No, I don’t expect Leftists to begin trying to blow up airplanes or skyscrapers–well, maybe smaller buildings and businesses–but I have been thinking about the strategy behind the leftist low-level terrorism campaign against conservatives, and there may be a similarity between al Qaeda’s strategy to defeat the West and Leftists’.
In this case, I am not talking about the institutional technocratic left–they are capturing our domestic and transnational institutions to put maximum power into their own hands. They want the economic, technological, and cultural power in their own hands and certainly want to encourage sybaritic behavior to keep us all focused on material and physical pleasure.
In this case, I am speaking of the anarcho-decolonizing left, which often allies with but ultimately wants to destroy the transnational elite, who would be the first up against the wall were these fanatics to succeed. (Hint: they won’t. Such movements always collapse due to power struggles).
It is now well understood that al Qaeda wanted to draw the United States and hopefully other Western powers into an armed conflict in the Middle East, provoking a face-to-face armed struggle that they (wrongly) believed they could win or, at minimum, weaken the US and create maximum havoc.
Osama and al Qaeda believed that they had History and God on their side, and if they struck the US hard and provoked a war on their own soil, where they had advantages, instead of here in the US, they could prevail. The terrorism was a lure, not the point in itself. […]
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