Reply #52: Success may well indeed be another question

[Paschall]

But having witnessed, over the past two decades, one such bombing from the safety of my living room, and had at least another half dozen bombs explode within an eight block radius of my home, I feel confident that if the elements bent on destruction exist in sufficient number (and the appear to in Algeria), some portion of them will always succeed.

I read their relative silence today as indication that this so-called Islamic war against the West is not in fact a religious jihad against western values and institutions, but a political struggle embracing many causes, not least among which is the re-establishment of a pan-Islamic caliphate, with the overthrow of corrupt ME monarchies, the liberation of the Palestinians, and--now--the expulsion of the Western occupiers in Iraq.