That's of course how it's gonna look like in 2012 -- true leaders never look into the past, they're too busy defining the future. Time goes fast given you're busy and always up to something -- disruption! I still clearly remember the moment when 9/11 happened and realize how much I've changed since then. Mixed thoughts started buzzing around my mind, the type of thoughts Cryptome's Daily Photos smartly emphasises on. Anyway, someone or something always has to, either be the result, the consequence, or the foundation for the next stage. I'll leave it open to interpretations on what interacts with what :Cold War <=> Defense/Intelligence spending/Innovation <=> Post 9/11 World
Terrorist <=> Ideology <=> War
Foreign policy <=> Terrorism <=> Geopolitical dominance
Terrorism <=> OSINT <=> Intelligence
Civil Liberties <=> Terrorism <=> Surveillance
Poverty <=> G8 <=> Developed world
Space exploration budget cuts <=> Terrorism <=> Alternative energy sources development
Paranoia <=> Terrorism <=> Security services/products market growth
I can keep on going, but that's not the point, the point is how globalisation is acting as a double edged sword, and so is paranoia, still, keep in mind that there're one million other ways to get killed compared to a terrorist attack.
There've always been and will always be "bad guys", "good guys", and "greyhat guys" -- barking dogs of course -- trouble is knowing whom to trust at a particular moment in time. I can easily argue that during the past five years, all the "bad guys" had to do was to go through the press and come up "future long term strategies" perceptional enough to shock and awe "the infidels". My point is that, OSINT is also a double edged sword, useful and dangerous to both parties. As far as the infidels are concerned, I'm not one - I believe in myself!
Underestimating an adversary is much worse than overestimating it, just cut using terrorism as the excuse for everything you do, or are about to do, which is as subjective as China's economy taking over the world -- something neither the "bad guys" nor China would do.
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