(September 15, 2014 at 9:20 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: There are two possibilities I can think of:
1. OBL wanted to provoke America into a protracted war in Afghanistan, hoping to break America the same way they broke the Soviet Union. It worked even better than he could have hoped, with Bush attacking Iraq, a nation that was actually opposed to Al Qaida.
ISIS may be hoping for the same thing, that if we get into a protracted war with them, they can bleed us through guerrilla tactics.
2. They may be convinced of their own religion, that Allah will lead them to victory. These are fanatics, after all.
Most members might be brainwashed fanatics, but the leaders don't seem like simple dumb fanatics, so I think there is a different agenda behind this. Maybe it is as you said, a way to break America, or it may be something else. But I do believe that this is not just a specific countries problem rather a global effort needs to be made against this ridiculousness.
There are many other places where this sort of savagery has been going on for years, like let's say Congo for example. And we keep ignoring them cause they perhaps don't effect us directly.
