9/11 thread

3 thoughts on “9/11 thread”

1. … we are in less danger because the only terrorist organization capable of wreaking that level of destruction is in complete disarray if not smashed. That makes us safer.

   Does this mean some other splinter group (or any other terrorist – keep in mind that they’re not all Islamic) is unable to strike? No. But 100% security is not possible, given the shifts in the political climate of both the USA and the world at large. I’d say it’s not even desirable, since that kind of security would come at the price of our civil liberties (as indeed it did during the Bush administration) and our Founding Fathers were quite fond of reminding us that death is preferable to losing liberty.

   But in the big picture, America is safer today than eight years ago. Yes, Bush and company deserve the bulk of the credit for that. I just don’t know if the price is worth it.

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2. Objectively, having stirred up the hornets’ nests of foreign AND domestic terrorism by going after them, the United States is MORE likely to be attacked.  Have to be clear here that this includes ANY attack on US personnel and representatives, not just attacks on US soil.  In the end, what matters is not where the attack occurs, so long as it ends up on MSM and gets in between our ears.

   However, the terrorist attack cycle is a long process (around 3 years for domestics, 7 for internationals due to distance from targets). Knowing this as a result of the last 8 years, we also know that preventing attacks is no longer really what counter-terrorism is about.  Those who are “keeping us safer” are not just SOFs “smoking out the bad guys and taking them out,” or “spooks” having fun with water and trashing our civil liberties.   In reality, the terrorist attack process is being defeated by the State Department PRTs interfering with recruitment in remote villages, or FEMA mitagators and National Guard CIP-MAA teams making our infrastructures more “resilient” and thus less attractive as targets.

   Bottom line, there is a greater likelihood that we’ll be attacked, but it’s less likely to matter as catastrophically as it did 8 years ago.

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3. for those that suffered loss on that day 8 years ago.  

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