RE: Re: war pastiche

2001-09-14 Thread Max Sawicky
This flap about Bush in the WH surprises me. It's been in the media too. It's tantamount to saying that if you're in a foxhole, you are a wimp if you keep your head down. When B was in FL, planes had not been accounted for, and the plane that crashed in PA was headed straight for D.C. It would

Re: RE: Re: war pastiche

2001-09-14 Thread Jim Devine
Max wrote: This flap about Bush in the WH surprises me. It's been in the media too. It's tantamount to saying that if you're in a foxhole, you are a wimp if you keep your head down. When B was in FL, planes had not been accounted for, and the plane that crashed in PA was headed straight for

RE: Re: RE: Re: war pastiche

2001-09-14 Thread Max Sawicky
I don't understand the WH as target theory for the plane that hit the Pentagon. Apparently the plane was headed for the WH and turned to hit the Pentagon. I don't understand that either. But so far nobody disputes that the PA plane was headed straight for D.C. Why would a president with any

Re: Re: RE: Re: war pastiche

2001-09-14 Thread Tim Bousquet
The Pentagon is a better target than the White House in simple war terms, but then so isn't the NY Stock Exchange a better target than the WTC? I mean, even as a symbolic gesture? Or was the WTC something more than a simple office building, as I've always assumed? Could it be that the WTC was