- Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:58 am
#8590
The killing of innocents always strengthens and unites the opposiion. Our use of DU and slaughtering a quarter million or so Iraqi civilians seriously undermined our efforts in the invasion of Iraq. The attacks on civilian targets like the nightclub in Bali and the world trade center drove the moderate muslims from the center towards sympathy for the christian world as well. Whenever you politically radicalize, you lose the center. So, by playing to the nuts on the fringe of your group, you energize and coalesce your base, but you lose a certain percentage of them. Sometimes, this is a calculated risk on the part of a party, other times it is the foolish mistake of an ameature, history decides which is which.