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Al Qaeda’s economic warfare.

Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by scott in economic daydreaming

The last few days have reminded Americans of the dangers we face from radical religious groups.  Right at the top is Al Qaeda whose Yemeni ‘branch’ is now claiming responsibility for the failed Christmas bombing of a Delta jet.

American security forces need to stop thinking of such radical groups as third-world ‘nut jobs’ out to make a statement.  Al Qaeda is clearly more sophisticated that they are given credit for and a lot more sophisticated than our present security measures allow for.  They don’t want to just kill people.  They want to bring us down and are smart enough to know that attempts like this latest one have the capacity to damage our society more than killing a plane load of people does.

Look at what happened with this latest incident.  Of course it would have been horrible if the crazy Nigerian had succeeded but the truth is his failing has caused more social/economic problems, simply because we now understand exactly what he was trying to do.  And we are running scared and unprepared.

He had a very powerful and sophisticated explosive that was sewn into his underpants.  Yep you read that right.  Doesn’t sound sophisticated but it surely is . . . he got through all checkpoints and security this way.

Beyond the technical issues of the ‘bomb’ itself — and thank heavens this chump was too dumb to set it off correctly despite his training — the broader social and economic issues have surely already met the goals of his handlers.

Airports and airlines have been forced to spend huge amounts of $$ and time in response to this new threat.  Our government, and others as well, have been in a tizzy about what to do.  There have been conferences, meetings, study groups, counter-terror analysis and such by the dozens.  The President has gotten involved himself and even held a press-conference today on the issue.

Economic and social impacts?

Airline stocks have taken a tumble.  And that is the least of the problems this botched bombing attempt has caused.  Oil stocks have risen since the attempt, security branches of many governments are working overtime, huge amounts of wasted time and money has been spent.  Governments have turned from the pressing recession issues to security.

There has been, and continues to be,  a very real economic impact to this one incident . . . and according to the satanic idiot who failed, he is one of many that have been sent out to accomplish the same thing.  That threat, real or not, is awful to contemplate and will require huge amounts of time and money to be wasted in the next few weeks or months.

All of this begs the more pressing issue of how do we start checking people’s underwear — I hated the shoe stuff at airports and I sure as heck am not going to let some TSA dude check out my nether regions!

Right now — Al Qaeda 1 — America and the free world 0.

We have got to believe these morons are smart and know what they are doing.  They are thinking like well-educated economists and sociologists.  They know how to cause panic, fear and hatred.

Start thinking like them TSA and Homeland security — they are smarter than the average guy that is for sure.  Fact is, I believe they wanted this latest idiot to be caught. Pretty smart suckers.

Come on President Obama, your time to shine is now here.  You might have avoided this latest incident by the skin of your teeth but Al Qaeda is still out there.  What are you going to do Mr. President?  We can’t let every crazy person who is willing to lose their life bring us to our knees every month or two — can we?

All I have for your current government is one last question:  If ‘they’ aren’t with us, then are ‘they’ against us?

You figure that out.

thanks to flickr’s saiosaio for the photo

Tags: al qaeda, bombing attempt, economic impact of bombing attempt, Homeland security, President Obama, TSA