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PLEASE tell me you're right, to wit: the nukes are NOT in the USA. I hope you are right. When I read my husband the lead article in this thread, he said the same thing you did. He's always contended that they used up all their weaponry on 911, and that there'll be NO further terrorist attacks on American soil for a very very very long time, if ever.

They used up a few box cutters and nineteen out of who-knows-how-many hundreds or thousands of fanatical Islamic zealots. The key to both conventional and unconventional warfare is SUSTAINED ATTACK. Even a blitzkrieg only works if the initial shock is followed up in a sustained way.

No, 9/11 was only the opening salvo. It is extremely naive, wishful thinking to assume otherwise.

Sorry to break the news to you about your husband. ;-)

You know what is the HARDEST thing for me, in discussions such as this? It's that I seriously do not believe myself capable of understanding the THOUGHT PROCESS vis a vis the motivations & goals of the terrorists.... and so... how can I ever *predict* their next action, as all their actions are so antithetical to me?

Frankly, it is sheer COGNITIVE DISSONANCE for me to deal with the RAW HATRED and murderous glee and love of DEATH that I see exhibited in these barbaric savages.

I know that "expert military talking heads" have also claimed that OBL would have used nukes on 911 IF he had them....

I cannot say anything like THAT with assurity and certainty myself, as truly, these al-Qaeda goons are so divorced and contrary to anything I personally know - excepting perhaps, casual reading about clinical psychopathology and many years ago I read a whole slew of books about cults.

The post of mine that you reference shows that although I am very accustomed to the VIEW that OBL could not possibly have nukes ready to boom in this beautiful country... that I nonetheless remain open to the possibility, as there is, I feel, NO way to rationally predict the future actions of a mad "holyman" who is a madhi-WANNABEE - and who am I to delve into his apocalyptic messianic PSYCHOSIS..... ? [_grin_]