[Incorrigible]

Not so much yourself there Fighting Irish. I was really thinking of some other recent threads I've had the pleasure of joining HellInAHandCart on.

As HellInAHandCart mentions, the conspiracy theories started on 9/12/2001. I used to go at length to dispute them but they came up so often, I lost interest.

HellInAHandCart however, has not lost her fervor and still fights the fight.

The lack of fighters is really no surprise. The air traffic controllers were surprised and did not react to the immediacy the situation required given everything we know now. So by the time they got serious and by the time the military got serious, it was already minutes too late.  That was a mistake not likely to happen again (at least in our lifetimes).

Given that we've only heard audio tape of Osama since the War on Terror began (the videos have been from pre-9/11 or at best, not dateable), I'm not really sure he's still alive.  However, assuming he still is, he's alive because we are engaging the War on Terror with one hand behind our back.  If we could really enter these lawless areas of Pakistan, we might have already had his head on a spike, but geo-political reality is what it is.  And I know people like to look back at WWII as unbridled warfare, but there was political reality there too otherwise Eastern Europe wouldn't have been Communist for 50 years.

I have not been accused of being a troll I'll admit, but I've certainly been thought of as a "shill" for commercial software here.  I prefer the moniker "apologist!"

 

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I have not been accused of being a troll I'll admit,

I was called that by an IRA supporter once, which is ironic when you think about it!! :-P

...but I've certainly been thought of as a "shill" for commercial software here.

I'm sure some consider me a shill for MI5....

:-P