own initiative to counsel us in the past as to what direction our country should take pending the election of our own commander in chief. Conversely, terrorists are well aware of the potential for their planned attacks to indirectly steer this country’s political climate in their favor.
It is also true that open disclosure benefits in our free society presently afford a greater information gathering advantage to the insurgents. It is worth mentioning that during World War II the Japanese would go to great lengths to try to intercept and decode intelligence using a variety of spying methods in order to mount a defensive or offensive campaign against the Americans. Today, insurgents in Iraq can acquire similar information by merely waiting for almost any major media outlet in this country to post the latest leak of classified intelligence on their website.
One would have to be very naĂŻve to deny that the internet savvy insurgents in the Middle East are not keenly aware of the critical repercussions for their movement inherent in the results of the political process of this country. In fact one could argue that many in the insurgency follow current events in American politics in a manner that would put the typically lethargic voter in this country to shame.
Terrorists have also seized this medium as a primary front to wage their ideological war, which betrays a silent admission of their inability to win through military means, and thus will concentrate their efforts in eroding the ability of increasingly wearied Americans to psychologically withstand the carnage that is part of their signature strategy and hopefully break the will of a country once referred to by Osama bin Laden as a “paper tiger”.
No doubt to the terrorist’s glee, the media reports with careless abandon that a majority of Americans are irrevocably disgruntled with the present Republican leadership and will throw caution to the wind this time around by voting for a democratic majority in November, in spite of the fact that Democrats have consistently shown by their own voting record how dreadfully impaired they are when it comes to the issue of national security, which by all indications, would appear to be the decisive issue in this election.
If, as some fear, these allegations are true, it would mean that most Americans either do not believe there is a clear and present danger, they do not care about the very real threat to their own security, or they actually trust the Democrats to be more apt to meet the demands imposed at this pivotal moment in history. In all three categories one could logically surmise that those who end up casting a vote for the Democrats in November are either ideologically in league with the insurgents in Iraq or already possess an appallingly skewed version of reality.
On the other hand, it may just all be a classic smokes and mirrors strategy on the part of the coalition of the willing, meaning the Democrats and the overwhelmingly progressive leaning mainstream media; which makes one wonder how any sensible person could not help but be slightly suspicious about their validity.
In any event, we are sure to find out whether or not such is the case on November 8th.
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