What are they thinking?
I find that the best way to understand people, particularly enemies is
to examine their motivations. The
reasons for their actions often have little in common with their claimed
motivation. I see that the muslim
terrorists have just murdered another person on video for the entertainment of
the world. They committed this crime in
as hideous a manner as they could manage, and of course they kept their faces
covered in hopes of avoiding prosecution
I would assume.
Everyone I
know is outraged by this heinous crime, but I can't see how that would be their
aim in committing it. How would this
benefit them in any way? I feel pretty
sure that the entire civilized world shares this outrage so the only people who
they could be playing to is the middle east.
At least it appears that way to me.
To look at
this crime in context we have to consider the area situation at the time. The US is trying to remove its presence from
the area as quickly as possible. Crimes
like this as well as attacks on other peaceful communities in the area make it
very difficult politically for the Obama administration to carry through with
it's plan to remove American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Applying Mr. Occam's logic it must be that the
terrorists don't want the US to leave the area.
Hmmm, who
is profiting from the US maintaining a presence in the middle east? A famous saying goes something like;
"Follow the money". (Or is
that "cherchez la femme? ) The
former seems more applicable. It would
appear to me that the groups that actually benefit from continued American
presents are the arms suppliers and the private security organizations that supply
mercenaries in the middle east. Of
course you could also make a case for the Republicans trying to keep up the
involvement to make Obama and company look bad.
Or you could make a case for the Democrats being behind it to provide an
excuse for staying in the middle east.
The problem with either of those last two scenarios is that I don't
think either party wants to stay in the middle east. It just occurred to me that I missed an obvious group - the press. It is the press who appears to profit the most from the continued unrest.
So what is
the aim of the terrorists? Clearly they
don't want the US to leave the area, but what do they gain by that? I really don't know - do you?
