On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Justin wrote: > On 2004-07-06T11:28:41-0700, Eric Cordian wrote: > > Sunder wrote: > > > Right, WTC as a target doesn't make any strategic sense. > > > Doesn't hitting a world financial center impede the funding of imperialism? > > Empirically, I don't think so. Since September 11th, funding to the > military and security industries have increased substantially through > DHS and military contracts. It may be that the only way out is through, > and that the only way to be free from Western Imperialism is to cause it > to strangle itself.
Precisely. They are doing to us what we did to the soviets: they making us spend ourselves right out of existence. > In the short term, however, terrorists have not > succeeded in getting our imperialist policies changed. > > 9/11 with Dubya at the helm can have only one result. Dubya at the helm can have only 1 result. 9/11 was just his cover. > > If you apply the same standards the US uses to classify dual use > > infrastructure, and organizations "linked to" the enemy, I think the > > WTC is pretty high on the target list. > > Yep. Even ignoring specific entities that officed in the WTC, it was an > effective target. When a government is in debt 70%+ of the GDP (2002 - > $10.4T), there's little distinction between private financial targets > and government targets. And this was a prime target. Financial disruption from *just* the tower collapses was significant across the economy as a whole: lost records, insurance claims, lawsuits, etc., exacted a very substantial loss against their enemy. > > The US bombed water treatment plants, electrical facilities, and > > bridges in Iraq. Certainly not military targets either. > > Each democratic government likes to flood the logos with the notion that > it only attacks military targets; it convinces citizens that their > government is humane, and helps to pacify the non-interventionists. > > In practice, intelligence is never accurate. Hitting only military > targets, even if that were the goal which is clearly not the case -- is > not possible. Nonetheless, the military *does* consider places like WTC to be legitimate *military* targets. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them." Osama Bin Laden