--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@...> wrote: > > It's the economy, stupid!
And even though he was a near-psychotic religious fanatic madman, it's worth remembering that the person who made the US economy what it is today was just killed. His methods may have been despicable, but his plan worked like gangbusters. America overreacted, gave in to their fear and hatred, and went fuckin' crazy. They blew all the good will they had in the world on vengeance, blew most of their money on two sad wars, pissed away their rights at home, and basic- ally pissed away their whole country. If a sane man had been President when 9/11 happened, none of this would have happened. The sane President would have seen 9/11 as the trap it was and found some way to appease the "Gotta strike back" mentality of Americans without losing the respect of the rest of the world, and allowing the country to spend its way into the poorhouse. The sad thing is that terrorism works. It worked when that word was first coined to describe the Irgun and the Haganah in Palestine, when they were blowing up buildings to create Israel, it worked in North Africa and Vietnam when they wanted free of the French, and sadly it still works. Fear is a powerful motivator, one that seems to physiologically cut off the flow of blood to the brain, and renders the fearful people stupid. Osama Bin Laden understood that. Yes, he was a madman, but he knew America far better than it knows itself.
