Bill writes:
I don't think joe-blow America will ever understand the reasoning behind radical Middle East reactionism until he learns the history and extent of his nations long involvement in the affairs of the Arab world.
I tend to agree that the West has been and is overly involved in the affairs of the Middle East. It all started during the end of the 19th century when significant deposits of oil were discovered in the deserts out there.
We are there now to "secure" the oil supplies of the region for the use of the world. It certainly sounds like a noble cause, but we should expect that the price of this will be high in the long run.
Osama's plan is to create a new "Caliphate" or worldwide Muslim power that will stretch from Morocco in the west to Indonesia (and perhaps the Philippines) in the east. He plans to install Taliban-like theocracies in the member states of this empire that will rule the people with an iron rod and enforce a social system that is anathema to the democracies of the West.
Once that small task is accomplished, they will develop themselves as a nuclear power and begin the task of converting the entire world to Islam. Its a tactic that the early muslims found effective in the 7th and 8th centuries, only this time, instead of a sword, nuclear weapons would be used. The choice would be simple...convert to Islam or be vaporized!
Of course, I do not think the West will sit back while all of this is happening. But, with, as Gene points out, 100 million people dedicated/sympathetic to the plan, we can expect things to really get "ugly" over the next decade or so.
The media is puzzled why Osama's latest audio message to America came out just recently. It is no mystery to me. Many of the more radical Islamists are into numerology since the Arabs consider themselves to have invented numbers (they didn't) and I noticed that the message from Osama was released just about the same time that the USA's death toll in Iraq reached the number of 2222.
Well, the number 222 is one that can associate with the history of the United States. For example, the founder of the US, George Washington, has his birthday on February 22nd or 2/22. Washington was also given a prophecy (you can read more about the "Washington Prophecy" in the article "Decoding the Great Seal of the United States" on my website) that predicted the entire history of the USA would only last 222 years. If we add 222 to the year that the USA was "officially" formed, we get 1998. What happened in 1998? Osama declared "war" against the USA in July of that year!
I consider this threat by Osama to be particularly dangerous although I notice that the American media is "downplaying" his message. Well, I suspect that we will wind up regretting it because, during the last decade, practically every warning given in these messages has promptly been followed up with an attack.
The next attack in America will not, I believe, be a small one. If it was then people would say that al Qaeda is no longer able to mount a serious attack like what happened on 9/11. No...I fear the next attack here will be, at least, on a par with 9/11 and might even be worse!
ken
On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
