Posted on 09/13/2001 11:54:38 PM PDT by kristinn
Save it for another time.
Thanks for singling that out; I'd missed it. I'll wipe my eyes now.
Dan
I wish I had not read it. It made me sick.
No. There could be other hijack teams out here in the USA, waiting.
If our air traffic safety was so secure before, why is there a perceived problem now ? Could it be that it wasn't really that safe ?
This has never ever been a safe world. All safety and control is an illusion.
Where were our intelligence services ?
The FBI raided several Arab webboards' participants last week.
Why did we have Clinton holdover DCI, George Tenent, doing the work of the Secretary of State in the Middle East instead of cleaning up the wreckage of the past eight years ?
Because either Bush hasn't gotten around to nominating a replacement, or the Congresscritters have stalled the process.
How is it that foreign terrorists can go to flight school in the U.S., plot and carry out a complicated, coordinated massive assault involving several dozen conspirators against two vital American facilities without being detected ?
Because America trains them. Its called Security Assistance. Its part of our foreign policy. Much of "foreign aid" manifests itself in the form of grants for armaments and training.
How is it that four hijacked planes flew unmolested and unchallenged by neither our air traffic control system or our military ?
Good question.
As far as the rest, I've found that those more interested in placing blame than finding a solution are usually harboring an agenda...supporting/denigrating the GOP, Libertarians, Buchanan, Keyes, Klayman, etc. The hysteria is the same, all that changes is the hat. Generally, I have no use for them.
Right now, IMO, there will be no return to reasoned discourse until the immediate shock and anger has been vented. This is understandable.
A tremendous number of people are learning that they have a real enemy. This idea, 'a real enemy', is absolutely foriegn to them. They have to learn to think in terms of someone actively wanting to kill them. Most people have never concieved of this idea, much less had to live with it.
Their worlds are changing in ways they cannot imagine....much like so many people had their worlds end in a flash of light, pain, thoughts of "Why G-d?".
Regards,
The same reason that forty years ago you didn't have to lock your doors when you left for a two week vacation. You could trust anyone who might pass in. No gated communities needed.
But sometime since a burglary, a robbery happens. People start locking their doors. They stop expecting people to behave and retreat to things -- deadbolts, security doors, alarm systems, bars on the windows. With each security thing added actually security goes down, not up. Why? Because each purchase, each installation, each rumor of a break-in, expectations of the behaviour of others goes down.
Adoption of a security procedure or security thing takes away from the only way that really insures security. That way is personal responsibility, social expectations of that high level of responsibility, enforced social expectations of that responsibility.
In this horrible circumstance, the domestic flight hijacking and the WTC suicide bombing, the only way to insure that security is to pursue a war of annihilation of the men, women and children in the families and cultures that teach such evil acts.
Help me out here. Is that Bush bashing or not? :-)
I've been called immoral because I support Bush. Where do we go from here?
Oh, please, I can beat that. I was told by one of these "principled" people that not only was I an immoral conservative because I support Bush, but that I had manipuated the entire forum to feel sorry for me because of my son's death.
You're going to have to go some to beat that.
Hmmmmmm...........I guess "immoral" covers everything these folks want to place in that category. It is sickening that their expression of hatred knows no discretion.
One would think that they could hold their tongues for just a little while. But no, if there is a way to extract something from anything and turn it into a Bush assault, they'll find it. It says a great deal about their judgment. I find this behavior even worse than that of the liberals; at least the libs don't pretend to be our friends. If these constant critics must tear down Bush at this time, they have proven that their ego-driven agenda is a world unto itself. Very sad !!!!!!!!!
Ya think???????? LOL !!!!!
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