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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Well that explains much of your thinking process. Maybe you should be so lucky as to have some of your family members be among those who suffer death in the next big one, maybe you would change your tune after that. I know people who were killed in the World Trade Centers.
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I don't care if you knew everyone killed in the WTC? It has zero significance. That proves what? Zero. So a response chock full of personal attacks shows TheMercenary is intelligent - or just petty?
Back to the topic. Terrorist - a person who does something really quite small. But causes fear to replace logical thought among the population.
Since George Jr (an expert?) said 11 September was only terrorism, then TheMercenary never questioned it? 11 September was not terrorism. 11 September was a smoking gun that justified war - that exceeded a definition of terrorism. 11 September was sufficient to justify war. That is not terrorism.
The Atlantic Ocean off NY and NY is full of American ships sunk by German U-boats. And still that was not sufficient for war.
So why does George Jr call 11 September only terrorism? George Jr is only about "The Message". He cannot even provide what the troops need - a Strategic Objective - because "The Message" (also called spin or propaganda) is far more important to extremists. No wonder he labels 11 September as only terrorism.
11 September exceeded terrorism because it justified war - for the same reason that "Pearl Harbor" was not terrorism. Where did more die? On 7 December or on 11 September?
Meanwhile, something under 10 people were killed in my hometown on 11 September. I knew one. For a few weeks, I thought another victim was a friend from school. That first night, estimates from my hometown were about 50 dead. I went to school with some of the women shown on network TV walking Manhattan streets looking for lost ones. But that is only significant to TheMercenary who would post this petty irrelevance.
That is my emotion that you have no right to. I would never be so petty as to use that as a cheap shot - as TheMercenary has just done. But then logical thought has always been a problem for TheMercenary.