[js1138]

They talking Pentagon? An unfinished target,they go back for it -- cutting off military if they try a radiation bomb or some other stunt. How would people get to their offices if radioactivity exists? The American military structure was designed for nuclear war. Chop off our head and we survive, because each of us is autonomous. If our enemies think we are imperialists, wait until we are free of the restraint of ordinary politics. I personally don't ever want to see this, but it could happen.

[Finalapproach29er]

They said ARMY-not military. Why that one branch of our service,I wonder?

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Good points regarding al qaeda's missunderstanding of some key USA characteristics: our military and civilain autonomy. Reminds me of a comment that I believe mullah omar or someone made in a video shown featuring usama in late 2001 after Sept. 11. It was that video where everyone is sitting around and recanting stories and dreams about 911. Anyway, mullah omar or someone else is heard talking about what he thought the USA thought was happening on 911 in the beginning of the attack. I laughed when he sort of speculated and said that we thought it was a coup perhaps. But we Americans know that we do not have coups here, don't we?!

al qaeda is not stupid; there is much brain power and education on their side. But there are a few things that they have not understood about America.