Short diary, but hey: anybody see what could be a pattern here? Just blue-skying:
We've got supposedly Al Queda bomb threats on university campuses (yeah, right--because they're so great about warning in advance of attack).
We've got violent attacks on multiple US embassies.
We've got Benyamin Netanyahu going on MTP to double down on trying to oust Obama by screeching that Iran will have a dozen fully armed ICBMs by next Thursday.
I'm not saying these activities are coordinated--I don't believe they are.
What I believe is that each of these groups--radical Islamists, (probable) right-wing American threat-fakers, and the right-wing zealot Prime Minister of the State of Israel--all have one interest in common, which is to see Barack Obama defeated in November. They can see that chance dwindling, and it's possible that each group has independently concluded that they need to make what moves they can while they may be able to have some effect on the election.
Radical Islamists would love to see Obama gone. The US would promptly go back to being a swaggering bully overtly hostile to Islam, rather than supporting the aspirations of people hoping to be free, so it'll be easier to again cast the US as the Great Satan. Heck, maybe the drone strikes won't be as effectively targeted, either: certainly all recent history has shown Republicans to be more generally incompetent than Democrats.
The scares at the universities are, I grant, a shot in the dark. But two? On the same day? Neither of which actually involves either 1) the typical M.O. of terrorists, or 2) any actual bombs? Qui bono? If the country feels less secure, doesn't that tend to provide support to Romney's narrative about Obama's "appeasement" and "weakness"?
And Netanyahu is obvious. He hates Obama and desperately wants him gone.
This isn't really CT, because I don't believe this synchronicity is a result of conspiracy, but rather of similar motivations driving disparate groups' activities. Maybe there's nothing to, it, and it's just coincidence.
But all these events at once seem rather sudden, and all to the same narrative result, whether intended or not. And they do change the subject to one Mitt Romney has been choosing to focus on lately.
Hmm.