On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:21:29AM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: > Why? The 9/11 attack had been carefully planned months in advance. > How can you simply assume we'd be attacked again immediately? There's > really no evidence to support (nor reason to believe other than fear) > that we would.
Gautam said 1.5 years, so I don't see why you are arguing about months of planning, it is irrelevant to what Gautam claimed. I'd say that, given that it happened once, and given the ideology behind it, that if nothing was done to discourage it, that it would be a good bet that they WOULD do it again in 1.5 years (they already proved that they could pull it off, and one might reasonably assume that they would be encouraged by their success and feel more daring to try again). > There have been measures put in place which we hope will be effective > in the event of a terrorist attack. We have no evidence that one > has been attempted and it's folly to declare victory before your > precautions have been put to the test. Agreed. To claim otherwise is to let one's emotion or hero worship of certain leaders blind oneself to the real situation. I certainly think that a number of actions have been taken that will reduce the probability of a similar attack. But unfortunately, these insane extremist people can sometimes be quite resourceful and it seems to me quite likely that they may still find ways to do it again. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
