I said ballsy, not all of the sudden. I believe it was always there but kept its activities under wraps. Now it does not have to do so. You give these folks way too much credit CCIP. Yes, my belief is
Occam's razor, untilI see facts that prove otherwise. Perfect conditions for a backdraft fire so to speak.
Yes, I do believe our ability to reach out and touch someone is a great deterrent. You will argue that there are no statistics to back up my claim, but no one has come up with a way to measure deterrence. I assume when you said domestic policy, you actually meant foreign. Obama ordering drone attacks against 'leaders' of AQ does not do much in the long run because cellular organizations can still operate even when parts of it cease to function, that is why they are set up that way. Dog and pony show to show that this administration is actively combating terrorism. I am not sure what an average Arab thinks, yet if Israel is such a non-factor, why the anti-Israeli rhetoric:
" In March 2003, 12-year-old Hoda Darwish was sitting at her desk in a UN elementary school in Khan Younis on the Gaza Strip
when an Israeli high-velocity bullet was fired through her classroom window. It hit Hoda in the head. The doctors at the hospital said that she would never awaken from her coma."
From the biggest news source in the middle east. A bit of yellow there....
I am glad we can have this discourse, keeps the synapses firing.
@SailerSteve: an end a round is still a form of attack. Rather than attacking the messenger, attack the message. I would be more than happy to engage in a debate.