I wrote,
> Let's think of who may have planned and organized this. There
> are two possible groups:
> one is the military of the former government.
....
> The other group consists of people who want to recreate a caliphate.
Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Only two possibilities? No more? Your two possibilities only
involve people who are goal-oriented and rationally or logically
pursuing those goals according to a plan. I imagine that is
because you tend to think that way. But there are a lot of people
in the world who don't.
Good point. But as you ask later, in response to my note that this
was an "`L' shaped ambush", is this, as you ask, "why you are assuming
it was carefully planned, probably by someone with a military
background?"
My answer is yes. People who respond `hotly' sometimes fail with one
part or other of their action (but not always). This action had three
parts. It was reported because all three parts succeeded from the
point of view of the enemies of the US.
* The `L' shaped ambush was one part.
* A second part was having the bodies mutilated.
* A third part was having enough of the worlds' press there so the
mutilated bodies would be shown or there existance made known. (I
personally have not looked at any pictures.)
One or two of these outcomes might have been done by people acting
irrationally. But for all three to have succeeded, as far as I can
see, required preplanning. Yes, all three might have occured without
preplanning; but probabilistically speaking, preplanning increases the
likelihood all will occur.
The crowd may be filled with irrational people, but I doubt the
planners were. (As I said, it goes without saying that this is all
probabilistic reasoning; but on what else are you going to base your
judgements of something both strange and foreign?)
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