Posted on 09/13/2001 3:16:00 AM PDT by jporcus
I wonder why they went after the World Trade Center? Wouldn't they have made a stronger statement hitting more traditional symbols like the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty, or the GW Bridge? Just curious what drives these monsters.
2) World Trade Center is the EASIEST target to hit in NYC, due to it's unobstructed angle of attack from the south (NY harbor).
It's obvious the terrorist attacks on America Tuesday, were designed to create economic havoc within our borders, perhaps even cause a depression. It is the duty of every American to not allow that to happen. If our buying habits are curtailed, our economy will suffer, and they will have won.
With all the "breaking news," it's difficult to turn off the television, and go buy that special item you had planned on purchasing . . . or just to take the family out to dinner. We encourage everyone to Fly "Old Glory", and continue on as you always have. To all that have lost family, loved ones, and friends, we offer this special prayer:
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To our enemies, we need this attack to simply be a minor economic speed bump that has awakened a sleeping GIANT that is united in it's resolve.
"The deliberate and deadly attacks . . . were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient. We'll be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination. This battle will take time and resolve, but make no mistake about it, we will win."
- President George W. Bush
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They will be disappointed. Few companies would locate computers in a high rise, and those that do would have back-ups in anonomous low rise buildings in the suburbs.
One of the trading conpanies located above the fire was based in London. This company will suffer, but did not lose any data. Many companies relocated their key people away from these buildings after the bombing.
There are many small blessings in this tragedy. Many people were aware of danger, due to the previous bombing, and evacuated immediately. The stairwells were lit this time. Whatever the final death toll, it will be about half what it would have been without the warning shot.
Could well be a major reason. This attack was surely intended to be, at least as much as a quick trip to Allah Land for the perps, a popular play "back home."
We must take Iraq while the world is sympathetic to our plight. Pump enough oil to significantly reduce oil prices, stimulating the world economy. The lower oil prices will cause the mideast regimes to collapse so we must set up democracies there. Buy western Jordan for a new Palestinian state with infrastructure paid for by the Iraqi oil fields. Create US bases in Iraq from which to enforce regional stability. Afghanistan/Syria/Iran/Sudan are much easier to deal with once the US bases are in place with a million troops to back up our policies. And it gets rid of the requirement for US carriers over there.
DO IT NOW. WE MUST USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO STABILIZE THE MIDEAST AND NEUTRALIZE TERRORISM.
BUMP
Several of them reminded me of scientific developments made by Arabs a long time ago and the vast territories they once controlled. So, I felt that much of their anger toward the United States was directed against what they see as our Gentile “success” in the world. In other words, very simply, the militant ones want to “control the world” and “be important again” and be more influential in world affairs, but today Arabs are not very influential at all, except for the world’s need of some of their oil supplies.
This jealousy would be similar to the militant German jealousy of England and France in the 1930s, and Japan’s jealousy of China and the militant desire to dominate the entire Orient.
I think that to the militant Arabs, the WTC represented the largest ostentatious symbol of American (Gentile and Jewish) success in the world.
Four planes could have actually taken out more people if they attacked several of our football stadiums on New Year’s Day, during the major bowl games, but the stadiums are not symbols of US world importance and commerce. In this regard, even the White House and Capitol buildings would be considered secondary targets.
I think this particular attack is not too much related to the Palestinian-Jewish situation, not as much as basic militant Arab jealousy about the general “success” of American Gentiles.
Fred: Even though a lot of Mexicans are jealous of us, there are already a lot of successful Mexicans here, and a lot of them do like us and a lot of us like them. We vacation down there. We love Cancun and Acapulco. Many Hindis want to get out of their own countries and they want to become successful and make money. They know we won’t try to suppress their religion over here. Japanese aren’t “Gentiles”. Germany is too small and was whipped by America. Attacking Germany would be like attacking..... Alabama.
I’m certainly not the world’s greatest psychologist, but this is just some information I picked up during my lifetime, and this is my evaluation of it. After centuries of not much activity in Italy, except for the gradual expansion of Catholicism around the world, Mussolini suddenly comes along and wants to rebuild the old “Roman Empire”. He was able to talk a lot of young Italian men into having that same dream, but the Italians in general weren’t really enthusiastic about it, and they finally turned against Mussolini.
Germany, since about the mid-19th Century had quite a lot of young guys and militarists who wanted Germany to dominate Europe, then when the Nazis came along, they wanted Germany to dominate the whole world, and they were able to propagandize many of their fellow citizens to cause them to feel the same way. The Japanese militarists of the 1930s-‘40s wanted Japan to dominate all the Orient, and then maybe later dominate the world, and they used media propaganda very effectively in Japan. The leaders of these three groups liked the idea of outright invasion and military domination of the other major countries, which, of course, turned out to be a mistake.
At different times during the past 500 years, England and Spain, and to some extent Portugal, wanted to sort of dominate the world in terms of gaining colonies. It was much easier for them to invade a lot of small countries and steal their natural resources than to fight directly against other major countries, so that’s the route their leaders took.
Ok, according to some of the militant Islamic Arabs I interviewed, mainly back in the 1980s, they seemed to me to be more interested in rebuilding a great Arabic Empire, and they were very jealous of what they looked upon as the “American Empire”, even though we Americans don’t have too many “colonies”, and even though their feud with us doesn’t go all the way back to Biblical times. Some of the guys I interviewed expressed a great disgust about what the Gentiles did to the Arabs during the Crusades. Well, heck, personally I never hold grudges that long, but some of them do. Not all of them, of course, but some of the extreme militants among them do.
Some of them wanted to promote Islam, but I got the impression that not all of them were religious, and even Islam was a “secondary” motive. Of course they didn’t like Jews and they wanted to wipe out Jews, but I got the impression that their greatest “gripe” was the loss of an Arabic Empire around the world, and the lack of respect they generally receive from all the major groups of people in the world today. Its like they had a..... pathological hatred of people who didn’t look up to them, and they tended to focus their hatred on America, rather than on Israel, because they tended to think of America as the world largest modern “Empire”.
Of course I don’t need to remind you that America is “great” not just because of the Gentiles and Anglo-Saxons among us, but because of the Jews, the Japanese, the British, the Spanish, the Germans, the French, the Chinese, etc., etc., and everyone else who works here, including non-militant Arabic businessmen.
No, what is unique is that which you try to discount. American power and wealth is placed unequivocally at the service of Israel, for the sake of this argument let us not even question the wisdom or correctness of this fact.
Fred: Well, England supports Israel, but the militant Arabs didn’t attack England. That’s because England is no longer the “leader of the world”, and it’s Empire has shrunk dramatically since the end of WW II.
Regarding the recent attacks, for these particular Arabs involved, the “Israel” thing (the Isaac/Ishmael family dispute) is fairly minor when compared to the “Arabian Empire/American Empire” thing. That’s why they didn’t crash the four planes into Israel. These terrorists weren’t “Palestinians”. Their dislike of Jews is actually fairly minor when compared to their dislike of Americans. They were militant Islamic Arabs from different countries, dreaming of a new Arabian Empire.
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