Reply #91: I've pretty much laughed off most of the terra!terra! crap

[Tsiyu]

but the situation in the ME is growing darker and more menacing.

There are some real pissed-off Arabs and Persians right about now. Afghanistan was strike one, Iraq was strike two, now Lebanon is getting pummeled and the US is not trying to restrain Israel.

There are people who think terrorism is the only way to wake up the west, just as the west thinks bombs and endless wars can solve the problems in the east. So i don't doubt that this threat has some validity to it.

But we're all so conditioned to ignore the Terra!Terra!Terra! alerts, when something big is coming down the pike who the hell is going to pay attention?