That's how I see it too.
I asked for two reasons, one to make sure I wasn't missing something.
20 planes is nothing compared to two towers, the run on the markets would be less than a tenth of what 9/11 accomplished, aircraft bombings are almost passe these days to the great masses.
The cell phones bother me too, especially the numbers of them.
That was only one support cell, how many others are out there?
To be perfectly honest, if they choose to bring it out in the open over here, it's fine by me. Let's say there's ten "cells", 10,000 sleepers, and all of them open up on us on the 22nd, or piecemeal.
Let's say they get ten half awake civilians each before the NRA types fall on them and sentd them to Allah. Make it a hundred victims each. That's one million US citizens dead, due to Islamic terrorists.
Right off the bat, we start bombing Tehran until they break and run.
Right off the bat, every single Muslim in the US, in the UK, in a LOT of places feels the itch that comes from a red dot on your back or forehead.
Right off the bat, radical Islam is contained to the ME, weeded out of our western societies, fairly or not, they give up incredible advantage making a move like that and in the end, one million friendlies hurt or even killed may be getting off lightly, considering the alternatives.
As soon as America can't go to work, America arms itself, and then the Islamists better make fast tracks home.
It took a full division of NG to put down the Rodney King riots, and that was just one city. There isn't enough army to stop what will happen to every Muslim in the US of they come at us like that.
I know, it's the economy, stupid but...
Shortly after 9/11 I drove home most of the way across the US, and realized something.
Islam cannot win here.
This country is too big.
Too many cars, too many factories, too many cities and towns, too many wheat fields and wells and bridges and roads and trucks and planes and computers, it took 200 years to build all of this and even one million raving jihadists couldn't tear it all down in less time than that.
They can't say that. We could erase the mideast in one hour.
Forever.
Yes, the markets take a hit, but the bedrock foundations under the market hype is value, and there's just too much value here to erase.
We take a step back, maybe 10 years, maye 100 years, but Islam...ends...and we remain, along with most of what we've built up.
That's the bottom line. Even the Libs were ready to start shooting on 9/12, most of them at the jihadists. If a clash of civilizations must come to pass, there isn't the first doubt in my mind who wins it, and it most definitely will not be those who think earth needs to return to the year 700 AD.
Period.
Hey, Jeffers,
I don't agree with you on everything, but that was a great post & most of it is right on the money. Though I think that it would take a lot less than 1 million dead Americans for Tehran to be gone.* And there's no way, short of several dozen nukes, or some sort of epidemic type biological warfare carried out very well, that they'd set us back more than 10 years. Just look at how fast we are recovering (all except maybe New Orleans and a few other isolated spots) from last year's hurricanes.
As for the NRA thing, you'd think the moderate Muslims in this country would realize what risk they are at, and would be working as hard as possible to turn in the cells and the sleepers. Fools that they are...
I would dispute one thing though: There are huge numbers of Muslims in Indonesia, Malaysia, etc. I don't think Islam will "end". We'd have nuclear winter before we could take out half those islands.