TWA 800: The Great Untold Story of Our Time

One cannot rule out how Clinton's re-election campaign factored into the how the TWA Flt 800 downing was handled and reported.

The islamocrazies must have wondered what it would take to get or keep the Clinton administration's attention, or so it looked to me at the time. Who knows what the real story is, or what went on behind closed doors or was said in now deleted emails.

9/11 definitely got the world's attention, but they saved it for Bush.

I figure they got all they wanted from Clinton, so why waste it, right? Better to just save it and wait for the next one.

Things really changed after 9/11, like someone has owned US little by little, more and more, ever since.

One cannot rule out how Clinton's re-election campaign factored into the how the TWA Flt 800 downing was handled and reported.

Agree. When you look at the chronology of events at the time, the political part of the equation was especially critical.

1993 -- The first WTC attack by militant Islamists.

April 19, 1995 -- OKC bombing

June 25, 1996 -- Khobar Towers bombing

July 17, 1996 -- The crash of TWA 800

July 27, 1996 -- Centennial Olympic Park Bombing During the Olympic Games

9/11 definitely got the world's attention, but they saved it for Bush.

We did have the bombings of our Embassies in East Africa in 1998 that killed or injured more than 5,000 people. We also had the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. And in 1999, the first officer deliberately crashed Egypt Air Flight 990 south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing 217.

Thanks for that review. I remember thinking they kept hitting again and again, but never got a rise out of Clinton other than maybe the NATO to Kosovo tour.

Given the layers of blackmail opportunities anyone could have had on Clinton, the islamocrazies likely would have had to take a number and wait their turn.

Personally, I lean in favor of a missile of some type taking down Flt 800. I don't know whose or whether from a foe or a friendly accident or what type or nationality of the missile.

If I had more time, I'd look for videos of various SAM missiles being tested against drones. For most of the world's inventory of SAMs at the time, a departing loaded B747 working its way out of that area would be an easy target.

Anyone who wanted to take down an airliner out of JFK could easily set up on the departure path and fire indiscriminately for effect and get "lucky".

Just as easy to conclude that there was a high value target on board and that would make downing Flt 800 a twofer or better, depending on the motive and desired end result.

Prior to 9/11, we still lived in a world where we could be shocked by the outrageous and most didn't consider flying a plane load of people and fuel into the WTC until the islamocrazies hit each tower and brought it down.

Our thinking is much different now, but then, look at what all we've endured and witnessed in our highest and, to some, our most sacred places.

Should our normalcy bias be any different today compared to then, other than maybe being slightly more jaded with our "new normal"?

Or, "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

Not much, apparently.

"Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was." So..
"Hit 'em again. Hit 'em again, harder, harder"

But don't forget the Egypt Air 990 suicide plunge or the 1995 Project Bojinka plot, a large-scale, three-phase attack planned by Islamists Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for January 1995. They planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II, blow up 11 airliners in flight from Asia to the United States with the goal of killing approximately 4,000 passengers and shut down air travel around the world, and crash a plane into the headquarters of the CIA in Fairfax County, Virginia.

So many memories...thanks for that refresher!

The internet expression is "Pictures or it didn't happen."

I think that's also a feature of our normalcy bias against the islamocraziness that we can't quite get our heads around, nor do we want to.

In other words, if they haven't done it, it can't happen. That's our view and we like it that way, right?

But then the Daniel Pearl video made it real, sorta.
A bunch of school girls being taken to be slaves raised the outrage and made it hashtag real, sorta.
A line of Christians on the beach being beheaded, their blood running into the sea, raised the outrage, sorta.
A captured pilot being burned alive in a cage raised the outrage, sorta.

And on and on, but what about our normalcy bias against reality, did it change?
Did our sense of reality change with reality's fundamental transformation?
Our fear?

Nope. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

All that has changed is our dumbed down to our LCD politically correct sense of good and bad, right and wrong, moral and immoral and if we care or not.

According to my father now passed, the pendulum of such things swings from side to side with each generation and he got old enough to quit worrying about it.

But in our times, the pendulum swung way over to one side where it was lassoed and tied to a post with a turtle on top.

That freaks me out, but normalcy bias doesn't even bother to notice and likes it that way.

And hey, wasn't that CIA video of Flt 800 awesome?
Frayed wire...boom. Oh well, sh!t happens...

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