[shhrubbery!]

In a graduate seminar in military history, I recall one young student who intoned the tired old antiwar shibboleth, “It would be nice if they gave a war and nobody showed up.” The professor, a Marine veteran of the Korean War, responded, “Young lady, the aggressor always shows up.”

Peace-niks never get this.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[EdReform]

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[Paleo Conservative]

On September 11, 2001, at the behest of radical Islamic jihadist Osama bin Laden, nineteen Muslim terrorists hijacked four American airliners and used them to kill almost twice as many people as the Japanese did with their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. There was one big difference, however. While most of the people the Japanese killed were soldiers and sailors, except for the military personnel who died in the Pentagon (evidently a ?secondary target?), the vast majority of victims on 9/11 were civilians: men, women and children totally uninvolved in whatever inspired the hatred that drove the terrorists who murderously snuffed out their lives.

According to one engineer I read about in a news story, if the WTC towers had acted as rigid bodies instead of flexible bodies, the torque created by the initial impacts would have knocked them over. In that case, we wouldn't have been talking about 3,000 people dying and comparing it to Pearl Harbor. We would have had 30,00 - 50,000 dead and would be comparing it to Antietam or Gettysburg.

My pet theory is that the first attack which hit the North tower on the 92nd floor (where the impact would generate more torque) was intended to knock it over and cause a chain reaction that would knock down other nearby buildings. The pilots of the second 767 seeing the North Tower still standing but on fire aimed lower on the the South tower to make evacuation more difficult for people in the upper floors. I think that if the first tower had collapsed on impact, the second plane would have also aimed for the upper floors. I have no way to prove this, because most of the conspirators are dead.

[kinsman redeemer]

I feel better after reading this.

Thanks for the post.

[KriegerGeist]

"David didn’t love Goliath to death. "

It was more like David, in righteous anger ["who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the army of the Living God"], slung about a .50 caliber stone right into Goliath's brain pan and hacked Goliath's heard off with his own sword.

Don't ya just gotta love David?

[spunkets]

“Young lady, the aggressor always shows up.”

Most of them never get this. The others of them advocate surrender.

[FourPeas]

Bump for a good read.

[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

Oo-hah for warrior David!

[joesnuffy]

What if they gave a holocaust and no U.S. GI's showed up
Or a Pearl Harbor and no U.S. military fought back or showed up
Or a war to free slaves and no soldiers showed up
Or a rape and no neighbor with a gun showed up