Posted on 09/11/2001 10:31:42 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:46:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Could we stop calling this a "tragedy"? The hijacking of planes from American and United Airlines by terrorists, who crashed them into the two World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, represent an act of war. It's that simple. Yesterday's carnage may not have been preceded by a hand-delivered notice and a finely worded declaration of war, but such formalities are not the nature of warfare in the 21st century. Come to think of it, no formalities were observed at Pearl Harbor either, which caught the U.S. government equally unprepared. Yesterday was a "day of infamy" no less than Dec. 7, 1941.
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You can not tell me that the powers in the Arab world did not know in advance of a major terrorist attack although they may not known of the details.
Yeah and my mother is Mickey Mantle. Fry Arafat!
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