Russian Professor predicts end of the USA
Biological terror
In the real world, biological terrorism seems to fit the equation better than nuclear. The flaw with the nuclear theory is they violate the rationale behind war – the aquisition of terroritory. More us, less them.
Biological warfare is happening all the time, anyway. But the gross release of pathogens into the population to sow terror drives disconnection between the knowledge people have of each other, social dependencies can no longer be relied upon and so, they start to fail.
The aftermath of a biological attack may not however be containable. The act, once done, would contaminate the land. If the purpose of Al Qaeda is to destroy the land – then they are more insane than they may appear. What is the point? Why create enemies of America when it was America that armed them and provided funding for both the oil and heroin trades? If it was not for the Western philosophy of greed, there would be no money for the oil and the price would go down. To philosophically attack that greed is also without social merit.
It makes no logical sense that Al Qaeda wages war on America – but it continues to inspire small groups of terrorists (probably calling themselves something else like Jihadis or freedom fighters or even professional soldiers) to commit acts of war on civilians knowing they will die when confronted by Government forces. A group that is not a group that survives on chaos may not be all that logical.
The attacks in Mumbai, India were acts of military precision. What did they achieve apart from fear, death and excess cost, especially in tourism? The civilian protests at election fraud that delayed 300,000 international passengers may have been equally as poisonous to their tourist destination appeal, but people were not indiscrimately killed. Protest is really far more devastating that acts of terror.
Compare the cost in lives of young Muslim Al Qaeda followers – its probably far worse than the cost in Western lives from acts of terrorism. The sick calculation would be mutiplied by indulgence and fail as an act based upon “faith”. Biological terror may seem attractive to those wanting havoc but its even less controllable than nuclear damage, ultimately it merely defeats everyone including what they worship.
Or once GW Bush is out of the White House, perhaps such ideas will no longer float.
