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To: ExSoldier
A man of invincible conviction--call it delusion, if you will--armed with explosives stolen or purchased for a handful of soiled bills can have a strategic impact that staggers governments.

This is ridiculous -- I stopped reading early in this article. The "invincible conviction" rhetoric is silly. And furthermore the sentence is just wrong.

No suicide bomber can "stagger" our government, while our armor (along with innumerable other stragegies) have kept our casualties in this war exceedingly low.

12 posted on 02/05/2006 7:51:21 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark
No suicide bomber can "stagger" our government....

Tell that to John O'Neill who retired from the FBI after 10 years of both hunting Osama and trying to warn everybody who'd even bend him an ear about the threat to our country from Osama. He was forced out of the Bureau and took a cushy job for $300,000 a year as chief of security for the World Trade Center. This was August 2001. On September 11th, he died along with the others.Those 19 Hijackers were suicide bombers. I'd say they not only staggered the government they staggered our economy pretty hard after the government grounded all commercial air for a week. What about a suicide bomber that walks down to the middle of WallStreet with a nuke in a duffle bag? Think that'd stagger the country?

The general militia of flight 93 were struggling with their enemies in the cockpit. A voice was heard in the background, right before the staggering end to the battle screaming ALLAHU AKBAR!! (God is Great). In fact nearly every Jihadist screams the same thing as they give their lives to enter paradise by killing infidels. I think that qualifies as "invincible conviction" in a pretty concrete manner.

17 posted on 02/05/2006 9:41:11 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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