[TigersEye]

9/11/01 is what convinced me that they are pretty darned stupid. All that morning I kept expecting to hear about hi-jacked planes all over the country. They had one shot at using airplanes as missiles like that. If they had had crews in virtually every plane in the air that morning they could have hit targets in almost every major city. A very doable thing. That would have devastated this country economically and severely damaged our spirit.

They had one shot to seriously cripple us and they blew it. Those are the actions of punk thugs not a brilliant enemy.

[dragnet2]

I couldn’t agree more.

[DesertRhino]

Except using *that* many teams, all over the country, at numerous airports,,*vastly* increases the chances that the plan gets compromised. They arent stupid. And 9/11 cost us more money than we will know. The DOW dropped 25%, and except for radiation, NYC might as well have had a tiny tactical nuke dropped on lower Manhattan.

[DC Ripper]

Sorry to disagree. I think what they did was huge, as do most people, and I think they made their point.

I guess we disagree on the proportion of what happened on 9/11.