Posted on 07/23/2002 11:41:09 AM PDT by thmiley
That was my point.People are already defining a 'new bigger better building' as a national landmark filled with thousands more people and businesses.......it will become a massive bulleye 'in the face' of terrorists.
I would much rather we get in their face on a battlefield in the ME.......put the fight on their soil. If we were to suddenly get smart and not let these Islamic/Arabs in our Country then that would be a different story but we all know thats not gonna happen..... they are here,they have the funding and would LOVE to take out a building meant to replace the ones they take pride in destroying.They were a target and took hits before I'm more than certain any replacements would suffer the same fate of attack until it comes down.
When you rephrase that into a coherent statement I will try to address it.
Nope. They were the antithesis of free enterprise. Government built at a time when there was no market for more commercial real estate. Private commercial real estate holders were hurt by the building of the WTC.
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
This shouldn't be about showing anybody anything, least of all Muslims. Fear is already ruling many things, and so it should. There's a healthy fear of another terrorist attack. If there wasn't, then nobody would bother with airport security or intelligence gathering, would they?
First of all, fear should be information, not authority.
Secondly, there isn't a healthy fear of another terrorist attack on the part of those in charge. They don't fear an attack or they wouldn't be fondling grandmothers and blondes while giving Ishmael and Mohamed free reign.
If you get hit by a car when crossing the road because you weren't paying attention, then hopefully you'll pay more attention and even cross at the lights. That's not letting fear rule you, that's being smart.
To continue your analogy, they surrender monkeys who don't want the new WTC to stick up have decided they don't need to cross the street anymore.
In the end, this will only end when the Muslims have been pacified, probably forcefully like the American Indians or the Japanese. Until then it doesn't matter how high or low we build our buildings.
As the old soldier says, if you're not afraid then your either lying or your stupid.
Yeah, but the old soldier means something entirely different with this statement than the draft dodger does.
In a heartbeat. Cowering to terrorists is no way to live. Plus, the view would be awesome.
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The problem isn't that our buildings were too big but rather that our retribution has been too timid. If we made these people truly suffer for what they had done it would be unlikely to be repeated.
They take out a building, we take out Medina. They take out another building, we nuke Mecca. We kill 1000 of them for every one of us and we subjugate their nations at gunpoint.
We have the power to break these people down and crush their dehumanized, spiritless remains under our boots. We just don't have the will. When we find it we can end terrorism and build buildings as tall as we damn well please.
Are you aware the tallest building in the world right now is in a muslim nation? This is a travesty.
Then the NY Port Authority should just put the land up for sale.
Since I don't get a chance to say, "No Thank You" to the guy collecting the federal taxes that WILL be used to rebuild this thing (and believe me, I would), I say build the hell out of it. At the very minimum, replace what was lost.
If an Islamist manages to fly another jet into another building, give the Transportation Security Czar a butterknife to spill his guts with.
I assume not only will you be waiting in line to rent it and occupy it but you are willing to pay enough so the cost of redevelopment can be fully recovered ... or were you expecting someone else to pay for a white elephant?
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