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In reply to the discussion: I beleive we will be back at serious war in Iraq, this time against ISIS. [View all]Stinky The Clown
(68,958 posts)They have many, many members who have western passports and are Western citizens. As such, they have a far better chance of traveling here freely than bin Laden's team did.
They have lots of money. They have a fairly steady, and thus far reliable source of substantial ongoing income by way of smuggling and other criminal undertakings. Money can buy them what they need to carry out an attack.
They have absolutely no hesitation to kill anyone and everyone anywhere.
An attack on US soil is the holy grail for the modern terrorist set.
That would seem to me enough to suspect they are a real threat.
Now, all YOU had to do was ask me. The snarky/scoldy crap ("If not, then you're doing the exact same thing you're dismissing the other poster for. "
was really quite unnecessary.
Its responses like yours and that other fellow that makes me want to once again take a sabbatical. No one wants to discuss. Everyone wants to be sarcastic and pugnacious.