You don’t open a McDonald’s franchise unless there is a big demand for hamburgers in your neighborhood. For the same reason, you don’t start a terror organization unless there are a lot of people willing to pay you to commit acts of terror. George Bush has created a huge population of people who would like to see harm come the the United States. These people are willing to give money to anyone who will commit those acts for them. Therefore, terror organizations spring up like franchises to ask for that money. To put it more succinctly: “It’s the money, stupid”.

A McDonald’s will not give you a Big Mac with Cheese, if you only pay for a Big Mac. Likewise, terror organizations will not give donors more than they pay for, and since it will increase their profit, they will be happy to give them less than they pay for. After all, why spend money, or risk (their own) lives, or risk arrest, or get the CIA annoyed, if they don’t have to? That’s one reason why more than one terror organization may claim responsibility for a single event. “It’s the money, stupid.”

Planting a bomb and setting it off with a cell phone is not high tech. Regardless of what Bush says, all of the precautions that we can muster cannot stop this kind of simple-minded attack. We haven’t seen these attacks in the United States because there is an expense to commit them. Expenses subtract from profits. “It’s the money, stupid”.

Another reason why we haven’t seen terror attacks in the United States recently is that a terrorist organization must have a way to prove that they committed the act, and a way for potential donors to get the money to them without the money trail exposing the organization.

The only conclusion that I can come to is that the way to decrease the threat of terrorism is to cool the level of Muslim hostility toward the United States. What do you think?

LHS