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balderdash111 · 08-09-2004, 08:34 AM

I voted yes, but I think it would be a strategic mistake for them to do it.

I vote yes b/c notwithstanding all the security theater we can see in our daily lives, the reality is this:

we are still very unsecure.

Look around you: private aircraft, shipping, trucking, large crowds of people, unrestricted access to trains and subways... there are dozens of easy ways to attack this country, especially - and this is important - if you don't care about giving your life to take others, and especially if you can recruit people with clean records to carry out the operation.

The reality is this: unless we dramatically restructure the way our society works, attacks will always be fairly easy.

I think it would be a strategic mistake for anyone to carry out an attack for the reasons implictly expressed above: I think an attack would strenghten Bush's reelection campaign, not weaken it.

08-09-2004, 08:34 AM	#17 (permalink)
balderdash111 Psycho	I voted yes, but I think it would be a strategic mistake for them to do it. I vote yes b/c notwithstanding all the security theater we can see in our daily lives, the reality is this: we are still very unsecure. Look around you: private aircraft, shipping, trucking, large crowds of people, unrestricted access to trains and subways... there are dozens of easy ways to attack this country, especially - and this is important - if you don't care about giving your life to take others, and especially if you can recruit people with clean records to carry out the operation. The reality is this: unless we dramatically restructure the way our society works, attacks will always be fairly easy. I think it would be a strategic mistake for anyone to carry out an attack for the reasons implictly expressed above: I think an attack would strenghten Bush's reelection campaign, not weaken it.