 CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
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Re: Irresponsible As if the US ever had as much as Israel before 9/11/01. No attacks since 9/11 means nothing as there is no way to all prevent attacks - it WILL happen again and now it is even harder for the govt agencies to really work together since there are now more than 80 new agencies/committes working to the same 'goal' (that truly is not achievable). Nor can the govt come up with actual stats for how many acts the illegal (again - against the US constitution they are supposed to uphold) wiretaps has prevented any attack.
Of course the govt backing of terrorist leaders does not help as well (Hussein/The Shah of Iran/Marcos etc... anyone?). |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by CylonRed:Of course the govt backing of terrorist leaders does not help as well (Hussein/The Shah of Iran/Marcos etc... anyone?). Uhhh... If you think us backing the Shah of Iran was bad... you might want to look at what happened to that country after we stopped backing him.
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said by CylonRed:. . . No attacks since 9/11 means nothing as there is no way to all prevent attacks . . . I think one must go through some mental gymnastics to disprove the association: We agressively persued terrorists on their own turf (Afganistan & probably covertly in Pakistan) and they haven't attacked us her in 6+ years.
You're right, it can happen again and probably will someday. As a free society we're always somewhat vulnerable to a handful of people that want to plan violence. However, given their stated motivation to destroy western society and especially us, the rational conclusion is that their attacks were either foiled or prevented by disrupting their ability to plan & iniatiate such attacks, at least for the time-being. And as a resident of the DC-metro area, I hope the current trends continue. |
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PCDEC
join:2004-10-12
Allentown, PA | said by myokitis:...the rational conclusion is that their attacks were either foiled or prevented by disrupting their ability to plan & iniatiate such attacks... Just like they were before 9/11. But now we have less freedom...are wasting millions/billions more...to accomplish the same thing. All because one attack got thru. |
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