On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 3,000, even 10,000 people killed are a danger, but not an existential > danger to the United States of America. > > There was no threat that the country as a whole was in danger.
So shutting down air travel for three days was stupid? > We have done more damage to the American Way of Life than they did. We are worse than Al Qaeda? Is that because of the Patriot Act or American Idol? Maybe we should have waited for more deaths to react? What's the number? > And we took pretty good vengeance for their moves. > > (And no, I don't write off 3000 killed lightly. Nor do I write off the > greater number of our soldiers killed since then, nor the tens of > thousands of wounded.) > > It all still pales in numbers to the toll to Afghanistan population or > Iraqis, to talk about some pretty devastated places lately. Or even > the toll from the last major earthquake in China (possibly 100,000+ > dead?) Or Japan with the imminent nuclear meltdown they face on top of > the earthquake and tsunami. The cost of freedom is high but worth it. Natural disasters are not comparable to terrorist attacks. > They were never in our league, I feel. We gave them more legitimacy > than they earned. It's amazing how the whole terror thing works isn't it? . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335866 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
