US Suicide Bombings

How would America react if a car/suicide bombing campaign started in here in the states?

"This is a very dangerous world. It's an era of terror, and fixing this problem will not be easy," said Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) at a briefing held by the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

"We can see in regions there is now al Qaeda ... there will surely be an umbrella group in Europe and possibly [a group] here," she said, noting that "car bombings and suicide bombings are likely to be in our future."

What would a bombing campaign require? Well if it is suicide bombing then it obviously requires a steady stream of people willing to die and source for explosives. In the US it isn’t hard to make a low level explosive. Recipes can be found on the internet or even in books like the Anarchist Cookbook available on Amazon.com. The materials can be purchased with little notices since they are house hold items. No the explosives are not the real problem for a suicide campaign it is the need for people. Even with the open society that the US is, the stream of people needed to make an effecting campaign would be noticed because the majority of them would have to come from the outside. Most definitely there would be some home grown terrorists, but even that type of recruitment would be noticed.

In order for a suicide bombing campaign to have long term feasibility, there has to be a safe base of operations. Israel is surrounded by terrorist strongholds so much so that a fence was put up. These Base of Operations have to be located in a friendly environment to allow the continuous campaign of suicide bombers. For the US, terrorist would have at best neutral territory to work from in Mexico and a hostile one in Canada, since they have their own problems with terrorists.

This is not say, that we won’t have any because there is a desire by the terrorist heads to strike fear in the hearts and minds of America. If or when it does happen, I see several major things coming to bear. The border fence (virtual or real) will be completed, violence against those of Middle Eastern decent will sky rocket and an immigration block from Muslim nations will be pushed through. Detention camps may make a comeback depending on how bad the violence against ME is and how bad the bombings are. Racial profiling will become a normal procedure by the authorities. In general, life for ME will become much less favorable.

I hope for the sake of America and for the innocent that none of this ever does happen.