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Very good points. Thanks for the feedback. Those were intelligent
statements, I thank you for that.
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Subject: Re: MD: Sympathies
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> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 06:33:27PM -0700, rodrocks wrote:
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> > I think the term cowards is inaccurate. Cowards run from conflict, these
> > individuals created conflict-they died for whatever strange cause and
> > mindset they believed in.
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> I think your confusing the individual's with the group, you never see the
leaders suicide bombing anyone, they have other people for that
>
> > I don't think there is any justification for murdering thousands of
people,
> > but it is not something practically every nation on earth hasn't done at
one
> > time
> > or another. What makes this even more difficult to comprehend and punish
is
> > that more than likely this was not the act of a nation or country, but
> > rather demented individuals (demented-not cowardly) with a true agenda
of
> > disrupting America-in this, they succeeded. The monetary cost of this is
> > felt all over America with closings and disruption of air travel and and
on
> > and on-the damage is in the billions and billions of dollars and affects
far
> > more than the physical targets.
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> more than just the US too, cananda and the UK both grounded all flights.
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> > The only way you can gurad against this type of attack is with inside
> > knowledge-espionage-and indeed, many similar plans have been stopped
cold in
> > that fashion.
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> you should read carlos hathaway(i think thats the names) ex cia, who wrote
about the changing face of intel gathering, good statements about human
inteligence. which is pretty much what you hear other people(senators and
what not) quoting today.
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> > What makes it more difficult to punish those responsible is the fact
that as
> > I write this, probably half of them are already dead-killed in their own
act
> > of suicide. Suicide itself is a cowardly act, but dying for what one
> > believes in is not. Demented-Definitely Cowardly-Definitely Not
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> ah, but it is suicide, and they die for what they believe in poorly in
most cases, in this one incident they had to be on the planes of course but
in many of the other suicide attacks and bombings you really have much less
effec than a well planned attack on a source. a cowards way of pretending to
be big and important.
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