What .. shock .. horror ?

Dont say it ..

Maybe we are actually ... winning?

However, eco-terrorism is on the rise...particularly as it affects public policies.

Don't forget the wall between the paliterrorists and the Israelis. That cut down the number of terrorist attacks as well.
Oh, wait. The UN doesn't consider that terrorism; it is the wall (fence, actually) and checkpoints that are the terrorism.

re: #2 yesandno

Eco - Akhbar !

The only terrorists to the UN and Democrats are "white" Americans and those that think like them. It is understood that capitalism, Democracy, the Middle Class, and pesky US Constitution are the font of all the world's problems.

They've only got to get lucky once.

/and they haven't given up plotting and planning

Well now, that puts a crimp in Barack Obama's schtick now, doesn't it?

/mixed metaphors, sorry

Dang, two new threads at once! What to choose, what to choose?!

The Leftists will spin the results no matter what. If there is an increase in terrorism, it "proves" that Bush's policies have been innefective and need to change. If terrorism has decreased, it "proves" that we no longer need to spend as much money on counter-terrorism and that we should withdraw from Iraq.

re: #5 pat

The only terrorists to the UN and Democrats are "white" Americans and those that think like them. It is understood that capitalism, Democracy, the Middle Class, and pesky US Constitution are the font of all the world's problems.

I blame Arial ... Times New Roman and that blasted Wingdings for this world corruption.

If only they wordprocessed in Helvetia and Comic Sans .. the world would be a safer place.

We they need someone in office that will turn the cheek.

re: #10 buster bunny

I blame Arial ... Times New Roman and that blasted Wingdings for this world corruption.

If only they wordprocessed in Helvetia and Comic Sans .. the world would be a safer place.

Isn't "Helvetia" the Swiss name for Switzerland?

I think the problems started when typewriters went from Pica to Elite.

/old, old stuff there

It's also a U.N. study, consider whose side they're on.

/we're definitely winning, but it's not mission accomplished yet, and no time to become complacent to the threat

Well ( The terrorists) they need someone in office that will turn the other cheek, so to speak. Bush is not like that.

re: #9 Globular Cluster

The Leftists will spin the results no matter what. If there is an increase in terrorism, it "proves" that Bush's policies have been innefective and need to change. If terrorism has decreased, it "proves" that we no longer need to spend as much money on counter-terrorism and that we should withdraw from Iraq.

Amen

Particularly about the "need to change"...sounds like an Obamanation!

Even if the Iraq ‘terrorism’ data are included, there has still been a substantial decline in the global terrorism toll

This is exactly what is to be expected, when we kill them.

Yep, and you won't hear it from the MSM. They are worse than Pravda was during the height of the Cold War in Russia. Phtttt.

Well, at least until the Obama Presidency.

But whatever, the Sears Tower is an eyesore anyway.

Well. Perhaps we have learned the lessons of the 1930s.

Let us not stumble now by electing Obama.

(Oh, and eat all you want)

Goodnight all.

Bush's fault.

Why are all these supposed "experts" so stupid? Global terrorism declined? Well, that might partly be due to the fact that the terrorists have now morphed into government officials, e.g., Gaza and Lebanon. The "terrorists" have also figured out that they can achieve their ends a little less violently through our legal systems or just by threatening violence. Or, they may be concentrating their efforts on one huge operation, like Iran hoping to nuke Israel.

They still have the same goal, however. Their means just adapted to changing conditions on the ground. But it's still jihad and they're still terrorists.

"so called surge"......Whenever this phase is used, I never understand what is being implied. .....Not a real surge? A neo-surge? Surge-lite? Maybe;... I-don't-like-it-but-I-can't-think-of-a-valid-way-t o-denigrate-it-surge? Anybody get this?

Bueller?

Dead terrorists cause no carnage.

I blame the United States.

But when are they going to address the root causes?

re: #8 Intrepid Hey Intrepid, as great as this thread is, the next one over is really GREAT! BUT you truly have to read the article by Mr. Cooper (in Charles' link) to really appreciate it all and, for me at least, that took some time.
But it was time well spent!

Hmmmmm. Government agencies whose funding and authority rely on the threat of terrorist attacks say that terrorism is increasing despite evidence to the contrary.

I say again, hmmmmmm.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Or, as terrorism and that "j" word have fallen into the basket marked "do not use under any circumstance", of course it has dropped, but that ties in with point 1

Or, its the calm before the storm.

re: #18 laxmatt1984 Sure hope you just forgot to put in a sarc tag there.

re: #29 realwest

oooh, yeah, I see what ya mean.

re: #21 Irene NYC Hey hi there Irene! You left out one point in why global terrorism MAY have declined: we have been killing terrorists/jihadists by the truckloads over in Iraq and Afghanistan and the worst news an Al-Q officer can hear these days is "You've been promoted to number three in Iraq!". LOL!

re: #30 A Kiwi Infidel I'm sure he simply forgot the sarc tag, but having watched, in person, the second World Trade Center tower to fall, I just kinda wanted to remind him, ya know?

Never. Never. EVER forget the left's capacity for self-delusion.
They will see what they want and will hear what they want.
If it conflicts with their world-view -- it don't exist.

To the left, the only terrorist is US/BushCo.
And US/BushCo is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cheney/Haliburton.
And Cheney/Haliburton owns a whole bunch of Caterpillar products, so they're obviously Zionist tools.
And you know how much control they have in the mass media, so that's obviously why Chris Matthews has become such a Reich-winger and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
It's way too easy to write like them.
*spit*
*cleansing breath*

I blame Bush for all of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. since 9/11!

Right, Barry? Right, Michelle?

