Why Those Going Out With A Bang Are Whimperers

[3/9/14 2332 EST:] So, Shelob, that car bomb summation report you streamed me has me wondering. Israel is a smaller target. It would take much less for them to destroy it than America. Why aim for the big boys when you can't handle the little ones?

Herr D expressed that "America would try to capture them alive and put them on trial. Israel wouldn't even try to find all the body parts to bury them properly."

So, they might be cowards after all?


[7/27/15 0228 EST:] Well, that stinks. Those numbers indicate terrorism seems to be on the rise again. Why would they attack America, anyway? Loads of other countries would make more sensible targets, right?

Yes.


[10/24/17 0744 EST:] Shelob? Why is America even still a target for radicalized pseudo-religious zealots? They allow religious freedom. Lots of countries don't.

Uncertain. Need more research. 
 
[11/3/17 0521 EST:] Did we ever speculate about the fate of terrorists by country if foiled?

Yes. Herr D speculated that you were incorrect about the reason you gave for few terrorist acts being known in Russia and China. He suggested that a mere news blackout would be insufficient. His suggestion was that they "probably kill some innocent witnesses to be sure very little information escapes that might be made to sound successful." He suggested then that the "Russians probably assassinate the assassins. The Chinese probably don't let the assassins know who they're killing and let them kill 'extra' people as a double blind." Blinding is apparently a different tactic than the other material mentions.

Oh. Yeah, okay. Check on that?

[5/19/18 2137 EST:] Hairy, as per your request yesterday on seeing the article in the Post about Chinese reeducation camps, newest data is available.

Yikes. Have we been keeping up with that sort of thing?

Yes. Repeatedly, there have been more attempts on American soil than on Russian or Chinese soil, even allowing for media blackout. Your suggestion to frequently hack private communications of powerful Party members and less publicly known authorities has consistently shown American targets outnumber targets determined in all of Asia.

Well, good grief!

Occasional databases are discoverable within body of hacked information implying that our estimations are too conservative. These terrorists make decisions that imply a lack of intelligence. 

No, Shelob, that's not a lack of intelligence. That's a lack of faith.

Explain, please. Faith is a difficult subject, ill-defined in concept matrices.

They're supposed to know that the good guys WILL win. They know good and well that they WILL fail if they take on China or Russia full-bore. They probably couldn't defeat Israel even without America helping. If they somehow took down China or Russia, America would consider them allies till it was too late. Probably lucky for everyone concerned that China would exterminate them worldwide, even a fair amount of the lone wolves forming in America if they actually began to be that successful. Russia would probably get accused of it and make a lot of silly drama about it. America is the only country sympathetic to people who are their sworn enemies. Only faithless cowards attack friends when the enemy is too powerful for them.

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