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A new 9/11 attack would swing the sympathy and support back toward the U.S. Why would a smart (and I think they are smart) terrorist organization want to do that?
There is a saying in the US, I've no attribution, that all politics are local. I suspect that the terrorists's "audience" are other muslims and islamic states. They use terrorism primarily for influencing the attitudes of members of that demographic.
I could be wrong about all this, it's just how I make sense of this. If that's the case the determining factors will not be world opinion but arabic and muslim opinion and thus further terrorist attacks might be evaluated as helpful.
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