Ah ha...you're making the same point I was making to my co-workers today. They think I'm nuts, but one was saying something about the FBI security warnings and that the terrorists were just trying to scare peopel because that's their goal..to terrify us. I said nonsense, that's the old PLO model used in Western Europe. This is entirely different...these guys are at war. They're interested in killing Americans, wrecking our economy and defeating us. They flew planes into the WTC and caused them to collapse...they didn't threaten to do it, they just did it.
I really don't think they're interested in ruining our Halloween...they're more interested in killing our kids on Halloween. They way be getting a kick out of watching us scramble about because of the latest Anthrax scare, but that's not their primary goal.. Their goal is to kill people. This is really very serious.
Yep. The DC portion of the 9/11 attacks had very practical objectives - decapitating our government and/or military command. I heard somewhere today (can't remember where, unfortunately) that the gov. had come into a copy of Al Qaeda documents describing how to attack targets that were to be attacked because of their economic importance.
The Golden Gate Bridge, if it is a target, is a target because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that it will significantly damage the N. California economy. Any symbolic or emotional damage is just gravy.
I don't think they want to kill just a few kids which is why trick-or-treating was safe enough. It would be too easy for people to remember which homes they visited and being arrested for killing only a dozen or so kids isn't what they want to do, they're aiming for thousands or at least hundreds at a time. Malls, schools, or any crowded places will be targets.
I think that the biggest hammer that the American people have is to write or call their congress critters and tell them that we will not buy or fly until they start the deportations.
I believe that they are nearly as concerned about the economy as the terrorists.
There are so many people who have NO conception whatsoever of history, are so illogical that they do not realize that as of 9/11, EVERYTHING changed, irrevokably. Our nation will be at war for YEARS.