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Well, any of your assessments could prove to be the case.

I tend to favor another thesis, and perhaps it's wishful thinking/bravado on my part, I don't know.

I've posted this thought before, but I can't shake it: I wonder if the upper escelons of terrorist groups are looking at what's happened over the last couple of years and are asking themselves if provoking the US is really going to help them acheive their goals.

9/11 has spurred the US to take some pretty dramatic action. Imagine what the response might be to the detonation of a dirty bomb in a large American city, or the release of a nasty bio or chemical agent. I don't think I'd want myself, my family or my friends on the reciving end of the shitstorm that would be the US answer.

Just a thought. I know many of you don't buy it.

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