This stuff gets circulated in the media just like "gun crime is worse than ever" when it is really going down.

Goebbels' Big Lie.

Off topic,

In case anybody thinks the cold war is over, might want to check into Pravda online every once in a while. The publication covers topics ranging all the way from America being the most evil place on earth to America being the most evil place in history. And yes, all the articles are about how America sucks.

Here's a fun fact from the country that brought you government created famine and mass starvation.

7 million people starved in America during the great depression.

Ignorance bordering on superstition. No wonder these people have been ruled by tyrants since time immemorial. A brief gasp of freedom after Cold War I, then right back into the clutches of Stalin 2.0, aka: Mr Putin.

Hopeless.

DEAD TERRORISTS DON'T TERRORIZE.

The decline in violent terrorism is no longer needed because most western nations have politically capitulated without a struggle.

1) this contradicts the conventional wisdom that our actions only "create more terrorists" and that's a great talking pt.
2) this will be spun as "we can leave Iraq now" and "rightwing" fearmongering is overstated"

*laughs evilly*

Our evil plan is working!

*crickets chirp*

.....oops.

Just kill the bad guys. Nothing succeeds like success.

Now let the Democrates argue with UN. Hehe ... this must pain them, unless MSM buries the issue, which they are most likely to do.

"There is no end to what you can accomplish as long as you don't care who gets the credit."
-Ronald Reagan

Bush's governing principle all along.

For example, global terrorism fatalities declined by 40 percent between July and September 2007, driven by a 55 percent decline in the “terrorism” death toll in Iraq after the so-called surge of new U.S. troops and a cease-fire by the Shi’ite militant Mehdi Army, the brief said.

Note that they credit the ceasefire individually, and do not link it to the fact that American troops forced Mookie's hand on it.

Unfortunately, a lot of this decline may be due to the fact that terrorism has been so effective, that now merely the threat of terrorism is sufficient to get governments to cave. Not to mention how effective terrorist groups and terror supporting governments have become at media manipulation (not that it takes much effort to manipulate the media if you're a Leftist, an Islamic terrorist, or an anti-American dictatorship or totalitarian government).

re: #18 laxmatt1984

Well, at least until the Obama Presidency.

But whatever, the Sears Tower is an eyesore anyway.

ding!

If sarc, poor taste.
If not sarc, alarming.

re: #46 jamsler

ding!

If sarc, poor taste.
If not sarc, alarming.

Oh, I'm pretty sure it is sarcasm. I've never been to New York, but I'd always heard that the WTC was not well liked by NYers, especially when it was initially being built. Heard that it was a scar on the skyline. Thus, he's backhandedly referring to another "ugly" building that will be a target should the Obama-rama get elected. Besides, I believe that it was in the original plans for 9/11 prior to being scaled back to just four planes. I'm late for work, so can't check.

But I don't doubt for a second that everybody who thought that they were ugly would love to see them standing today.

Well, maybe 'cept some moonbats and twoofers.

Oh no! That means we're winning.

The horror, the horror....

/sarc

Of course terror attacks and terror casualties are up in Israel thanks to, among other things, Hamas control of Gaza (stemming from American insistence that Hamas be allowed to participate in the 2006 elections), Israel's abandonment of the Philadelphi Corridor (again under American pressure), America's arming of Fatah (some of whose arsenal fell into the hands of Hamas, and other of whose arms are used to kill Israelis), and reduction of West Bank checkpoints (at the behest of, well, you-know-who).

"So called surge".
The MSM just can't say it can they.

“We have concluded that the expert consensus (on terrorism) is probably misleading bogus,” Andrew Mack, director of the Human Security Report Project, told a news conference.

Fixed!

JAFLW

re: #7 Intrepid

Well now, that puts a crimp in Barack Obama's schtick now, doesn't it?

/mixed metaphors, sorry

Oh, no, he's going to continue to pull the wool over the American Sheeple's heads clear up until Election Day.

With the help of the MSM, of course...

JAFLW

re: #47 DirtyDog

I'll concede that the Sears Tower isn't a particurlarly attractive building. But the implied reference to 9/11 elicited in me a mental image far uglier. Ask any New Yorker if they think the pile of smouldering rubble at ground zero looked more or less offensive that the twin towers did when they were standing. The idea of another pile of smouldering rubble where the "eyesore" Sears Tower stands is repellant to me and over the top as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure the implied message of the post was something along the line of: If Obama is elected then there might well be another catastrophe like 9/11. This I agree with. But I remember the twin towers, how they looked both before and after 9/11. Invoking the image of a similar fate befalling any building (even an ugly one) is, IMHO in poor taste, even if it supports a position I'm in agreement with.

Suck on that, Barry.

Isn't it a bit amazing how killing terrorists really does decrease terrorism?

It probably is a great deterrent when a house in Pakistan blows up from missiles launched from a Predator. (Gadahn + al-Libi)

Bystanders ask "what was that?" Answer: "Oh, that's where some Al Qaeda guys were staying."

Of course there will be a surge in terrorism now that Hezballah has taken over Lebanon...

But congress/house doesn't need to worry about that sort of thing when there's oil company executives to pillory... (and it's even funnier, in a sad tragic way, when the oil exec's point out that the dems have blocked everything that would actually lead to lower oil prices-but hey reality is as defined by dems right?)

The past two months have been exceptionally low --- I do a morning terror round up and post them in spinoffs almost every day, and reports of terror anywhere are becoming harder to find. Typically you see an uptick in the Spring. While the Tamil Tigers, Naxalists and other groups are risining in numbers of terror attacks, Islamist terror is decreasing. Everywhere but Pakistan and Afghanistan, where it's on a ramp up.

Won't see this on NBC! ?