[Charlesj]

This is the scariest yet most thoughtful speculation on the terrorists I've read.

[SamAdams76]

This is an alarmist article very similar to those that appeared in the waning days of 1999 (remember Y2K?). I think that 9/11 was the terrorists best shot and if they had weapons of mass destruction, they certainly would have used them by now. But should they in the future obtain and use such weapons against us, one can safely assume that the U.S. response will be massive and mostly likely nuclear. You can bet that the U.S. military already has planned responses to virtually any future terrorist attack. Unlike 9/11, retribution will be swift and deadly. Perhaps this is the reason we haven't had any terrorist attacks since 9/11.

[gg188]

Furthermore, the successful use of such weapons against seven U.S. cities might collapse the U.S. economy, discredit the U.S. government and demoralize the American people. Such an attack would also make good on the terrorist promise that the U.S. dollar will become absolutely worthless in short order.

If you look at the enormous economic cost resulting from 9/11 and 3,000 deaths---it would hardly take 7 cities x millions of deaths to collapse the U.S. and world economy. It would take a fraction of that to destabalize the globe and send the world into a second dark age (courtesy of the people who brought us the FIRST dark age.)

My fear is that history will be the story of how the USA failed after 9/11 to take the threat of the cult of islam seriously, and the nation and all civlization paid the price (just as history for the last 1 and 1/2 millenia tells the story of the failure of civlized people to deal with the savages on an unrelenting jihad that can end only with our deaths.)

I fear we will look back and realize---too late---what the HELL were we thinking when we were quibbling over "profiling" and torqued about "diversity" yadayada, when we could have been taking decisive action.

Perhaps THEN, after this next attack, we will have the will to go after Mecca, for example. But our children and grandchildren will cry for decades, why, oh why, did we not take both punitive and pre-emptive action both abroad and at home in the days, weeks and months following 9/11?

[knak]

nuclear weapon is set to detonate in a shipping container sitting at an anchorage terminal.

thanks, that really made MY day!

kelly in alaska (50 miles from there!!!)

[American Preservative]

grlfrnd pinged me to this thread, and since it mentions San Francisco, I'm pinging you all. : )

[BenLurkin]

>What they "have sufferred from the U.S." is nothing so far compared to what we have the ability to do.
> If they're smart they'll quit while they are behind.

[ladyinred]

Well if America is not sufficiently alarmed after 911 then I guess we never will be.

This certainly is alarming to me, thank you very much.

[WarSlut]

I wonder why so many discount the idea that the Islamofacists will hijack and dive-bomb more airliners. Airport screeners don't appear to be up to the task of stopping them.

I know the heroic actions of the men on Flight 93 give many hope that any attempt will be thwarted, but there was something exceptional about those people. The more likely scenario would be passengers paralyized by fear, life flashing before their eyes, unable to move. If the terrorists could simply prevent the passengers from talking amongst themselves (a larger crew would accomplish that), who would be willing to make the first move on their own? Most men wouldn't. I'd think the odds of finding a man who would on a half-empty plane would be remote.

These barbarians like to go with what works. Using hijacked planes as missiles worked. I imagine they'll try it again.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

When are they just going to kick all of these types out of America and Europe?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Arabs and Islamists are unrepentant braggarts. Take anything they say (oh, like, "Mother of All Battles") and discount by a factor of about 10 million to get to the truth. These people talk. And that's about all they can do. Arabs are the worst fighters the world has ever seen (next to maybe the French). They're also the biggest talkers.

If an Arab says he's going to kill you, it probably means he's going to steal that nickel you dropped on the pavement by accident.