perish, the thought

what?!? appeasement doesn't work?!? inconceivable!!!

Now that it "perceives" America as emasculated (due to the Democrats' election), Al Qaeda appears to be moving very agressively to initiate new attacks against the West--while it perceives the Bush Administration to be "helpless" to do anything in response.

Whether America--or Bush--is indeed impotent to respond to a 9/11 type attack is immaterial to this point; because all that is required is for AQ to believe we will do nothing. Perception is everything. Before the elections I warned repeatedly that the elections of Democrats would embolden Islamists everywhere to step up their violence. Now, as AJ Strata has been reporting for the last several days, predictions about the elections sparking new boldness in our enemies seem to have credence. Stay tuned...

First we have India renewing its security clamp down at their airports after the FBI issued warnings that Al Qaeda is planning on highjacking US planes for a 2nd 9-11.

“We sounded an alert after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) forwarded an email that spoke of the possibility of an al-Qaeda attempt to hijack US-bound flights from India,” a home ministry official said.

The official, who did not wanted to be named, said the email written by an “unknown entity” appeared to have originated from India and was received by the FBI Saturday at its headquarters in the US.

On top of this new concern is word out regarding Al Qaeda plans to topple the democratically elected government in Lebanon. This is in addition to word that Al Qaeda plans to attack Europe around the Christmas and New Year holidays. And we all know about the mobilization of Al Qaeda in Iraq - to send these kinds of signals to Pelosi and Reid. If this trend continues, the election of the Democrats will have been seen as one of the biggest political blunders in modern history. The Democrats emboldned the terrorists with their unrelenting calls to surrender Iraq. And now they have to make good on their commitments to Al Qaeda - at least that is what Al Qaeda believes. I wonder if we would be here, with this problem, if the liberal media and dems (and impatient Reps) has stood by Bush on this one issue and declared no option but success in Iraq. My guess is Al Qaeda would have given up the ghost by now. But we will never know for sure.